Important for IAS~IFoS Prelims Exam 2022, CDS Exam and AC(CAPF) Exam
šĀ IIT Roparās startup company introduces Worldās first āPlant basedā smart air-purifier āUbreathe Lifeā.
šĀ Budding scientists of Indian Institutes of Technology, Ropar and Kanpur and Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University have developed a living-plant based air purifier āUbreathe Lifeā that amplifies the air purification process in the indoor spaces.Ā
šĀ IIT Roparās startup company, Urban Air Laboratory, that has developed the product claims it to be worldās first, state-of-the art āSmart Bio-Filterā that can make breathing fresh.
šĀ It has been incubated at IIT Ropar, which is a designated iHub – AWaDH (Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub) by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
šĀ The technology works through the air-purifying natural leafy plant.
šThe room-air interacts with leaves and goes to the soil-root zone where maximum pollutants are purified
šĀ The novel technology used in this product is āUrban Munnar Effectā along with patent pending āBreathing Rootsā to exponentially amplify the phytoremediation process of the plants.
šĀ Phytoremediation is a process by which plants effectively remove pollutants from the air.
šĀ Ubreathe Lifeā effectively improves indoor air quality by removing particulate, gaseous and biological contaminants while increasing the oxygen levels in the indoor space through specific plants, UV disinfection and a stack of Pre-filter, Charcoal filter and HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filter fitted in a specially designed wooden box
šĀ According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report the indoor air spaces are five times more polluted than outdoor air space.
šĀ That is a cause of concern especially in the present Covid pandemic times.
šA research, which has recently been published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), calls upon the governments to alter building designs by fixing air changes per hour (a measure of room ventilation with outdoor air). The āUbreathe Lifeā can be a solution to this concern.
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