Annual Report July 2012 June 2013  Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission

7.6.1 IAEA project

7.6.2 Basic NDT training for BAF officers

Energy institute is committed to building a favorable infrastructure for sustainable energy research and to promote the technological know-how in both renewable and non-renewable energy fields. With a view to accomplish the research and development activities in various fields within the scope and interest of the institute two distinct divisions have been created,, namely, (1) Nuclear Energy Division-that facilitates with the opportunity to carry out R&D in the desired fields of Nuclear Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Safety and Plasma Science and Fusion Research and (2) Renewable Energy Division- that facilitates with the opportunity to perform R&D in the desired fields of Solar Energy, Hydrogen Energy and Miscellaneous Energy Research-that includes researches on Wind, Biomass, Coal and Environmental, Hydroelectric power, Geothermal, Tidal and Wave etc.

The utmost priority of the Institute is to help Bangladesh become energy independent through building technologically sound group of professionals and sharing knowledge and expertise with other apposite experts in and outside the BAEC. The primary objectives of the institute are to-

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  build trained and skilled manpower in different areas related to energy production
  
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  undertake and promote R&D activities in the respective fields
  
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  develop new technology for efficient and cost-effective energy production
  
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  Perform R&D in renewable sources, including hydrogen energy
  
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  improve fuel cell technology and materials needed for fuel cells
  
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  support academic activities, such as M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D. studies and carry out collaborative research programs
  

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  Perform design and analysis of a typical PWR core
  
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  Develop new models and methodologies to analyse pebble bed type HTRs
  
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  Perform overall safety aspects during irradiation of TeO₂ in the CT of TRIGA reactor
  
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  Simulation of TRIGA coolant system and perform safety analysis using RELAP5 code
  
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  Generation of cross-section library for ORIGEN code to evaluate fission product inventory from TRIGA LEU fuel
  
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  Formulation of a research project on renewable energy is underway
  
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  Setting-up of Plasma Assisted Surface Technology laboratory is underway
  
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  Expansion of research activities through international cooperation
  

Computer Training and Services Division (CTSD) is one of the core divisions of Institute of Computer Science (ICS). The main objectives of CTSD are to conduct basic & applied research in the field of Computer Science & Engineering, and ICT education and training. CTSD publishes several articles in the peer reviewed journal as well as it provides training and consulting services to BAEC, such as software and web application development, maintenance and up gradation of inter-network infrastructure of BAEC, broad band internet service, manpower development. The CTSD division also provides training services to university and polytechnic students. The division conducts policy and ICT relevant national and international collaborative work with the Ministry of Science & technology as well as International Nuclear Information System (INIS), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the field of Computer Science & Engineering, and ICT education and training.

The optical fiber network design and its deployment have been completed. As a result of this optical fiber network, Central Administration Division of Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) is getting a high speed internet service.

Installation has completed and ready to offering e-Learning courses of Nuclear Education. This e-Learning System is based on "MOODLE", an open Source Learning Management System (LMS) which is dedicated for e-Learning system of Nuclear Education. BAEC e-Learning system has opened up to offering various courses on nuclear education and training. As a result, it becomes easy to disseminate the nuclear education among the BAEC employees and nuclear power awareness to the bottom of the pyramid people to develop a nuclear culture that ultimately leads to build our dream Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP).

The optical fiber network design and its deployment have been completed. As a result of this optical fiber network, Hostel & Guest House of Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) is getting a high speed internet service.

With the collaboration of Ministry of Science and Technology, this division is performing various activities to fulfill the goal of Digital Bangladesh. CTSD Division has participated in the contest of Digital Bangladesh, “Digital Innovation Fair-2012”.

