UNDIP Vocational Team Invented a Seawater Distillation Tool with Corn Cobs
The Diponegoro University (UNDIP) Vocational Team succeeded in creating a seawater distillation device with corn cobs. The team named Dipo Adinata from the Vocational School Study Program Bachelor of Applied Civil Infrastructure Engineering and Architectural Design of the UNDIP Vocational School. The team even won 1st place at the National Level in the Ecovillage Design Competition 2020 organized by the Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB).
In the competition, the Jury gave great appreciation and decided it to be the best work of Ecovillage Design 2020. The Head of the Vocational School Study Program of Civil Infrastructure Engineering and Architectural Design UNDIP, Asri Nurdiana ST MT, admitted that she was grateful for this achievement.
She stated that the university always encourages the enthusiasm of vocational students to take part in competitions both at national and international levels as a means of increasing creativity and innovation. A development pattern in vocational education programs.
“Alhamdulillah, from our participation, some of them received awards. Recently, we won first place in the Ecovillage Design Competition 2020,” stated Asri Nurdiana.
According to Asri, the Dipo Adinata Team consisted of Rizky Amelia Saptri Lay (D3 Civil Engineering 2018), Rifqy Anggoro Senoputro (D3 Civil Engineering 2018), and Tiara Retno Dewanti (D4 Civil Engineering and Architecture UNDIP 2019). “They won first place in a design competition held by IPB on August 25, 2020,” she said.
Dipo Adinata Team’s idea was entitled “Desagel: Distillation of Seawater Using Corn Cobs Waste as Hydrogel with a Fast, Economical, and Environmentally Friendly Process”. Apart from being literature-based, this idea is also tested with real conditions so that it has relevance. Acting as a supervisor, Riza Susanti ST MT.
The Ecovillage Design competition is a series of ICEF 2020 held by the Bogor Agricultural Institute nationally, which this year takes the theme of Cheap Technology for Providing Clean Water to Coastal Communities. The Ecovillage concept requires a clean water supply technology that is cheap but meets other aspects such as ecological, social, cultural, and economic.
As an illustration, Desagel Technology is a distillation concept designed in the form of a pyramid, where there is a solar panel on the right and left as a means of channeling solar energy which is then accommodated in the battery. There are several tools used by electric stoves, lamps, fans, and others.
As for the groove, the electric stove serves as a heater; lamps, fans, and hydrogels are made from corn cobs waste to accelerate evaporation. With this technology, it is easy for coastal communities to meet their clean water needs.
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