SANI-OZ| Purify the Air Supply

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.

SANI-OZ

Summary

Develop a purification system for indoor environments inspired by the process that follows the International Space Station. Before entering the environment, a disinfection process must be followed through a booth to ensure asepsis. Then, inside we will have a system that takes advantage of the information used by research on how to maintain clean environments in space. The system will be completely self-sustaining and will even take advantage of organic waste of all kinds. We also take advantage of the energy provided by plants. To ensure complete disinfection, autonomous robots will be used to check the house and disinfect environments.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Using as inspiration the processes of asepsis of astronauts on the International Space Station, this purification system is created. Using all kinds of waste, the purification system is supplied with energy. The guarantee of the completely sanitized space is given by autonomous robots by means of an ozonation process which will grant a more complete asepsis to the interior space that is to be purified.

How We Developed This Project

One of the biggest problems with COVID-19 is the guarantee of virus-free spaces. The problem gets worse since it is not only about spaces, but also people. The present project tackles both aspects by disinfecting and purifying spaces. Inspired by how the International Space Station manages its space, an interior disinfection system was developed. Strengthened with robotic technology and inspired by how the MELiSSA project manages organic spaces to guarantee survival in space, the system can achieve more than adequate levels of cleanliness for the good living of people.

Tinkercad was used for the modeling of elements. The electronics were managed using the Fritzing software. The system is based on Arduino and elements will be used to create mobile and intelligent robots that can traverse enclosed spaces.


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Data & Resources

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Self-Cleaning Boudouard Reactor for Full Oxygen Recovery from CO2. (n.d.). Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://techport.nasa.gov/view/32720

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Planta Piloto MELiSSA. (n.d.). Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://www.aeroespacial.sener/productos/planta-piloto-melissa

AGENCIA EFE. (2010, October 6). Melissa, un ecosistema artificial para sobrevivir en el espacio. In YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsdf-bnTB0&feature=youtu.be

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El Robot de Platón. (2018, August 20). ¿Cómo se ensambló la Estación Espacial Internacional? [Video file]. In YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJV6r3f-dsM

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Tags
#ozone, #robotics #MELiSSA, #automation, #ISS, #layers, #asepsia
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.