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The Institute has developed various physical modeling facilities. The facilities have been used to study compound channel flow, erosion in deeply submerged sluice gate, local scour around piers and abutments, cohesive sediment transports, scour mitigation around piers and abutments using sacrificial piles, floodplain sedimentations etc. Currently experiments are being conducted to test the effectiveness of the bandal-like-structures for the protection of river erosion.
The Institute has recently constructed a large Flood Flow Channel (FFC) facility (main channel dimension: 35 m x 4 m x 1.2 m) at the institute premises. This kind of facility is the first of its kind in Bangladesh. The facility would be utilized for the basic and applied research on flood related problems such as floodplain sedimentation, bank erosion and river channel changes, morphological behavior at channel bifurcation, failure of hydraulic structures, river channel stabilization etc. The FFC would be expanded in future to accommodate tide, wave and unsteady flow generation.
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In the last three decades there has been rapid growth in the field of remote sensing & GIS and its various applications in the area of water management. The Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory of the Institute began in 2004. The faculty and students associated with the laboratory conduct research on applications of geoinformatics in water management. The hardware of the Laboratory includes: five high speed computers for image processing and geospatial analysis, five hand-held stereoscopes for visual image interpretation, digitizer and scanner. The software currently available at the Institute includes: ILWIS 3.3 Academic and ArcGIS.
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Hands-on Training in RS & GIS Laboratory |
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The Institute has acquired modern and sophisticated equipments for conducting field and laboratory studies. The equipments include Global Positioning System (GPS) Total Station, Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), Electronic Total Station, Echo-Sounder, 2-Component Electromagnetic Current Meter, Automatic Water Level Gauges, Sediment Sampler, Soil and Water Testing Equipments, Irrigation Equipments etc. The Institute has set up a number of field stations equipped with automatic rainfall and water level gauges. The Institute has also setup a receiving system for weather satellite (Geo-stationary Meteorological Satellite) at the Institute premises.
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The soil and water analysis laboratory at IWFM is equipped with high performing measurement equipments and testing facilities. The laboratory is currently used for the post-graduate student research and faculty research. The laboratory currently possess one water distillation unit, precision and analytical balances, incubator, oven, muffle furnace, DO meters, pH meters, EC/TDS meters, centrifuge machine, TCLP rotary shaking apparatus, one programmable digital Visual Spectrophotometer, BOD sample units and several field kits. The laboratory facilities are suitable for precise water quality analysis of drinking water, municipal wastewater and industrial wastewater. The portable kits are suitable for rapid assessment of water quality at field. The laboratory is currently in possession of a small scale effluent treatment plant (ETP) at IWFM premises which is suitable for research on biological and chemical treatment of municipal and a variety of industrial wastewaters. Analysis of soil and sediment for the salinity level, particle size distribution, organic and inorganic carbon content, nutrients are currently performed at the laboratory. The immediate targets of the laboratory include developing capability in trace level analysis of persistent organics, pesticides and heavy metals.
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Measurement of Bankline using