The modern retailer operates in an environment of continual change; in terms of consumer trends and the now ubiquitous use of technology. Retailers have always been under economic pressure, but globalization and technology have made the cost of inefficiency and inadequate planning particularly damaging to their growth or survival. Retail management is faced with having to make decisions in an economic environment that is perpetually in a state of flux. These decision makers turn their appraisal inwards, using indicators that are rooted solely in the company’s own past or in the present performance in order to make predictions about the future. While many retailers look towards Business Intelligence (BI) systems to help guide them forward, they may not fully understand the limited scope of the data they are working with; not realizing that even though their systems are processing enormous amounts of data, there is still a large amount of important information that is not being integrated into their decision making systems.

Macroeconomic indicators play a very important role in the success or failure of a company from daily operations at the departmental level up to the enterprise level, gauging the year ahead. Macroeconomic data thus should be imported into retail BI systems in order to improve the accuracy of forecasting. The goal of this project is to prove the hypothesis that retail companies should integrate macroeconomic data with their BI systems in order to enhance their overall reporting capabilities, which leads to better strategic decision making capabilities for retail management.

This project surveyed the attitudes of retail management in terms of their current BI system practices, as well as to the introduction of macroeconomic data as an enhancement to their BI systems data set. Feedback on the proposed use of macroeconomic data in a retail BI system and its effectiveness for decision making was reviewed with poll participants as well as interviewed subjects. It is learned from the research that a BI system that uses external factors such as macroeconomic data to enhance its data and in particular its forecasting capabilities adds more value to a retail company’s management team. In general, it has been seen through poll questions that most retail management teams would consider the use of macroeconomic data as a viable enhancement to their organization’s BI system, however with concerns in the area of complexity.

Aggressive deadline of system delivery, changing requirement specifications, exhausting manual testing, and lack of trained staff represent main problems of software testing process. There is always need to speed up testing process as much as possible while maintaining the accuracy and comprehensiveness of the system. Several techniques are already invented to derive test cases automatically based on system’s design trying to ease up the testing process.

Data, on the other hand, represents the main reason for creating software. Computers receive, manipulate, compute, transmit, register, read, and display data. Software deals with data whether it is information system, embedded systems, data-collection systems, or batch processing system. Wherever there were computers, there was data to be processed by them. It is possible – at least from theory perspective – to establish an analyzer which search, analyze, and organize the input and output of data in any system to generate potential test cases or help the test engineer to generate them by study the interacting between the data items.

This research investigates how data could be used to help testers in understanding the system under test and generate various test cases by analyzing its data’s access and interaction with functions and other data items inside and outside targeted system, and by verifying functional dependency of the system. Also the research proposes an initial framework and design of Data Analyzer which provides the tester with the power to peek inside the tested application by analyzing its data: input, output and data’s variables and their interactions. Moreover, it establishes several techniques to investigate, follow, and visualize the results in a way that makes a sense of data, helps tester to think better, compares data more efficiently and eventually helps the tester to make the right decisions.

Each year employees of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) goes abroad to attend Expert Mission, Scientific Visit, Fellowship, Training Course, Workshop, Meeting, Seminar, etc. For each foreign visit a Government Order (GO) need to be issued. There is always need to store these GO related data in a central repository. Commission thus wanted to have a database which will store all these data as well as generate required reports. For this a database is designed and being developed using MySQL and PHP programming language. Different search and list options are provided to various reporting. About there year data is also entered into the database for testing.

The website of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), both Bangla and English versions, is required to be updated regularly. During this year, request has been sent to all institute/ division via Scientific Information Division (SID) to send their up-to-date information. After getting up-to-date information from different institute/division, web pages of the respective institute/division were updated. Recruitment notice, tender, circular, seniority list, etc are regularly published in the dynamic notice board area. Citizen charter of BAEC was also published during this period. During this year a total of 85 pages were updated. The website of BAEC was attached with virus and later Malware was detected and than cleaned up.

A number of new computers have been assembled for ICS as well as other Institute of BAEC. Beside this, around 6 computers have been assembled and 29 computers have been repaired and upgraded during this period. A list of these activities for the period of July’2012 to June’2013 is given below:

The official ID card for each employee working in BAEC is prepared by Computer System Division (CSD), ICS. In July’2012 to June’2013 more than 506 ID cards have been prepared by CSD from different Institutes/ Divisions in BAEC.

