Laboratories
Central Laboratory Complex
Islamic Azad University, Tehran North Branch
The central laboratory complex was founded in 2010 and inaugurated in 2016 when the first chemical laboratories were used. All the laboratories at various colleges throughout the city have been gradually transferred into the complex under the management of Dr. Lida Salimi since 2018. This huge project needed a lot of efforts and preparations.
The complex extends over an area of more than 22400 square meters including 141 laboratories and workshops. Finest materials have been used to build this complex, and much care has been taken to yield the most beautiful and safest buildings. All the rooms and spaces in this complex get the best light, ventilation, and height.
The platforms of the complex are made by ceramic and anti-acid materials (HPL) resistant to chemicals from the German Warner Company. As stated by the manufacturer, this much material for platforms has been unprecedented up to the date. Moreover, the equipment and the fixtures used as faucets and valves, exhausts, fans, etc. are designer brands from Italy, France and Germany.
In order for the optimal ventilation, each laboratory utilizes distinct exhaust fans due to using a variety of chemical and biological matters by the laboratories. Laboratories are equipped with German chemical as well as microbial hoods according to their utilities. The spaces meant for chemical and microbial purposes are carpeted by anti-acid material, which enables a safe operation.
There are UV lights in microbial laboratories which serve as sanitizers. Also, forty for best quality laminar hoods are installed to set the standard for preparing materials for biological laboratories.
Owing to the sensitivity of the complex and varied laboratories, the immune system has been designed at the highest standard level. All the doors open outside to avoid potential hazards in emergency exits.
All the laboratories have emergency showers and special eye wash to keep the technicians, teachers and students safe from possible dangers if faced with chemicals.
The whole complex has fire alarm systems as well as automatic gas cut-off and smoke sensors. Fire extinguishing capsules are available everywhere on every floor in case they are needed. To be on the safe side, personnel have been trained accordingly.
To maintain the highest safety, the chemical stores which provide the stuff for the laboratories are all built outside the complex. Furthermore, the capsules containing dangerous gases are kept within safety boxes.
The laboratory areas as well as the corridors contain CCTV in order for controlling the areas and avoiding potential hazards. Students will have access to cloakrooms and private lockers. Besides, there are ATM and copy center available for students, teachers and workers.
Out of the existing spaces, a number of 24 are meant for research and the rest for training. The following faculties are using the laboratory complex at present:
Faculty of Chemistry: analytic, Organic, Nonorganic, Chemical Physics, and Applied
Faculty of Life Sciences: animals, plants, cellular-developmental, genetic, molecular-cellular, systematic, animal and plant physiology, microbiology, bacteriology, Industrial and food engineering
Faculty of Basic Sciences: Geology (petrology, tectonics, petroleum, economy, sedimentology, layers and fossil studies, seismology); Physics (nuclear, meteorology, engineering, solid, optic and laser)
Faculty of Marine Sciences and Technologies: environmental engineering, sea biotechnology, environmental pollution, sea physics, and sea chemistry
Faculty of Engineering and Technique: chemical engineering-polymer, process design, chemical industries, civil, architecture, and mechanics
Faculty of Computer and Electricity: Electricity (Electrical machineries, control, power, bioelectricity); Computer (artificial intelligence and robotics, software, hardware, and information technology)
Other laboratories in the complex are radiolar, herbarium, instrumentation, Xiray, GIS workshop which all include their own equipment.
There are high-tech and high-quality machines from popular brands in the complex to be used by the teachers and students. Portable devices and pieces can be carried to and used by other academic, research and industrial centers.
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Another advantage of this laboratory complex is 36 experienced technicians who are operating various experiments and doing a lot of efforts in different laboratories, workshops and research centers all the time.
A qualified technician and repairman is always available at the complex to take care of the devices and do the necessary repairs.
In the near future, a separate room will be devoted to keeping certain animals in the complex where they can breed and live in case they are needed. This can enable the complex to save money by not buying these animals each semester or year.
SAHA account number (FREE COOPERATIVE LABORATORIES SYSTEM) for using research equipment and laboratory spaces: Melli Bank, water and electricity industries: 0110399709007
This IAU Branch, with a laboratory space of more than 3300 square meters, including 54 laboratories and 22 workshops serves students of bachelor, master, and Ph.D. in 78 laboratory units in different majors such as chemistry (all majors), microbiology, biology teaching, geology, chemical engineering, computer, industries, foreign languages, fishery, environment, experimental sciences, hydrography, sea physics, sea chemistry, sea pollution and environmental protection, sea and biology, etc.
Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies
|
Area |
Workshop |
Equipment |
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58.32 |
Language laboratory (Theology) |
Central Control Desk; 36 Cabins with Audio Recorders and Speakers; 37 Headphones; Television; Amplifiers |
Faculty of Foreign Languages
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Area |
Workshop |
Equipment |
|
75 |
Language laboratory 1 (Faculty of Foreign Languages) |
Central Control Desk; 36 Cabins with Audio Recorders and Speakers; 37 Headphones; Television; Video Player |
|
63 |
Language laboratory 2 (Faculty of Foreign Languages) |
Central Control Desk; 36 Cabins with Audio Recorders and Speakers; 37 Headphones; Television; Video Player; Amplifiers |
Faculty of Chemistry
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Laboratory |
area |
Equipment |
|
General Chemistry A1 |
65 |
4 Scale-Balances; Digital Scale; Heater-Stirrer |
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General Chemistry B1 |
65 |
Water Distillation; 3 Scale-Balances; Magnetic Heater |
|
General Chemistry 2 |
81 |
3 Centrifuge; Water Distillation Softener; Simple Balance |
|
Organic Chemistry 1 and 2 A |
65 |
Digital Scale; Water Bath |
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Organic Chemistry 1 and 2 B |
65 |
Water Bath, Digital Scale 0.01 grams; 2 Electrical Heaters |
|
Glass Blowing Workshop |
86 |
10 Glass Burners; Grinding Stone; Desk Clamp; Air Compressor |
|
Bioinorganic chemistry |
81 |
Refrigerator; 2 Water Distillations; 3 Digital Scales; Oven Heater |
|
Isolation |
33.3 |
Oven; 0.1 and 0.01 Scales; Water Bath; 5 Heaters; Magnetic Heater Water Distillation |
|
Color and Polymer |
66.7 |
The equipment for Color and Polymer laboratory is shared with Isolation Laboratory. |
|
Research 2 |
88 |
Voltmeter; Sodium Pressor; Round Grinder; Cabinet; UV Microwave; Over Shaker; Mantel; Digital Scale; 7 Heater Stiller; Rotary |
|
Instrumental Analysis Chemistry |
68 |
2 Spectrophotometers; Analytical Scale; Digital Scale; Film photometer; Water Distillation; Heater |
|
Research 4 |
75 |
Oven; Spectrophotometer; 5 Oximeters; Incubator; a 0.01 and a 0.0001 gram Scales; Furnace; 2 Turbiditymeter; 3 PH meter; 2 Conductometer; 6 BOD Heater Stiller; Jar test meter; a 0.001 gram Scale |
|
Analytical Chemistry 2 Water and Swage Analytical Chemistry 1 |
80 |
Water Distillation; PH meter Oven; Magnetic Stiller; Ammeter; Conductometer; Heater; 2 Spectrophotometer; 2 Digital Scales; Electrolyze; Wastewater Biological Refinery Pilot; Advanced Wastewater Oxidation Refinery Pilot; Wastewater Chemical Refinery Pilot; Spectrophotometer; Conductometer |
|
Research 3 |
78 |
2 Jar Tests; 2 Digital Scales; Water Bath; Spectrophotometer; 4 Multimeters; 6 Heater Stiller; Centrifuge |
|
Instrumentation |
67 |
Atomic absorption; Film Photometer HPLC (VIS-UV); Oven; Atomic absorption GC mass( VARIAN ); Spectrophotometer (Vis – UV); IR- FT (ATR) |
|
Physics Chemistry |
82 |
Oven; 2 Spectrophotometers; 4 Heater Stillers; 2 PHmeters; 6 Conductometers; Coulometer; 2 Refractometers; 2 Scales; Polarimeter |
|
Research 1 |
76 |
3 Digital Scales; Oven; Rotary; 2 Centrifuge; 6 Mantels; 2 PH-meter Stirrers; Refractometer |
|
Modern Optic and Physics |
100 |
