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.

Mach purifier

Summary

The challenge of improving the efficiency of air purification at the sites, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic in which we live, we will monitor the air quality through Arduino through sensors in conjunction with data from NASA satellites. Regarding purification, we will use the molecular sieve technique to obtain safer oxygen at the site, using the adsorption process. We also thought about the oxygen catalyst to transform high molecular mass components into water and methane, followed by the electrolysis process to obtain oxygen. It is important for us to be able to reach longer space flights and, on the land side, we can apply in companies and hospitals to avoid contamination.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Using data provided by space agencies and integrating them with our plates and sensors

How We Developed This Project

The biggest inspiration we had to choose this project was the current scenario in which we are all living, of a pandemic. Our main approach was to propose an improvement in air quality for several locations. We use NASA statistical data in relation to satellites that identify the proliferation of aerosols and we use models of equipment used by NASA on the ISS. Our main tool was NASA information and the use of arduino. We had problems with our computer and the data integration part, which was solved. Our greatest achievement is to always learn and be part of a good deed like this!

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/H9CrqsdYwpU

Tags
#airquality #arduino #hardware #Mach1 #MachPurifier
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.