School of Interdisciplinary Engineering & Sciences

Advanced Integrated Energy Lab

PI: Dr Abeera Ayaz Ansari 

Serving as Assistant Professor at USPCAS-E, Dr Abeera holds BE in Environmental Engineering and MS in Energy Systems Engineering from NUST. She later pursued PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, with specialization in novel Oxygenic Photogranule (OPG) biotechnology for energy-efficient wastewater treatment and bioenergy production.

  

Her research interests include waste-to-energy, climate change and algal technologies for biofuel and wastewater treatment.

2nd PI: Dr Muhammad Yousif –

Received the bachelor, master and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad, Pakistan, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China, and Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai (SJTU), China in 2012, 2014 and 2019 respectively. 

He is currently an Assistant Professor with U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. His main research interests include power systems optimization, microgrid, distributed generation, and dispatch algorithms.

Lab Highlights:

AIEL aims to conduct research on integrated energy systems. The lab envisions to:

– Facilitate students/faculty in designing, simulating, developing, and testing hybrid energy prototypes to ensure energy-efficient and economic performance levels to combat growing energy concerns.

–   Promote field testing to determine the practicality of designed prototypes.

– Establish collaborations with other SINES laboratories to boost multidisciplinary research.

– Capacity building in the field of integrated energy systems and solutions.

Lab Capabilities:

  •       Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems 

  •       OPG-based Bioreactors

  •       Testing and Performance Evaluation of Solar PV Systems

  •       Light Microscopy

  •      Capacity Building on Integrated and Smart Energy Systems

List of equipment/Resources: 

  •          3D Printer

  •          Solar PV training Kit

  •          Solar PV Module

  •          Energy Harmonic analyzer

  •          High-speed homogenizer

  •          Microscope with camera

  •          Overhead stirrers

  •          Refrigerator

  •          Vaccum Filtration Assembly

  •          Portable devices including DO meter, pH meter and Lux meter

  •          Data loggers

  •          Installed Softwares: Electrical Transient Analyzer Program (ETAP), IPSEpro, Trnsys, Polysun, Markal times, Ansys         Fluent (CFD), LabVIEW, MATLAB, Simulink, RETScreen, SAM, and Gaussian 9 Computational Chemistry Code.

Projects Undertaken:

     National

  • “Reclamation of Industrial Wastewater Using Novel Aeration- Free Oxygenic Photogranulation (OPG) Technology for Bioenergy Prospective” – (NUST,  PKR 1 million) – Ongoing
  • “Socio-Economic Assessment and Low Carbon Expansion Planning Model for Energy Projects under CPEC” – (HEC, PKR 7.9 million) – ongoing

     International

  • “Impact of Climate Change on the Fishery Communities dependent upon Manchar Lake, Sindh, Pakistan” – (Pulitzer Center USA, PKR 1.08 million) – Completed Oct 2024