The Environmental Engineering Facilities and Services
The Environmental Engineering Unit has a laboratory housed at the ground level of the National Engineering Center building. This laboratory is used for instruction, support student researches, provide services to industrial clients on both testing and project bases. The laboratories are equipped with new instrumentation equipment, which were acquired through the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Project (DOST-ESEP) and other foreign and local research partners.
The EnE Laboratory has the following capabilities:
Water and Wastewater Analyses
- Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
- Biological Oxygen Monitoring for biokinetic parameters determination
- Physical Characterization including solids analyses
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) for organics
- Gas Chromatography for organic compounds
- Jar Test Apparatus for coagulation/flocculation studies
- Flame Photometer for K, Na and Li analyses
- Ion Exchange Apparatus for treatability studies of water and wastewater
- Waster samplers for River Water/Coastal Water Sampling and Monitoring
- Nutrients Analyses
- COD, TDS, DO, Turbidity, Corrosion kit systems for on-site monitoring
Metals Analyses
- Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) Test
- Elutriation Test/Total Assay for metals
- Analysis via Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Mass Spectrophotometer
Soil Analysis
- On-site soil test kit for nutrients and other ionic compounds
- Nematode Eggs Counting
Air Analysis and Monitoring
- Combustion Gas Analyzer for CO, SO2 and NOx
- Noise Level Measurement
- Psychrometer for humidity measurement
- Portable Stack Gas Analyzer
- High Volume Sampler