Milestones:

Central Fuel Research Institute (CFRI) -1946,

Central Mining Research Institute -1956,

CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research-2007

Core R&D Strengths:-

1. Coal and Non-coal Mines, and Civil Sector
2. Fuel Sector
3. Environmental Management
4. Testing, Analysis and Calibration Services

Unique Facilities:-

1. National facilities for FLP, Intrinsic Safety, Explosive & Mining safety equipment testing.
2. Testing facilities for coal & rock properties, environmental parameters, coal processing, monitoring of U/G mine’s geo-mining conditions.
3. High temperature & pressure single tube fixed bed reactor, & pilot plants for coal processing.
4. High performance computing for large scale geo-mining modeling and simulation
5. Rock-Eval 6 apparatus for source rock evaluation
6. Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
7. MTS 815.02 ROCK TESTING SYSTEM
8. Coal-to-liquid plant