IAU Environmental Engineering Laboratory
The IAU Environmental Engineering Laboratory is a teaching & research facility that affords students pro-active prospects to explore for all kinds of fields comprising of water treatment, solid waste, wastewater treatment, and air-pollution control. Our IAU comprises of nine laboratories with necessary sufficient space, instrumentation, and other dedicated devices for laboratory courses offered in the undergraduate program: water chemistry, environmental microbiology, physical and chemical processes, and microbiological processes, in addition to the usual analytical equipment and other pilot-scale treatment modules. Students in the laboratory courses too have entree to the research workroom's devices when highly advanced critical practices are required. Students also gain skill to computer based control techniques and other software schemes like data-acquisition practices through their research studies.
Abundant joint and interdisciplinary ventures increase the list of contributions as a faculty, staff and students from several specialisms work as research teams on various funded research projects within the department, outside departments & within other universities or firms inside the kingdom (KSA). Student creativity is fortified in apprehending and steering research, and in communicating outcomes, and student contribution in research projects is important to us. The size and multiplicity of the research program increase classroom teaching and arouse a level of exhilaration for education through research that is sporadic.
Contemporary research covers of laboratory and field lessons on the following summed up area cited below:
- Physical, chemical and biological procedures and mechanisms accountable for the proclamation, conveyance, alteration and preservation of pollutants.
- Pollutant control procedures (predominantly the exclusion of trace& toxins or pollutants).
- Basic ideologies of physical, chemical and biological conduct knowhows for water, wastewater and solid wastes scums or residues from different sources.
- Pollutant control measures for Air, other contaminants removal from air & its monitoring( gases, Particulate matters & Meteorological parameters etc.).
Air Pollution Control Lab
Supervisor
Gulraiz Khan
Email: gkhan@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 2nd Building
Equipment/Service
- Multi Cyclone System
- Venturi Scrubber System
- Spray Chamber System
- Pulsed-Jet Bag Filter System
- Electrostatic Precipitator System
Air Pollution Lab
Supervisor
Mohammad Saood Manzar
Email: msmanzar@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 3rd Floor
Equipment/Service
- Dichotomous Fine (PM2.5) and Coarse (PM10-2.5) Particulate Sampler - Kimoto
- Mass Flow Controlled PUF High Volume Air Sampler - Tisch
- TSP and PM10 High Volume Sampler - Tisch
- Handheld Airborne Particle Counter - Met One HHPC, Hach
- Laser Aerosol Spectrometer – Grimm
- Aethalometer (Elemental Carbon & Black Carbon) - Magee Scientific
- Wireless Meteorology Station – Davis Vantage Pro +
- VOCs Monitor - VRAE system
- Gas Detector - Dräger X-am
- Gas Monitor with CO2, Pressure, and Light Intensity Probes – Testo
- Multi Gas Monitor - PGM-7800 & 7840 - VRAE
- Ozone Analyzer - Ecotech Serinus 10
- Ambient Air Analyzer - Thermo Scientific
- Canister Air Sampler - Tisch Environmental
- TUFF Personal Sampling Pumps - Casella
- Coriolis µ Biological Air Sampler – Bertin
- Bio-Culture Sampler - Buck
- Compact Optical Tachometer - A2102 Advent
- Automatic Precipitation/Rain Sampler (Collector) - Eigenbrodt
- pH & Conductivity Meter – Consort
- Filtration System with Vacuum Pump - Nalgene
- Weighing Micro Analytical Balance - BM-22 AND
- Centrifuge - Hermle Z 206 A
- Sonicator - Q-sonica
- Desiccator
Biological Processes Lab
Supervisors
Mohammad Saood Manzar
Email: msmanzar@iau.edu.sa
Aleem Qureshi
Email: aqureshi@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 1st Floor
Equipment/Service
- Bioreactor - New Brunswich
- Advanced Oxidation
- Anaerobic Water Treatment
- Automated Water Filtration Pilot Plant
- Automated and Computerized Activated Sludge Sewage Treatment Pilot Plant
- Viscometer
