Research Equipments
Electrochemical Workstation (potentiostat)
What is the usefulness?
The electrochemical workstation is an important piece of equipment that is usually designed for electrochemical measurements. Because of its multipurpose applicability the instrument is widely used in the research fields of chemistry, physics, pharmacy, material science, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and so on.
What can be done using the equipment?
The instrument can be used for analyzing the devices for applications like supercapacitor, battery, HER, OER, ORR, electrochemical sensing, etc.
What are the Specifications?
Model: CORETEST CS350M
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
Ultrapure water system
What is the usefulness?
Normal tap water has many minerals and impurities. In many scientific experiment pure water is essential. This locally build low-cost water filtration system is serving Pharmacy department, GEB department and MPS department.
What can be done using the equipment?
We use the normal water as input and the RO filter can produce water with TDS less than 5 ppm and the di-ionisation filer removes almost all the ions and can deliver ultrapure water with TDS less than 3 ppm
What are the Specifications?
The locally assembled machine can deliver minimum 75 litre ultrapure water with as low as 3 ppm (parts per million) TDS . It also can provide di-ionised water
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-833
Laser Distance Meter
What is the usefulness?
We so not need to carry any measuring tape with us anymore. With this handheld device one can measure the length, area volume of a room in a second precisely.
We also can measure the size of the tables and benches with it.
What can be done using the equipment?
Precise (up to 0.5 mm) measurement of length (up to 40 m( can be taken with this laser distance meter.
What are the Specifications?
Brand: leyueyuan
Manufacturer: Shinydeal
Weight: 160 gm
Battery: 2 AAA
Maximum Range: 40 m/131 ft
Display: Digital (4 line)
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-460
Non-contact infrared thermometer
What is the usefulness?
Sometimes it is necessary to measure the temperature of a furnace, freezer, oven etc. It is not possible to place a traditional thermometer to these inaccessible places. One can easily use non-contact thermometer to measure temperatures in such cases.
What can be done using the equipment?
Unlike traditional thermometer, non-contact infrared thermometers can measure temperature from a distance.
What are the Specifications?
Brand: Etekcity
Range: -500C to +5500 C
Accuracy: ±2C
Display: Digital
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-560
Filtration system with pump
What is the usefulness?
One can filter very fine grains from a solution at reasonably faster time.
What can be done using the equipment?
For filtration of fine particles glass filters are often use. Because of the very fine pore size, they are very slow. When we add a vacuum pump, the filtration process becomes faster.
What are the Specifications?
Pump: 0.5 hp
Filter: Glass filter
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
Tube furnace with gas connection
What is the usefulness?
To produce bio-char samples.
What can be done using the equipment?
When we need to pirolyse/burn something at high temperature, we can use this oven.
If inert condition is needed, we can use nitrogen gas/helium gas to ensure it.
What are the Specifications?
Temperature range: 1400C
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
Water Quality Test Meter TDS PH EC
What is the usefulness?
To check the quality of any water we use this device. We also use it to check the quality of our own ultrapure water filter to check if any maintenance of the filtration system is necessary.
What can be done using the equipment?
It can measure the pH , electric conductivity and TDS of water.
What are the Specifications?
Brand: Pancellent
Weight:190 gm
Range: 0-990 ppm
Display: Digital
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-560
Electric Oven (Convection)
Temperature; up to 3000C
What is the usefulness?
Some chemical reactions occur at high temperature. We place samples at reaction chambers and place these in high temperature oven for the reactions to occur.
What can be done using the equipment?
Chemical reactions
What are the Specifications?
Temperature; up to 300C
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
Electric dryer with vacuum pump
What is the usefulness?
When a compound is produced after reaction, often we need to filer it from a liquid solution. To dry out samples we can use this drier. The vacuum pump can speed up the drying process.
What can be done using the equipment?
Drying wet samples
What are the Specifications?
Temperature: up to 100C
Location
Located in Room: Block-C-802
Sonicator bath
What is the usefulness?
