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Model Testing Laboratory

Super Tank 
A 300 m long, 5 m wide and 5 m deep flume, equipped with a dry back, piston type, active wave absorption, electro-hydraulic servo feedback control system wave generator, capable of producing waves up to 1.0 m .

Mid-size Observation Flume
200m long, 2 m wide and 2 m deep, with glass sidewalls, capable of producing waves up to 0.6 m .

Near-Shore Basin
150 m long, 60 m wide and 1.5m deep, equipped with 10 units long crest wave generators operating through an electro-hydraulic servo feedback control system, capable of producing waves up to 0.3 m .

Shallow Water Basin
50 m long, 40 m wide and 1.0 m deep, long crested wave generators, capable of producing waves up to 0.2 m .

Thermal Diffusion Basin

50 m long, 16 m wide and 0.6 m deep, equipped with logical-controlled heating system and current generator, capable of producing thermal discharge up to1.5 *10-3 CMS. Up to 120 channels of thermal couples are available.

Pump Station Simulation Model

  6 m long, 3 m wide and 2 m deep, equipped with ADV current meter and electronic flow meter, swirl meter and water profile meter, capable of producing discharge up to7.2 *10-2 CMS. Suction bell field visualization model.

Instruments and data acquisition/analysis system
In order to satisfy the users that are involved in hydraulic or coastal research, mechanic and electronic engineers are fervor to design and build state-of-the-art measurement instruments for the user field (either in the laboratory or in the field).
Our experienced instrumentation staff can also design and build other instruments to meet all specifications, which includes:
wave gages designed and manufactured by THL
velocimeters  
pressure and force sensors  
bottom profiler designed and manufactured by THL
thermometers  
data acquisition/analysis system Windows NT base, developed by THL

Water Quality Laboratory

Flame atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS), graphite furnace, hydride

Microwave assisted digester

Spectrophotometer

Particle size analyzer

Turbidimeter, pH meter, DO meter

Wet chemistry glasswares

Survey & Monitoring

Offshore observatories

Portable instrument (wave sensors, current meters, tidal meters, global positioning system, echo sounder, side scan sonar for marine climate measurements)

Groundwater level measurements , Soil gas sampling , Groundwater sampling , Colloidal borescope system, PID(ppb level) ,Electric percussion drilling tools

Super Tank 
Mid-size Observation Flume
Near-Shore Basin
Shallow Water Basin
Thermal Diffusion Basin
Energy diffusion on the fore-bay of the intake channel
Wave gauges (designed and manufactured by THL)
Offshore observatories
Echo sounder
 

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