Energy Institute

Phone: 880-2-7790009, Fax: 880-2-7789337
Email: quamrul@dhaka.net

Director: Dr. Md. Quamrul Huda

    Introduction

Energy is the strategic input for sustainable development and the issue of energy security is considered like the individual security, social security and territorial security. Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) is struggling on reinforcing its culture of innovation with unrelented commitment to face the energy challenges of the country. Energy Institute, the newly established institute in the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) has been started functioning to build a favorable infrastructure for sustainable energy research and to promote the technological know-how in both renewable and non-renewable energy fields.

The planned research and development activities are diverse and broad with the objectives to-

• undertake R&D activities in different energy fields
• develop new technology for efficient and cost-effective energy production
• perform R&D in renewable sources
• improve fuel cell technology and materials needed for fuel cells
• support academic activities, such as M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. studies and carry out collaborative research programs

    Nuclear Reactor Engineering and Safety Research

Energy Institute gives the utmost priority to extend its full support to the development of appropriate infrastructure and skilled manpower in the field of nuclear reactor engineering. In this regard following programs are in progress in the institute to keep the researchers abreast with the current state-of-the-art nuclear reactor technology:

• Engineering analysis of nuclear reactors, with particular emphasis on reactor physics, design and safety
• Nuclear fuel performance, core management and fuel cycle analysis
• Development of methods, tools and techniques to investigate fission product inventory and to carry out decommissioning studies of nuclear reactors
• Setting up a prototype test facility to study thermal hydraulics and safety parameters of LWRs
• Hands on exercises using advanced power reactor simulating software
• Create technical knowledge base to prepare/evaluate bid documents
• Probabilistic Safety Assessment of NPPs to enhance safety culture
• Design study of Innovative Next Generation nuclear reactors

    Available Facilities
    Advanced Computational Tools

    

Neutronics	:	MCNP5, NJOY99.0, MVP, WIMS-D5, WIMS-ANL, CITATION, SRAC, REBUS3
TH and Safety	:	COOLOD, PARET, RELAP5/MOD4.0
FP Inventory	:	ORIGEN2.1, MONTEBURNS2.0
Simulator	:	PWR, BWR, CANDU, VVER

    Advanced Thermal Hydraulics and Safety Research Lab. (underway)

    Achievements

• Design of a typical PWR core
• Develop new models and methodologies to analyze pebble bed type HTRs
• Perform overall safety aspects during irradiation of TeO2 in the CT of TRIGA reactor Simulation of TRIGA coolant system and perform safety analysis using advanced RELAP5 code
• Generation of cross section library for ORIGEN code to evaluate fission product inventory from TRIGA LEU fuel

  Plasma Science and Fusion Research

    Ongoing and Future Research Activities...
    Theoretical and Computational Plasmas

• Production, confinement and and heating of plsmas
• Development of computer codes for plama analyses
• Designing of plasma devices, small scale fusion devices

    Experimental Plasmas

• Construction of plasma production systems
• Studies on production of plasmas and their properties

    Plasma Based Technologies
    Development of plasma cutter, sterilization system, surface coating system, plasma reformer, etc.

    Plasma Assisted Surface Technology
    Energy Institute and Mieno Lab of Shizuoka University, Japan have agreed to sign a MoU for scientific collaboration. Under this MoU, the Mieno Lab will help setting up anexperimental facility, Plasma Assisted Surface     Technology (PAST) LAb, in Energy Institute to transfer technologies related to surface coating of metals, CVD, PVD etc., and coating evaluation.

    Renewable Energy Research

      Solar :For making solar energy an efficient, low-cost and large-scale source of energy production Energy Institute has plans to -

• carry out fundamental research to manufacture PV solar cells of lower cost and higher efficiency
• construct plant to generate electricity using concentrated solar power
• develop photoelectrochemical cells to generate hydrogen

    Wind :The Institute aims to initiate following activities to utilize the power of wind:

• Work out on technical requirements and opportunities for wind power generation
• Technology and cost assessment studies using advanced tools for offshore wind energy implementation
• Development and testing of custom made solar and wind hybrid system for power generation

     Hydrogen :

The future R&D activities will focus on hydrogen production and delivery, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, technology validation and safety assessment.

     Miscellaneous Sources :

The Institute has also plans to carry out research activities on other potential sources of renewable energy, such as, biomass, tidal, wave, geothermal and hydroelectric power.

    Resource Person

Name	Designation	Phone
Dr. Md. Quamrul Huda quamrul@yahoo.com	Director	7790009
Dr. Khairul Islam khairulislam@yahoo.com	PSO	01552485156
Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman mizanrbd@gmail.com	SSO	01552545103
Dr. Abid Imtiaj dr.abidz@yahoo.com	SSO	01678141626