High frequency (f>40 kHz) sound waves can be used to clean small equipments. Ultrasound waves also can be used for some chemical reactions. .
What can be done using the equipment?
Cleaning, chemical reaction
What are the Specifications?
Ultrasound bath
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
Magnetic stirrer
What is the usefulness?
Solving sparingly soluble substances in solvents.
What can be done using the equipment?
Sometimes to solve a sparingly soluble substance in a solvent we need to stir it for prolonged time. Magnetic stirrer can do it with the use of a magnet and a magnetic field.
What is the usefulness?
4 point, analog
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
2 Beam laser leveler
What is the usefulness?
Traditional spirit levels are not very precise. With laser level one can at the same time level a work bench/table more precisely. It also can draw an accurate vertical level line.
What can be done using the equipment?
Produce horizontal and vertical laser beam with accuracy of 0.5C or less
Brand: Hilda
What is the usefulness?
Beam : 2
Battery: 2 AA
Wavelength : 510 nm
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-560
Precision Balance
What is the usefulness?
In a reaction often we need to use precise amount of reactants or need to measure the amount of product precisely. This can be achieved with Shimadzu precision balance
What can be done using the equipment?
Measure the weight of a sample very accurately.
What are the Specifications?
Brand: Shimadzu
Precision: 0.01 mg
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
Multimeter (with non-contact voltage detection)
What is the usefulness?
Test equipments for faults and for detection of live wires.
What can be done using the equipment?
Measures Resistance, voltage, current
What are the Specifications?
Display: Digital
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-560
UV spectrometer
What is the usefulness?
UV spectrometer uses as a detection tool to analyse a sample
What can be done using the equipment?
Analysis of sample
What are the Specifications?
With UV chamber an software
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
Electrochemical work station
What is the usefulness?
When we produce a new material, we can test its different electrical properties to check its novelty.
What can be done using the equipment?
Testing electric properties of a material
What are the Specifications?
Brand: Corrtest
Location
Located in Room: FUB-804
2 Desktop Computers
What can be done using the equipment?
Computation intensive work
What are the Specifications?
Processor: Intel Core i9 13th Gen. -13900K Socket: LGA1700
Motherboard MSI: Pro B760M-A, DDR5 Dual Memory -13th Gen. With Wi-Fi
RAM: DDR5 16GB RAM 5200BUS WITH HITSING
HD: SSD, Transcend NME 500GB.
Monitor: Dell 22 Inch Full HD VGA & HDMI Port -SE2222H
Location
Located in Room: Block-C-536
Pyranometer and shadow ring
What can be done using the equipment?
To measure GHI and DHI
What are the Specifications?
2x Pyranometer (MS – 40S) including 10m Cable - Connector, Mounting accessories,
Mounting Screws, Short Instruction Manual and Calibration Certificate As Per ISO 9847
1x Shadow Ring (Make : Schelt, Model : PSR-01
(detailed standard specs available in manufacturer datasheet)
Location
Located in Room: Block-C-536
2 laptop computers
What is the usefulness?
The computational tool developed in this project using this equipment will help the researchers to gain more insight into the program outcomes attainment calculation algorithm, which will enhance students’ learning outcomes.
What can be done using the equipment?
Computational tool development for the project titled “ Performance Evaluation of Outcomes Based Undergraduate Engineering Programs – A Case Study of BSc in EEE program at East West University”
What are the Specifications?
HP 250 G9/Intel Core i5-1235U (12M
Cache, upto 4.40 GHz)/8GB
DDR4/512GB SSD/Intel UHD
Graphics/15.6" FHD/HD Camera/Wi-
Fi/Bluetooth/LAN/Free DOS/Silver/ 03
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-536
Semi-Automatic Chemistry Analyzer
What is the usefulness?
This equipment can work with smaller sample volumes, which can be especially important when dealing with mice blood and its serum. It is also a versatile and cost-effective equipment.
