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.

Respirator with Air Flow Artificial System

Summary

A prototype developed for the people have breathing comfort while use to protect covid-19, because the masks difficult the breath. It was developed with low cost materials adapting a respirator for worker in the chemical industry where it is used to work in places with toxic gases. The goal is to provide respiratory comfort for pleople to protect of coronavirus.

How I Addressed This Challenge

The prototype is a air purifier CG 306 model with small fan and charcoal filter. Perfect to use in street, bussiness and public spaces like airport, subway, market, etc.  Air purifying respirators are those that filter the ambient air with the help of specific filters, removing gases, vapors, aerosols. Filters can be chemical or mechanical or a combination of the two.

How I Developed This Project

Everybody need use mask but it´s difficult for many people because breathing difficult. So developed something simple with  materials  avaliable in my home. The data use to prove a great number of death in Brazil cause covid-19. Use a CG 306 respirator with chemical filters  e tree coolers or fan removed of a unused computer ant two battery. Two fan to do come in air through of the filter  and one fan to do out air  through the valve. Unfortunately we don´t have a air sensor to obtain a airflow value while the fan on but perceived is a improvement air circulation into respirator while using it a consequent improvement a breathing.

Data & Resources

Use a image that show a great number died and reduced economic activity . According Sedac Nasa Covid-19 Statics for Brazil  28 834 people died and 498 440  confirmed cases. Probaly many of these people don´t use a protect equipament maybe to feel breathing difficulty. The virus big spread April and May and spread a long way to go. For to  break  stay-home police the people must keep mask use, the more time too mainly in public local. Our project it is possible the people use mask   comfort and can use for a long time. 

Tags
#air qualitity #filter #mask #repirator #fan #cooler #chemicalfilter
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.