INDIA,CENTRAL LEATHER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Surianarayanan M Vijayaraghavan R Raghavan K V India,Central Leather Research Institute Indian Institute of Chemical Technology... 

Rajamani, S., Generation of hazardous sluge from tannery effluent treatment plants disposal problems in India, Central Leather Research Institute, India. 

The work presented in this chapter was in part supported by the grant received from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, and Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai, India. The author is thankful to Prof. P. K. Chattaraj for his collaboration and kind invitation to write this chapter. The author is grateful Dr. R. Parthasarathi, Dr. J. Padmanabhan, Mr. M. Elango, Dr. U. Sarkar, Mr. D. Roy, Mr. S. Sundar Raman, Mr. R. Vijayaraj, Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan, and others for their scientific contributions and help. 

Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Madras, India... 

Chemical Laboratory, Central Leather Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Adyar, Chennai, 600 020 India. 

Microbiology Division, Central Leather Research Institute (Couneil of Seientifie and Industrial Researeh), Adyar, Chennai-600020, Tamil Nadu, India. 

He has held various levels of scientific positions in three national laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) of India. He was appointed as the Director of Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai in 1994, and in 1996 he took over the Directorship of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. On successful completion of this tenure, he was appointed as the Chairman of Recruitment and Assessment Centre of DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India in May 2004. In addition. Dr. Raghaven chairs scientific committees of public and private sector bodies on clean technologies, catalytic ethanol reforming, biorefining, and allied areas. 

It is my considerable pleasure to offer my thanks to all the authors for their wonderfiil contributions and the publishers for the help in developing the book. I thank my family for their help in bringing out this book. I also would like to thank my colleague and friend. Dr. Narasimhaswamy (Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India), who introduced me to this exciting field of research that has lead to the development of this book. 

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