Membrains

View the final Project Report of #class22 Team "Membrains"

Goal

We, the group Membrain, analyzed membrains in nature for selective filtering in health care.

With the increasing usage of plastics in the world, microplastic in the water supply and the ocean creates problems even in our own body and thus our goal was to create a filter, which applies filter-feeder-mechanisms such as the ricochet system used by Manta Rays, in order to effectively filter microplastics without clogging up.

Our main target was to create a demonstration prototype on scale, that encorporates well known filtration mechanisms and borrows from examples like Salps and Manta Rays, and to research the effect of microplastics on the human body.

It is in this way that we wanted to live up to 2022's call "Learning from Nature"!

TEAM

Laura Gentner (Mechanical Engineering)
Tobias Loferer (Medicine)
Emilia Litzka (Mechanical Engineering)
Lenz Pracher (Physics)
Benjamin Villard (Mechanical Engineering)
Constantin von Witzleben (Engineering Science)
Julius Johannes Wenzler (Management and Technology + Medicine)

Concepts like the Manta Ray Ricochet Filter have been explored before, but with our unique mix of disciplines, we hope to derive creative solutions to the problem of microplastics and its impact on the human body.

TUTORS

Martin Zirngibl
Dina Aladawy

SUPERVISORS

Prof. Dr. Oliver Lieleg
Gwillem Mosedale

Final Update: Symposium

Finishing up and open Questions

We presented our prototype and simulation results at this year's symposium. It was a great event and the big amount of interest in our project as well as engagement really excited us. As we finish up, we want to publish our work through this website and are providing simulation as well as models to download down below. We hope our work will be able to inspire and be useful to further research!

Best,
Membrains