Laboratories for Urban Water Engineering

Urban Water Engineering mainly conducts applied research that takes place in both laboratory and field. The environmental laboratory with its associated experimental hall and experimental outdoor facility provides opportunities for analytical work, as well as experiments on a laboratory and pilot scale. Even the Fluid Mechanics laboratory can be used for experiments by our group if needed. The environmental laboratory and experimental hall are also used for laboratory work in the urban water courses given to students in the Environment and Water program.

Environmental laboratory for urban water engineering

The Environmental Laboratory is well equipped for environmental research for several research subjects at the university and provides opportunities for both researchers and students to conduct experiments and analyses on varying scales.

• Link to the lab

Lab in a van for field work

For field studies we have a specially equipped vehicle, the “Labbomobilen” for transporting equipment and staff. The cabinet section is also equipped with bench surfaces where you can perform laboratory work directly in the field such as filtering samples, filling sample bottles and also performing simpler analyses, such as pH, conductivity, TSS and turbidity.

Our equipment for sampling and measurements in the field:

Portable sampler “ISCO 6712” that can be run on rain, time, flow and event
Different flow meters, measures liquid level and average stream velocity, and calculates the flow in open channels and pipes
Interface modules and dataloggers for storing data e.g. pH, conductivity, turbidity and rain
Tracer tests (Rhodamine) “YSI 600OMS”
Flowmeters "Hydro-Bios RHCM" for open channels and watercourses
Sediment core sampler "Kajak" for sampling in ponds and recipients
Water samplers “Ruttner Sampler”
Soil sampler "Geosampler" for light soils, meadows and lawns
Snow sampler “SWE Coring Tube”
"MPD Infiltrometer" for measuring infiltration capacity in soil
Precipitation gauge "Geonor" placed in Porsön, Luleå and in Solbacken, Skellefteå
Climate chamber "QUV Accelerated Weathering Tester"