Goniometer; Rydberg Light; Zeeman Effect; Electron Light; Power Supply; e/m Light; Millikan Tool; Oscilloscope; (Optic): Sodium Lamp; 2 Power Supply; Nurnberg Instrument; Neon Helium Laser ; Newton Loop Instrument |
|
Physics 3 |
34 |
2 Heaters; line expansion coefficient; Function Generator; Goniometer; 4 Power Supply; calorimeter; Scale; 4 Thermal Conductivities |
|
Physics 2 |
35.5 |
26 Power Supply; 24 Multimeters; 7 Function Generators; 13 Oscilloscope |
|
Physics 1 (A) |
37 |
3 etude machines; 4 Collide Tool; 7 Timers; 4 Simple Scales; 4 Power Balance; 2 Friction Tool; Digital Scale |
|
Electronic |
45 |
36 manual Multimeters; Signal Generator; Resistance Box; Generator; Audio Generator; 9 Rheostats |
|
Physics 1 B |
63 |
3 Etude Machines; 3 Collide Tool; 6 Timers; 7 Simple Scales; 5 Power Balance; 2 Friction Tool; Digital Scale |
|
Physics Workshop |
44 |
Solid Specific heat capacity identification; liquid Surface Tension identification; Archimedes Rule; Relative Density Identification; Liquid Volume Expansion Correlation Identification; Measurement Set; Simple Pendulum; Pulley Set; Holding Tools; Metal Work Set; Wood Work Set; |
Faculty of Management and Humanities
|
Workshop |
Area |
Tools and Equipment |
|
Language Laboratory (Human Sciences) |
58 |
Central Desk; 41 Cabins with Audio Recorders and Speakers; 42 Headphones; Video Players; Amplifiers |
|
Typing Workshop |
65 |
13 Computers; 2 Video Projectors; 1 Television; 1 Over Head; 1 Opac |
Faculty of Basic Sciences
|
Laboratory
|
Area |
Equipment |
|
Preparation of Microscopic Thin Sections Workshop |
20 |
Stone-production-machinery; Manual Grinder; Polish and Grinder; |
|
GIS Workshop |
10 |
Stone-production-machinery; Manual Grinder; Polish and Grinder; Microscopic Polarization; Electric Heater |
|
Master’s Students of Geology |
54.23 |
Slide; Television; Video Player; Camera; Digital Camera; Bifunctional CCD Microscopic Polarization; Stereo Microscope |
|
Photo Geology |
58.4 |
12 Microscopes; 10 Microscope Polarizations; 2 Stereo Microscope |
|
Sedimentology |
40.7 |
3 GPS Hypsometer; 4 Polariscope;2 Shakers; 3 Digital Scales; 37 Compax; 6 Level Mapping Cameras; 6 Theodolites |
|
Geology Laboratory 1 |
74 |
17 Mirror Stereo Scope; Calcium Meter; Hygrometer; Television; Video Player; 2 Slides; Microscope Polarization
|
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Geology Laboratory 2 |
44 |
10 Microscope Polarization |
|
XRD Laboratory |
45 |
XRD Instrument and Accessories |
Faculty of Biological Sciences
|
Laboratory |
Area |
Equipment |
|
Plants physiology And biochemistry |
80 |
14 Microscope; 2 Stereo Scope; Oven; Digital Scale; Video Microscope; |
|
Master of Microbiology |
30 |
Shake Heater; Incubator Shaker; Pipe Shaker; Refrigerator; Oven; Digital Scale; Water Distillation; Photo Microscope; Loop Tool; PCR Gel documentation; Fluorescent Microscope; Refrigerator Micro Centrifuge; Refrigerator Incubator Shaker |
|
Master of Biology |
53 |
2 Incubators; Microthermal; 3 Centrifuge; Laminar Hood; PH Spectrophotometer; Meter; Loop; Refrigerator; Water Bath; Shaker; 2 Magnetic Heaters; Heater; Digital Scale |
|
Microbe and Biology Genetics |
8 |
Digital Scale; Refrigerator; Oven; Heater |
|
Mycology |
57 |
Water Bath; Centrifuge; 11 Microscopes; 18 Stereo Microscope (Air Sampler) |
|
Biology |
34 |
Slide; Ultra Centrifuge; Spectrophotometer; Oven; Rotator; 3 Digital Scales; 2 PH-meter; 3 Heaters; 2 Water Bath |
