Despite Internet Shutdown, Kashmiri Student Invents Smoke Adsorber To Reduce Air Pollution
Numair Muzaffar is a class nine student from Burn Hall School in Srinagar and he has created a Carbonic Smoke Adsorber. His model was displayed at the Childrens Science Congress as part of the 107th Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru.
A schooler came down to Bengaluru from Kashmir to show his model for a smoke-free Kashmir.
Numair Muzaffar is a class nine student from Burn Hall School in Srinagar, and he has created a Carbonic Smoke Adsorber. This can prove to be irreplaceable in controlling air pollution.
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¡°Our project is based on the principle of ¡®Clean Air for Everyone¡¯,¡± TNIE quoted Numair, as saying. His model was displayed at the Children¡¯s Science Congress as part of the 107th Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru. The model is supposed to clean the air at a very low cost.
A carbon adsorber ¡®is a pollution control equipment that significantly reduces volatile organic compounds in low concentration streams. The pollutants flow through an activated carbon bed, trapping them on the surface.'
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The TNIE report mentions that the cylindrical structure which is equipped with an exhaust fan where the polluted air from the chimneys enters, was basically meant for homes in Kashmir.
In Kashmir Hamams and stone rooms are quite common which according to Basharat Hussain are kept warm by burning firewood below.
But the idea can be extrapolated to use in a larger factory too, he said, as they too chug out large amounts of carbon content into the air.
Numair¡¯s mother said that the model can prove to be a breakthrough in controlling air pollution in India.
Numair managed to do all this even after multiple problems faced by Kashmiris after the abrogation of article 370. There was internet shut down in the valley, and schools were closed too.