What can be done using the equipment?
It can conduct biochemical analyses on various biological specimens such as blood, serum, plasma, and urine of experimental mice. For example, it can be used to measure the level of glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, and essential electrolytes such as sodium and potassium in the blood. Additionally, it can be employed for a wide range of diagnostic tests, including Liver Function Tests, Kidney Function Tests, Lipid Profile assessments, and Electrolyte Analysis, among others.
What is the usefulness?
Model: BTS 350 Origin: BioSystem, Spain
OPTICAL SYSTEMS: Wavelengths: 340, 405, 505, 535, 560, 600, 635, 670 nm
THERMOSTAT SYSTEM: Peltier system from 25-40C
FLUIDIC SYSTEM: Continuous flow system with peristaltic pump.
Sipping volume can be programmed from 100 μl to 5 ml
CUVETTES: Flow Cuvette: 18 μl , Removable Cuvette: macro, semi-micro and micro, Screen: 320 x 240 px, LCD
Location
Located in Room: Block-C-833
Deep /Chest Singer Freezer
What is the usefulness?
Material can be used for a long time without compromised it quality. Essential for research.
What can be done using the equipment?
It can be used to store samples, specimens, or temperature-sensitive materials of research project.
What are the Specifications?
Model: Singer-BD-380-GL-GY 380 L
380 Ltr chest Freezer,
Digital Control panel,
Sliding Glass Door,
Antibacterial Gasket Door,
Long Lasting Wired Basket,
Quick Freezing Capacity,
Grey Color Adjustable Thermostat for Temperature Control.
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-723
Walton Refrigerator
What is the usefulness?
Laboratory refrigerators are essential for preserving the integrity and viability of stored materials, as well as assuring their safety and contributing to correct experimental results and research outcomes in laboratory settings.
What can be done using the equipment?
This equipment is used in the laboratory with the function of refrigerating, preserving and storing reagents, culture media, biological and bacterial samples, among others. This equipment provides reliable cooling and stable temperature.
What are the Specifications?
Model: WNH-3H6-0102
Type: Non-Frost
- HCFC free: Cyclopentane
- Gross Volume: 386 Ltr
- Net Volume: 328 Ltr
- Refrigerant: R600a
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-723
Micropipette
What is the usefulness?
Measurement of a precise volume of solutions, reagents, chemicals, buffers, etc.
What can be done using the equipment?
Micropipettes are common laboratory instrument used to measure small amounts of liquids with a volume range between 1 and 1000 µl. A micropipette is also used to transfer a precise amount of fluid from one container to another.
What are the Specifications?
0.5 -10 µl
5-100 µl
100-1000 µl
Location
Located in Room: Block-B-802
Vivaspin-20 centrifugal concentrator
What is the usefulness?
It is very useful to concentrate the enzymes or proteins in a large volume of solution.
What can be done using the equipment?
Vivaspin-20 centrifugal devices allow rapid concentration of protein and nanoparticle samples up to 20 ml in volume.
What are the Specifications?
- Polycarbonate housing
- polyether sulfone membrane
- MWCO 50 kDa
Location
Located in Room: Block-B-802
Refrigerator
What is the usefulness?
Cultures of microorganisms, chemicals and reagents etc. can be stored in lower temperatures and even in frozen conditions according to necessity.
What can be done using the equipment?
Materials can be preserved under temperature conditions provided by the equipment.
What are the Specifications?
Brand Name: Samsung
Model: RT-27HAR7DS8/D3
Location: EWU, Block D, Room: 625
Location
Located in Room: Block-B-802
Anaerobic jar/Carbon dioxide jar
What is the usefulness?
Growth and reproduction of anerobic microorganisms can be done.
What can be done using the equipment?
Anerobic environment can be created.
What are the Specifications?
Anaerobic Jar 2.5L (holds up to 12 Plates) without pressure gauge.
Size: 2.5 Liter
Location
Located in Room: Block-D-723