Purify the Air Supply

Has your time spent indoors increased during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of stay-at-home and shelter-in-place policies worldwide? Your challenge is to use the International Space Station (ISS) as inspiration and develop a system to monitor and/or purify indoor air. It is entirely up to you whether the system you design is able to be used on Earth (for example in homes, businesses, transportation, etc.) and/or in space.

Bazinga Assistive Respiratory System (BARS)

Summary

BARS is an assistive respiratory system made using ceramic material, filaments and electronic components. It works by a R language (using non-boolean vectors) coding. As soon as the dirty air cross the first phase, the machine starts to heat (+270 Celsius degrees) through the ceramic material and the electronic circuit. So, the impurities precipitate into a filter and the air get into the output. And the process is a cycle, so, the air is recirculated time by time.

How We Addressed This Challenge

BARS goal is to provide pure air to humans, during the COVID-19 crisis, wherever and whenever. Filtering impurities, and killing hazardous pathogens, that can be found both on and off earth. In the modern world we live, people spend more time indoors, e.g: houses, offices, and even the ISS. Signifying the need for healthy environments. We look forward to contributing to the existing datasets, and ongoing research regarding air quality globally, moreover is of great need to use the existing data sets to create standards to compare among the newly inputted data.

How We Developed This Project

The team was inspired to choose this challenge because the team felt that the difficult level would be the same for all the integrants. Our approach was uliting the materials provided by the NASA Space Apps and outsourcing information online, as formulas, research papers, coding snippets, alongside our existing skills with 3D software, algorithms, chemistry, geography & anatomy. Having access to the space agencies data made our idea possible, by creating standards to compare with our algorithm output data. The tools that we have used are Fusion360 (non-commercial license) and R script.

Tags
#breath #covid19 #respirator #hardware #health #system #innovation #minimalism #design
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.