This division deals with the design, development and fabrication of electronic instruments which are mainly used for test and measuring purposes.

A number of Nuclear Instruments have been designed in the General Electronics Division. These are Portable Radiation Dose Rate Meter (PRDM), Hand and Foot Radiation Monitor (HFRM) and Area Radiation Monitor (ARM). These Instruments have been supplied to different Institutes and Industries of the country.

Microcontroller based Radiation Dose Rate Meter (MDGE) has been designed and developed with analog display and working satisfactorily in several institutes.

In order to improve the nuclear safety features of the existing Hand and Foot Radiation Monitor, the Microcontroller-Based Hand and Foot Radiation Monitor project has been taken up. Fabrication is going on.

Microcontroller Based Area Radiation Monitor development work is going on.

Design and Development of Microcontroller based automatic room environment control system initiated for insect rearing room. The developed system will be used in IFRB, AERE, Savar. Development work is going on.

The project entitled “Development of Microcontroller Based Area Radiation Monitor” is a vital work. The software development of the project work is going on.

Software design of the project is going on.

i) A Portable Dose Rate Meter, model no: DRGE-31, serial no: 060401 of Nuclear Mineral Unit, AERE, BAEC has been repaired at 22 October, 2012.

ii) A Cooled Incubator, Model no: MIR-153, serial no: 51005672 of Food technology Division, IFRB, AERE has been repaired at 17 December 2012.

iii) A Portable Dose Rate Meter, model no: DRGE-31, serial no: 020302 of Gamma Source Division, IFRB, AERE, BAEC has been repaired at 1 January, 2013.

A training “Basic Electronics”, held in Institute of Electronics, AERE, Savar, Dhaka, has been conduct from 10 September 2012 to 09 October 2012.

IAEA Technical Cooperation Project (BGD/0/009) “Supporting Instrumentation and Control used in the Research Reactor and in Laboratories” (2012-13) cycle has been started on January 2012.

A microprocessor based power recorder was designed and developed which can record the electric line condition for twenty four hours. At present this instrument can measure under voltage, over voltage, normal voltage and power failures. Instead of microprocessor now it has been replaced by a microcontroller.

A microprocessor based temperature recorder was designed and developed which can record the atmospheric temperature for twenty four hours at any place. This instrument can measure atmospheric temperature from 0º C to 100º C. Instead of microprocessor now it has been replaced by a microcontroller.

A General Purpose Temperature Controller was designed and developed which can measure the temperature from 0º C to 200º C. For sensing temperature, PT-100 has been used. The prototype of Temperature controller is working satisfactorily and now it has been used in the VLSI laboratory.

i) Industrial attachment training course was given to the students of Islamic University of Technology (IUT) for one month.

ii) Industrial attachment training course was given to the students of different Polytechnic Institute for two months.

10.2.5 Repair and maintenance work

i) UPS-1000C

ii) Extension Board

(c) Nuclear Electronics Division

10.3 Research and Development Work

10.3.1 Design, development and fabrication of the prototype nuclear counting system

Nuclear counting system is used in many nuclear experiments. It is also a basic system to learn nuclear science and technology. The main objective of this project is to develop such system for education purpose. The system may also be useful for nuclear scientists. Design and development work of this system has been completed

LabVIEW is very powerful design software that converts a PC into virtual instrument. The objective of this project is to develop user-friendly nuclear instrument, which will be helpful to the scientists and engineers. The hardware and software part of this system has been completed. Now interfacing with PC is in progress.

The survey meter produced by IE or other survey meter come for repair and service will be calibrated under this program. The main objective of this program is to fulfill the “Electronic calibration of gamma ray survey meter”. 3 KVA online UPS has been procured. Setup the management system is done partially.

