Mataram, W Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA) – Mataram University (Unram) announced on Tuesday that its students had successfully developed a hybrid electrical heating seaweed device that is necessary for local seaweed farmers in West Nusa Tenggara.”Seaweed holds huge potential for West Nusa Tenggara. We make an effort to contribute to realize the enormous potential by developing a device called SeAweeDryEr (SADE),” SADE team head, M. Ahleyani, remarked. hleyani said he had developed SADE along with four other Unram students by integrating electrical and hybrid heating technology to optimize efforts to dry seaweed. Four other students from the SADE team are Muhammad Riyadhus Sholihin, Afrianti, Dini Febrianti Lestari, and Qurratul Akyuni. “This device has a capacity of 12 kilograms and is able to dry seaweed in only six to eight hours,” he remarked. “The length of time needed for drying seaweed by using SADE is much shorter than that of the traditional method that can take five to six days,” he stated. The SADE team members received funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology’s Student Creativity Program to develop the heating seaweed device, he remarked.

Source: Antara News Agency