Objective

To design an engineering solution towards the current issues with the Citarum Rivers. We focused our paper towards the invasive water hyacinth increasing sedimentation in the rivers thus reducing the expected operational lifetime of the power grid which is relied on heavily by Indonesia’s population. The solution was thus to create a cost effective method of converting the plants into a useful product as incentive for its removal.

Technical Details

Members: Adam Putrayando, Adithya Vadakkadath, Fandika Ikhsan, Muhammad Fariz, Raihan Lutfianto

Class: MS4001 Kapita Selekta Teknik Mesin

(As part of IVC Global Engineering Design Course between ITB x University of Manchester)

Outcome Summary

• Developed an engineering solution to help with Citarum River’s invasive water hyacinth.
• Analyze CSR programs during PT. Indonesia Power Saguling POMU offline site visit.
• Modelled 3D CAD for a briquetting machine for the pyrolysis to biochar conversion.

Media

Technical Drawing:

Fusion 360 File:

Fusion

Documents

Final Report:

MS4001_Group 8_Paper.pdf