•The Process Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department was established for the intention of  providing scientific and technical backup and support to the researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs,    industries and farmers in the area of processing of medicinal and aromatic plants.

•The department is working on extraction and isolation of lead molecules for bioactive studies, pilot scale evaluation of new varieties, up scaling of process technologies for techno economic evaluations, designing of extraction and distillation units for farmers, industries and entrepreneurs and transferring of technologies to the industries.

•The department is also doing R&D on value added bio-chemicals production from spent aromatic (lignocellulosic) biomasses.