UC Engineering - Chemical and Process Engineering Final Year Project

Craig Stocker, BE (Hons) Student | Chemical and Process Engineering
Olivia Duplan, BE (Hons) Student | Chemical and Process Engineering
Lisa Mace, Senior Process Engineer | BECA
A remote village in Tonga needs clean drinking water but there is limited electricity to run a processing plant. That’s the real-life challenge facing our final-year Chemical and Process Engineering students for their team design project.
They need to create an economically viable plan for a small-scale plant to desalinate and sterilise drinking water. It should be powered by renewable resources since the village - a real place called Felemea - only has electricity for two hours each day and diesel is expensive.
Listen to Craig and Olivia talk through their solution, and hear Lisa's experience working with them for this final year project.
Video filmed and edited by Thomas Halliday, Attic Creative.