DKI Uses Thermal Hydrodrive Technology To Build Waste Management In Tebet, What Is It?

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JAKARTA - DKI BUMD, Perumda Pembangunan Sarana Jaya will build two intermediate waste treatment facilities (FPSA) or intermediate treatment facilities (ITF) in the southern and eastern regions.

One of the FPSAs to be built is in Tebet, South Jakarta. In its construction, Sarana Jaya will apply environmentally friendly thermal hydrodrive technology.

Inventor of thermal hydrodrive waste processing technology, Djaka Winarso said, hydrodrive technology is used by changing the characteristics to the volume of waste. Considering that the waste collected in Jakarta has been mixed between organic and non-organic.

"It turns out that our waste is mixed and wet. It's different from waste in developed countries where people can sort themselves out. That's why it's thermal, because it can resolve waste quickly and in significant volume and that's what we need," said Djaka in a virtual discussion. , quoted Saturday, October 16.

Djaka explained that thermal hydrodrive technology utilizes superheated steam (synthetic gas) as a catalyst to increase the temperature in the furnace boiler (combustion chamber) as well as fuel. It is used as a heat source for the waste drying process so that complete combustion occurs.

To maintain safe emissions, the temperature of the device is maintained at 850 degrees Celsius, plus a smoke filter using a cyclone wet scrubber will filter combustion smoke with a cyclone and spray water to reduce emissions to the permissible threshold.

"We will apply plasma in Tebet to prevent smoke from escaping, to process it so that it becomes neutral again. The original recycle process uses water as fuel," Djaka explained.

"However, this facility is indeed only a technology, because what is more than that, what is ideal, is the existence of upstream sorting or a decentralized concept so that waste is processed and destroyed near the source, not to a large landfill," he continued.

Meanwhile, Sarana Jaya Finance Director Bima Priyo Santosa said that the environmentally friendly technology for waste processing is targeted to start construction next year.

"Work related to waste management is currently in the process of selecting partners. We hope that there will be significant developments in November, so we hope that next year the physical activity of the project will begin," said Bima.

Bima views that the construction of these two FPSAs can solve Jakarta's waste problem. This is because the amount of waste produced by DKI Jakarta is quite large, reaching 7,800 tons per day.

Moreover, it is feared that the garbage collection capacity at the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST) will be full in the next four years.

"Imagine, if Bantargebang is full, what will Jakarta be like. With a scale like this, like it or not, that is one of the solutions that we must solve immediately, because Bantar Gebang is already at a critical point," he said.