- Centrifuge
- Pump Drive – 5201, Heidolph
- Masterflex Digi Staltic Pump Drive - Cole Parmer
- Digital Balance
- Dessicator
Environmental Analysis Lab
Supervisors
Mohammad Hisham Barghouthi
Email: mhbarghouthi@iau.edu.sa
Iehab Abdelilah Mohamed
Email: iamohamed@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 3rd Floor
Equipment/Service
- Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (Flame & Graphite Furnace & Hydride Generator Units - ICE-3000 Series, Thermo Scientific
- Inductively Coupled Plasma – OES Activa S, Horiba
- Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) - 7700 x, Agilent Technologies
- UV VIS Spectrophotometer
- FTIR, Smart Omni Transmission, Analytik Jena
- Surface Area and Pore Size analyzer with Liquid Nitrogen Dewar - NOVA 1200 e, Quantachrome Instruments
- Microwave Digestion System - Anton Paar
- Solvent Extraction Tubes - Anton Paar
- Ultra-Pure Water System - PureLab-ELGA
- Distilled Water Unit – Aquatron
- Digital Balance
- Hot Plate Stirrers
- Desiccator for Drying/Storage
Environmental Chemistry Lab
Supervisor
Mohammad Saood Manzar
Email: msmanzar@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 1st Floor
Equipment/Service
- Multi-Parameter Meter - pH, Conductivity, Optical Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, and ISE - HQ440D Laboratory Dual Input, Hach
- Drying and Heating Oven - E28 series, Binder
- Muffle Furnace - Nabertherm
- Digital Balance
- Hot Plate Stirrers
- UV VIS Spectrophotometer – DR6000, Hach
- Dissolved Oxygen Meter - Session 8, Hach
- COD Reactor, Single Block - DRB 200, Hach
- Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) Oxitop Box - 208432, WTW
- Kjeldahl Steam Distillation Unit – Behr
- Automatic Kjeldahl Distillation Unit - VELP Scientifica
- Titrator with Stirrer – 801, Metrohm
- Vacuum Filtration System – VWR
- Desiccator for Drying/Storage– Sicco, Bohlender
Environmental Microbiology Lab
Supervisor
Aleem Qureshi
Email: aqureshi@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 1st Floor
Equipment/Service
- Microscope - Micros Austria
- Fluorescence Microscope - Evos FL
- Coriolis µ Biological A`ir Sampler – Bertin
- Colony Counter - IUL Instruments
- Pressure Sterilizers
- Hot Air Oven - Binder
- Autoclave - Brinkmann
- Incubators - Fisher Scientific and Thermo Scientific
- Water Bath - Thermo Scientific
- Incufridge - Revolutionary Science
- Distilled Water Apparatus - Elga
- Dispenser - IBS Integra Biosciences
- Ice Making Machine
- Orbital Shaker – Benchmark
- Centrifuge
- UV/Vis Spectrophotometer - Specord 210 plus, Analytik Jena
- Vacuum Pressure Station - Barnant
- Digital Balance - Aeadam
Solid Waste Lab
Supervisor
Iehab Abdelilah Mohamed
Email: iamohamed@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 3rd Floor
Equipment/Service
- Toxicity Characteristic Leaching (TCLP)
- Synthetic Precipitation Leaching (SPLP)
- CHNS Element Analyzer
- Total Organic Carbon Analyzer
- Furnace
- Centrifuge
- Digital Balance
- Hot Plate Stirrers
- Desiccator for Drying/Storage
Unit Operations Lab
Supervisor
Gulraiz Khan
Email: gkhan@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 2nd Building
Equipment/Service
- Ion Exchange, Demonstration Unit
- Chemical Reactor Trainer
- Fixed Bed Catalysis with Flow Injection Analysis
- Reverse Osmosis
- Adsorptive Air Drying
- Precipitation and Flocculation
- Dissolved Air Flotation
- Zetasizer Nano Range - Malvern
Wastewater/Organic Analysis Lab
Supervisors
Iehab Abdelilah Mohamed
Email: iamohamed@iau.edu.sa
Mohammad Saood Manzar
Email: msmanzar@iau.edu.sa
Location: College of Engineering, 3rd Floor
Equipment/Service
- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) - Ultimate 3000 Dionex, Thermo Scientific
- Liquid Chromatography (LC) – Shimadzu
- Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) - 7890/5975, Agilent
- Liquid Scintillation Counter - HIDEX 300 SL
- Automatic Water/Wastewater Sampler - Global Water
- Heater - Electrothermal
- Furnace
- Water Bath - Clifton
- Shaker - Stuart/VWR
- Centrifuge - Hettich
- RotaVap – Heidolph
- Soxtec Extraction Unit- Semi automatic, Foss
- Pump - Digi-Static, Masterflex
- Weighing Balance - Sartorious
- Desiccator
- HPLC unit