|
General Microbiology |
50 |
3 Autoclaves; Incubator; Shaker Pipe; a 0.01 and a 0.001 gram Digital Scale; Magnetic Heater; 4 Refrigerators |
|
Environmental Microbiology |
30 |
11 Samplers; 2 Microtome; 2 Incubators; 2 Ovens; Centrifuge; 2 Water Baths; 2 Magnetic Heaters; Autoclave; 26 Microscopes; Video Microscope; Television |
|
Master of Plant Sciences |
50 |
12 Microscopes; Oscilloscope; Magnetic Heater; Opac; Slide; Water Bath; Chemo graph; Digital Scale; Loop; Spectrophotometer; Video Microscope; Centrifuge; Stimulator; GPS Television |
|
Photomicroscope Room |
7 |
Photomicroscope; Computer; PH-meter |
|
General Biology
|
34 |
Heater; 3 Digital Scales; Oven; Ultrasonic; Water Bath; Spectrophotometer; Refrigerator; Television; |
|
Plant Systematic |
18 |
|
Faculty of Marine Techniques and Sciences
|
Laboratory |
Area |
Equipment |
|
Ecology |
40 |
15 Stereo Microscopes; 8 Microscopes; 2 Chemo Graphs; Centrifuge; Micro Hematocrit; Conductometer |
|
Fishery and Hydrobiology |
45 |
6 Microscopes; 3 Microscope Invert; Digital Scale; PH-meter; 6 Loop; Erlenmeyer Flask Shaker |
|
Biology |
70 |
7 Microscopes; 6 Loop; Water Bath; Incubator; Heater; Autoclave; Refrigerator; Freezer |
|
Research |
40 |
Electrophorese; Germinator; Oven; Incubator; 3 Loops; Photo Microscope; Microscope Invert; Autoclave; Shaker; Heater |
|
Sea Physics Workshop |
19 |
Refractometer; flow meter; Thermograph; Hygrometer; Autoclave; Oven; Water Sampler; 7 Ammeter; 7 Voltmeter; Seawater Flow Sampler (Buying) |
|
Weather Forecasting Workshop |
21 |
Thermograph; 2 Anemometers; Sunshine Recorder; Hygrograph; Digital Anemometer; GPS Stimulator; Spectrophotometer |
|
Environmental Pollution and Hydrochemistry |
45 |
Spectrophotometer; Incubator; Oven; Oximeter; PH-meter; DO-meter; Turbidimeter; Conductometer; 6 Microscopes; COD; Gamma Counter; Gamma Collector; Detector; Geiger-Müller counter; 3 Heaters; Hot Pilot; (Tissue Processor – Paraffin dispenser) |
|
Human Environment 1
|
51 |
digital panel meters; Level; Gyroscope; Pantograph; Nibo Camera; Theodolite; Pocket Mirror Stereo Scope; Television; Big Electric Saw; Bosch Electric Saw; Water Bath; Video Player; Slide; Mapping Meter; Clinometer; Curve Rating |
|
Natural Environment |
44 |
3 Conductometer; Codortometer; Turbidimeter; DO-meter; Centrifuge; 2 PH-meter; Spectrophotometer; Sound Level Meter; Shaker; Digital Scale; Soil Shaker |
|
Human Environment 2 |
40 |
Hot Plate; Incubator; Digital Scale; water softener; 6 Microscopes; 2 Autoclaves; Oven; Water Bath; Refrigerator; Kjeldahl |
|
Natural Environment 1 |
40 |
8 Microscopes; Electric Heaters; Digital Scale |
Faculty of Engineering
|
Laboratory |
area |
Equipment |
|
Fluid. Process Control- Thermal Transformation |
55 |
Radial Heat transfer coefficient Measurement; Fluid Heat transfer coefficient; Calorimeter Pomp; Heat Pomp; Pipe Heat Converter; Electronic Board; Reynolds Number Apparatus; Jet Impact; Amperage Indicator; Level Control; Manometer; Stability; Compressor |
|
Unit Operation |
57 |
Drier; Packed Tower; Tray Tower; Liquid-liquid Extraction; Solid-liquid Extraction; Grinder |
|
Logical circuit and Microprocessor
|
51.4 |
14 Manual Multimeters; 17 Digital Multimeters; IC Tester; 8 2-Channel Oscilloscopes ; 10 Function Generators; 20 Power Supplies; 7 Digital Boards; 8 Soldering Irons |