Seminar on Electrical Power Engineering at CIIT Abbottabad
Department of Electrical Engineering, 21 May 2009
A seminar was organized by the Power Engineering Group of Electrical Engineering Department, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Abbottabad on Thursday, May 21, 2009. All faculty members of Electrical Engineering Department and a large number of students attended this seminar. Seminar was organized to discuss the “Role of Nuclear Power in Current Energy Crisis”.
Engineer Zia-ul-Hasan Siddique from Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Islamabad was the Guest speaker of the event. He has excellent academic and professional record. He has served at various positions including Manager (Technical) KANUP, Deputy Plant Manager (Engineering) at KANUPP and General Manager (CHASNUP-1). He was awarded the President’s Award for Pride of Performance in 2004. He is the member of Nuclear Power Generation, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.
He delivered a very informative lecture on the topic under discussion. He enlightened the audience that nuclear energy is one of the emerging technologies of the world for power generation. Its share in the world’s power generation is more than 10%. He stated that nuclear energy can play an important role in overcoming the current energy crisis being faced by Pakistan. Pakistan has already 2 nuclear power plants, one is in Karachi namely “KANUP” and other is in Mianwali namely “CHASNUP”. Total energy produced by these power plants is about 350 MW, which is about 2% of the total production of Pakistan.
Another power plant namely “CHASHNUP-2” of 325 MW will start operating soon. The guest speaker further stated that two other mega projects of 1000 MW are also in the planning phase.
Dr. Kamran Liaqat Bhatti, Assistant Professor suggested that government must plan to utilize their thorium resources and build power reactor with utilizing thorium as nuclear fuel.
Participants gained the recent knowledge about various facts of the topic under discussion. EE and other Departments of CIIT Abbottabad have been organizing such seminars and conferences regularly which will enhance the knowledge and mental vision of students at this institution and will make them aware with recent developments in their field of studies and research.