Breathing natural air has become an extravagance of sorts now, particularly in most of the urban areas in India. Urban areas like the national capital Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad are among the most exceedingly terrible on the planet with regards to air quality, which is a few times higher than the tolerance level.

 

The only solution is for those who can manage the cost of air purifiers at homes and workplaces.

As of late, Delhi got its first-historically speaking ‘smog tower,’ which become operational in Lajpat Nagar Central Market.

 

The 20-ft-tall smog tower has been fitted by the Traders Association Lajpat Nagar (TALN) with the assistance of east Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir in the market, which manages a footfall of almost 15,000 individuals consistently.

 

Presently a gathering of student researchers in Punjab has built up an algae-based air purifier that they have claimed won’t just kill 98 percent of the unsafe gasses and particulate matter in the air. It will also likewise increase the measure of oxygen, making you home more breathable.

 

The air purifier named OX-C was designed by scientists from Lovely Professional University (LPU Jalandhar) and IISER Mohali. As indicated by the designers, they got the motivation to construct an algae-based air purifier from the continuous space research to create oxygen in space through algae.

 

“There are a few air purifiers accessible in the market, yet they all work on the equivalent or similar technology, that is, cleaning of the toxins through Carbon and HEPA channels. The amazing air purifier utilizes a new innovation than what is being used by the popular air purifiers in the market.

 

The device, which utilizes a tube loaded up with marine algae, cleans the indoor air and adequately removes dangerous gases like carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides with an excellent performance standard of more than 98% and further mixes oxygen in the purified air,” Naveen Luthra, head of division of startup at Lovely Professional University, said.

 

“This creative air purifier produces biomass as the result of the photosynthesis procedure which can additionally be offered to enterprises for bio items manufacturing, FMCG and pharmaceuticals for creating energy,” he said. The group, including BTech students Anant Kumar Rajput and Deepak Deb, has likewise built up a working model of the air purifier.

 

After effectively finishing preliminaries trials, they have now petitioned for the patent and are presently in conversation with industry specialists for its commercialization. “The item, OX-C, and its higher variant OX-C 2.0 are expected to be launched by September 2020 and will cost about Rs 18,000 and Rs 25,000 individually. The group is currently algae-based face masks, which they hope to develop by mid of 2020,” Patil said.