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.

Puri-vid

Summary

the project consists of two devices The first one consists of 13 layers from:Carbon, cellulose, cotton, HEPA paper, micro-glass, PET paper. Most of these materials have high efficiency like micro-glass, PET, and both are used to absorb dangerous gases. Cellulose, the cotton used to absorb air pollution particles.it works automatically by its air sensor which measures the amount of CO2 in the air and when it increases the filter works. The senor is called NDIR.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project idea is to make indoor air clean as we will put it in the home to provide us with fresh air. In another way, we will use the ISS air filter and try to develop it in many ways. The pure indoor air is the most important thing to stop the spreading of coronavirus especially in working places as organizations or factories... So our project obtains a good environment which clear viruses and it also maintains the percentage of CO2 as when it raises it will lead to the spreading of the infections that's where our device step in and goes through its processes making everything suitable for a healthy air-breathing.

How We Developed This Project

To consider a project as a successful one, it should be low in cost, high in efficiency, feasible, can be used easily, useful and there is a demand for it and to achieve these goals the project should be developed by :  increasing the efficiency of the project to purify more air and using eco-friendly materials, developing the sensor to get an accurate percentage of carbon dioxide in the air and connecting the sensor with Arduino application will make using and controlling it easier, using stress machine to integrate the sensor with the project to make it smaller and can be used everywhere and increasing the feature and functions of it to carry more jobs without affecting on the efficiency of the project.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1opCIIDNaA_-SdNvbOz4_uJCw6CB6QvhC 

Data & Resources
  1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282317970_Preparation_of_PETCTS_Antibacterial_Composites_Nanofiber_Membranes_Used_for_Air_Filter_by_Electrospinning
  2. https://molekule.science/activated-carbon-air-filter/
  3. https://www.exilva.com/blog/what-has-cellulose-fibrils-to-do-with-air-quality
  4. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/uoti-nca121719.php
  5. https://ncadmin.nc.gov/031A
  6. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-nasa-is-helping-the-world-breathe-more-easily
  7. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/long_duration_sorbent_testbed/
  8. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20100004823
  9. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2015/08/Biologial_air_filter_for_International_Space_Station
Tags
#hardware #arduino #economic #air quality #covid-19
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.