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Current academic programmes:

                                                    BCLT offers four years bachelor degrees in three courses namely 1:-B.Sc.technology in leather ,2:-B.Sc.technology in leather product , 3:-B.Sc.technology in footwear  under the university of Dhaka.

 Location and physical construction:

                                                     Bangladesh college of leather technology is located at 44-50,Hfzaribagh (near the BDR gate no.5)in the heart of Dhaka, surrounding by the leather manufacturing units. Travel can be made by local transports, bike ,car etc.

Spread over around 13.5 acres of land the college has four academic and administrative buildings including well equipped finishing department for leather processing, footwear and leather products making units, auditorium, lecture theater ,enough class rooms, world standard laboratories, computer lab, canteen, office of student union, library. New academic building and wet blue section are under construction.

Faculty members & officials:

                                               The faculty consists of distinguished scholars with proved teaching & recherché excellence. The number of teaching staffs are 30,four of them having doctorate degrees / post doctoral experience from abroad , 9 are studying in ENGLAND and INDIA for PhD and postgraduate degrees.The number of non teaching stuff is 110.

 Existing number of students:

   Instrumental and testing facilities :                        

 Physical and Chemical testing facilities available in BCLT

A. Facilities for Physical testing

1. Measuring of density

2. Measurement tensile strength and %Elongation at break.

3. Measurement of stitch Tear strength.

4. Measurement of Tongue tears strength.

5. Measurement of distention and strength of grain by the Ball burst test.

6. Dynamic water proof test

7. Measurement of absorption of water vapour.

8. Measurement of water vapour permeability.

9. Measurement of resistance to grain cracking.

10. Measurement of electric conductivity

11. Measurement of abrasion resistance of sole, bottom and upper leather.

12. Measurement of flexing endurance test

13. Measurement of fiber board flexing test

14. Measurement of flexing and stretching of upper materials.

15. Measurement of stiffness

16. Measurement ofrub fastness

17. Measurement of break/peppiness

18. Measurement of heat resistance test of finish film.

19. Measurement of wrinkle with wrinkle meter.

20. Measurement of heel fatigue

21. Measurement of safety boot impact ness.

22. Measurement of softness of garments leather.

B. Facilities for Chemical testing

1. Determination of organic and inorganic substance of leather.

2. Determination of ash and water insoluble mineral.

3. Determination of cromium content.

4. Determination of nitrogen , ammonium and skin substance .

5. Determination of Ph value.

6. Determination of vegetable tanning materials and syntans.

7. Determination of acid combined with chromium.

8. Analysis of alkaline liquors.

9. Determination of sulphide in all type of liquors

10. Determination of volatile metal.

11. Determination of composition of leather.

12. Determination of moister of hide powder.

13. Analysis of sodium sulphide.

14. Determination of chromium(III).

15. Determination of aluminum.

16. Determination of cromic oxide

17. Determination of pH of hide powder.

18. Determination of silicon.

19. Determination of chloride ness of all types of liquor.

20. Determination of sulphur dioxide in bleaching extracts.

C. Facilities for environmental analysis

1. Determination of BOD.

2. Determination of COD.

3. Determination of total dissolved solid.

4. Determination of suspended solid.

5. Determination of turbidity.

6. Determination of Coliform content.

7. Determination of total organic carbon.

8. Photometric determination of Chromium (VI).

9. Determination of inorganic carbon.

D. Facilities for Dyeing & Finishing

1. Determination of dye class.

2. Determination of pure dye content.

3. Testing of homogeneity.

4. Determination of solubility.

5. Strength of dye solubility.

6. Stability of dye to acids.

7. Fastness to acids.

8. Fastness to dry cleaning.

9. Fastness to washing.

10. Fastness to water.

11. Fastness to perspiration.

12. Fastness to light.

13. Fastness to dry & wet rubbing.

14. Fastness to solvents.

15. Finish film adhesion fastness test.

16. Dyes chromatography.

17. Extinction co-efficient of dye.

E. Facilities for Microbiological & Biotechnological testing

1. High power video camera microscopic system

2. Fluoresce microscope.

3. Scanning electron microscope.

4. Coli form testing kits

F.Analytical Chemical Analysis using following instrument:

1. High Performance Liquid Chromatography(HPLC)

2. High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC).

3. Gas Chromatography with Mass Selective Detector(GC-MS)

4. Fourier Transform Infrated Spectroscopy(FT-IR)

5. C.H.O.S-Analyzer.

6. Amino Acid Analyzer.

7. Deferential Scanning Calorimeters.(DSC).

8. Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS).

9. Particle size analyzer.

10. Digital titroprocessor.

11. Kerlfischer titroprocessor.

12. Tensiometer.

13. Conductivity meter.

14. Polarometric analyzer.

15. Digital pH meter.

16. Various types of SARTA testing equipment.

17. Auto spray.

18. Shoe master

  19.CAD/CAM.