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.

A compact air purification unit with Infrared thermal sensor to detect possible Covid-19 cases.

Summary

We used a Air scrubber utilizing UV light for ionization of air and possibility cleansing Air which could carry any Covid-19 virus along with dust and Aresol, Followed by a air filtration unit composed of a Charcoal and a Iodinated filter. The whole unit was made to be compact for ease of movability and so it can be used in places where mass gathering is expected. Three additional senors were added FT-IR spectrometer and IR thermal sensor and motion sensor to be used to detect any covid patent.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project utilizes the most widely used method to detect covid-19 Patients more efficiently as in a public gathering environment the motion sensor will detect any human presence in front of it and will direct the infrared sensor which would  detect the persons body temperature and in case of any deviation from normal body temperature will inform the operator to look in to it, mean while the scrubber and filtration system will eradicating any possible covid-19 carriers in the air using UV rays. 

How We Developed This Project

The inspiration behind taking up this challenge was to utilized this opportunity and pay our contribution in combating this great pandemic. We went through the ISS air purification systems and tried to utilize it in our project as efficiently as possible. We did not use any particular software but we used our engineering knowledge/ sense to come up with this project. We were able to win among the local teams the Bahrain and hope to compete internationally.  

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QLAPr8kG3X_gdiVZ-509yWu4ovDpCQiP/view?usp=sharing

Tags
#nasa #air_purity #IRsensor #ISS #scrubber #fikteration #motion_sensors #Covid-19 #anita_air_purification #compact #on_deman_purification
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.