US-Pakistan Center for advanced studies in Energy launched at NUST, Islamabad

Islamabad: According to US–Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy program (USPCAS-E), The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in association along with Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has launched a US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy at NUST.

For quite some time, the Work on USPCAS-E has been in progress. USAID brought together the two Pakistani universities together with the Arizona State University (ASU) for work on raising the energy challenges as well as finding industry-focused research oriented solutions.

For the work on the development as well as deployment of USPCAS-E at NUST, Akif Zia Khan, a faculty member from NUST, fled to ASU in January 2016 for discussion on program to be adopted, lab equipment, as well as the sort of applied research projects together with the senior faculty at the Power Systems Research Center (PSERC).

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Dr Naseem Iqbal, another faculty to flee to ASU for the same project, emphasized the significance of USPCAS-E and stated, “These research projects would address some of the most pressing energy concerns that Pakistan is facing today.

Faculty as well as the aspirants NUST are geared to start projects for the effective energy storage and electrochemical reduction of CO2, converting it into valuable chemicals for the better environment”.

USPCAS-E at NUST also has a Smart Grids Laboratory which will permit the researchers to do advanced stimulation-based work on Electric Power Grid.

Furthermore, the Industries will also be permitted to utilize these facilities.