Labs and Facilities

The Department has the following laboratories encompassing and enriching the range of academic disciplines in which it has qualified faculty: A brief introduction to the facilities in each laboratory is presented in the following paragraphs:

Pakistan Research Reactor-I (PARR-I)

PARR-I is a research reactor located at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH). It was started in 1965 at 5MW and later was upgraded to 10MW in 2000. Since criticality, PARR-I has rendered invaluable services in the training of manpower, production of radioisotopes and as a source of neutrons and gamma radiation for basic and applied research. PIEAS students use this important facility of performing experiments and doing research in nuclear engineering.

Pakistan Research Reactor-II (PARR-II)

PARR-II is the on campus MNSR type research reactor of PIEAS. It has been a valuable asset for PIEAS graduates for the last three decades. Primary purpose of PARR-II is training and research. Due to its inherent safety features, it is also used fearlessly for the initial training of the reactor operators. Students of MS Nuclear engineering perform experiments related to reactor operation and control as a compulsory part of their curriculum. Researchers used its irradiation facilities in their neutron activation analysis.

Advanced Computational Reactor Analysis Laboratory (ACRE)

ACRE Laboratory is a state of art laboratory containing latest computational resources for lengthy and cumbersome calculations involved in nuclear reactor analysis & design, nuclear reactor safety, thermal hydraulics, plasma physics, radiation shielding, seismology and environmental engineering. It contains work stations with Windows and Linux operating system connected to servers for storage solution. It also will soon add Cluster computing (36 nodes) and ALTIX system to its resource list. This hardware is equipped with latest computational tools for reactor engineering calculations.

Health Physics Laboratory

The basic purpose of the health physics laboratory is to ensure the safety of working personnel within safe limits in radiation environment. Health physics laboratory has all the latest equipment including pocket dosimeters, personal radiation monitors, survey meters, contamination monitors and TLD system for the essential training of students and radiation workers in the field of radiation safety. The experiments span a broad spectrum from basic training to applied research in environmental dose assessment and risk analysis.

Radiation Shielding Laboratory

The Radiation shielding laboratory was established to have a practical sense of radiation safety by means of shielding. It was upgraded to become an integral part of MS Nuclear Engineering curriculum. It provides facilities from basic training to applied research in the field of Shield Design including nuclear cross section measurement, attenuation and albedo calculations. In addition to that the facilities for the study of Neutron diffusion parameters, alpha and fission fragment spectroscopy are available.

PWR Training Simulator

Department of nuclear engineering has a PWR simulator that provides an opportunity to MS Nuclear Engineering students to step into the shoes of a reactor operator. Simulator helps students in understanding of various systems of nuclear power plant. Real time data can be seen and stored on digital computer for further analysis. The sequence of events in case of accidents such as reactor trip, turbine trip, and loss of coolant can be simulated.

Environmental Monitoring Laboratory

This lab possesses the following experimental and analysis equipment:

	Air sampler
	Incubator
	Conductivity and pH meters
	Ion selective electrode
	Field kit for water analysis UV-VIS spectrophotometer
	Distillation unit
	Oxygen analyzer
	Pressure decomposition container

Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPS) Characterization and Control Laboratory

HAPS laboratory project has been approved by the HEC and civil work is in progress.

Last Updated: 19 March 2014