In this development work, we have developed a microcontroller based programmable timer with digital display system that can be configured to connect the AC main line to the instruments for a predefined time interval. This device can function in two modes: manual mode and programmable mode. In the programmable mode, the device connects AC main line to the power outlet for a set interval. On the other hand, the device works as a switch board in the manual mode.

We have designed a sensor simulator that can be connected to the circuit terminals rather than the sensor. By using the simulator, sensor based electronic circuit could be tested and verified before real applications. The output voltage of the developed simulator can be varied from -1V to +1V with a precise step change of 1mV. A microcontroller based display system has been developed to show the accurate measurement of voltage provided by the sensor simulator.

Precise measurement and perfect analysis of pH value for a solution is essential in multitude applications ranging from the agricultural sector to clinical laboratories. The objectives of this work are to design and develop an inexpensive microcontroller based highly precise pH meter. To remove unwanted noise, digital signal processing technique will be used developing microcontroller program.

The number of PCB board design is 14.

Repair three computers and Power Supply of IE, AERE.

i) A total number of 58 students of different Polytechnic Institutes completed their 11 weeks (23 October 2011 to 15 January 2012) Industrial Attachment Training course.

ii) A number of students of MIST, Mirpur Cantt. Dhaka completed their industrial attachment training course (02 December to 24 December 2012).

(d) Production Division

10.4 Production Work

In order to meet the requirement of different institute of BAEC and organization of the country, the following electronic instruments have been produced.

Measuring range: 0-14 pH, Resolution: 0.01 pH, Input Impedance: 10¹² Ohms, Accuracy: ± 0.01 pH, Type of pH electrode: Combination type, Temperature compensation : Manual, Input Base current: 10 Pico Amp. (Approx.), Power requirement: 220 V AC, 50Hz, Readout: 3.5 digit display, Weight: 1.5 Kg (Approx.)

Upper cut-off voltage : 270V, Lower cut-off voltage: 120V,Time delay: Direct (No delay), 30 sec (For TV/Comp),: 3 min (For Fridge),Stabilized output: 205-235V, Input voltage: 220VAC, 50Hz, Type: 160-250V,Weight: 8 Kg ( Approx. )

Upper cut-off voltage: 250V, Lower cut-off voltage : 160V, Time delay: 3 min (Adjustable), Input voltage: 220VAC, 50Hz, Output (safe range): 160-250V, Weight: 1.8 Kg (Approx.)

This division has been providing services through repair, maintenance and installation of scientific, nuclear medical, industrial and nuclear instruments of different Institutes and Establishments of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and outside the organization. In addition to this design, development, fabrication and up-gradation activities are being carried out in this division.

About forty eight (48) instruments are repaired, maintained and installed during this time according to the requisition of the user. The Instruments are : Area Radiation Monitor, Microwave Oven, Computer CPU, Laser Printer, Epson LQ2180 Printer, CRT Monitor, LCD Monitor, UPS, Oscilloscope, 6KVA UPS, Drop Out Relay, Oven, Radiation Survey Meter, HSM Clothing Monitor, Ampere Meter, Refrigerator Temperature Controller, Incubator, Neutron Survey Meter, Computer Power Supply, Sealer Machine, Electronic Balance etc.

i) Industrial Attachment Training Programme for the students of Polytechnic Institutes is conducted. This year all together fifty four (54) students of Mohila (Dhaka), Dhaka, Kustia, Bhola, Jessore, Comilla, Barisal, Habigonj & Rajshahi Polytechnic Institutes attended the three months training programme from 16 October 2012 to 07 January 2013.

ii) Industrial Attachment Training Programme for the students of Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Gazipur is conducted from 30 September to 25 October 2012. This year about eighty eight (88) students attended the training programme.

iii) Industrial Attachment Training Programme for the students of Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Mirpur Cantt., Dhaka is conducted from 02 December to 24 December 2012. This year all together eighteen (18) students attended the training programme.