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Elazığ/ Türkiye | Space for Change

Oxygen and Carbon Production from Greenhouse Gasses

High-Level Project Summary

In this project, our main goal is to reduce the environmental pollution in these regions by converting the CO2 gases coming out of the chimneys of the factories (especially the thermal power plants established in the regions where the marginal communities live) to carbonaceous compounds and oxalate with the help of electrochemical batteries, and to prevent the pollution of the environment where the marginal communities live from the gases coming out of the factory chimneys, and at the same time to give O2 gas to the air. . Electrical energy is generated from the waste materials. In this way, we provide employment to people on the one hand, and protect the nature on the other.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wgX92SotdV18ehBlBrZeIicdG6FZ-Igf/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107555305854933162589&rtpof=true&sd=true

Link to Final Project

http://www.anadoluss.com/

Detailed Project Description

Since the industrial revolution, the rate of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased more than ever before. The marginalized communities living around thermal power plants and factories are among those most affected by this increase. Agricultural lands, living creatures in the region, drinking water and health of these communities are adversely affected. However, the factory work continues unabated. In this context, the electrochemical batteries we have produced can produce substances and oxygen that can be used in industry by preventing the release of carbon dioxide into the air.

Let's explain in detail:

First of all, we placed copper electrode and aluminum electrode into two different compounds containing copper sulfate and aluminum sulfate, respectively. The reason we chose these materials is that the activity of copper is higher than the activity of aluminum. Here we have used a salt bridge to switch between the two to use their activity. We prepared this salt pipe as a U pipe with potassium chloride solution. In this way, electron flow from copper to aluminum took place. This allows us to separate CO2 and other (SO2, NO2) greenhouse gases into their components and to obtain carbon compounds as a precipitate.

The benefits and alternative uses of this battery we have made;

It benefits the ecosystem by converting a gas that causes global warming to oxygen, since carbon dioxide is in the reactants and oxygen in the outgoing ones,

By creating carbon compounds, we can create fuel to produce energy,

We can convert greenhouse gases such as SO2 and NO2 into oxalate,

In this way, oxalate, which is widely used in the petrochemical industry, is recycled to the industry.

By generating electricity, we make the energy considered waste reusable.

Space Agency Data

https://observablehq.com/@embreinhardt/detailed-u-s-greenhouse-gas-emissions sources

https://observablehq.com/@hepplerj/six-decades-of-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-1958-2019

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/publications/efficiency/industrial/cipec/6691

https://climate.esa.int/en/odp/#/dashboard

https://www.jpmap-jaxa.jp/jpmap/en/

Hackathon Journey

Space Apps has a process that requires us to make a project in a very short time. Therefore, as a team, we went through a stressful and demanding process. During this time, we can say that we made a kind of fate partnership as a team. This partnership of fate and the fact that we felt the same emotions in the same time periods inevitably strengthened the bonds between us. In this process, we learned to find creative ideas, to divide the work, to manage stress and of course to empathize with marginalized societies, which is the target of our challenge. The biggest reason why we chose this struggle is the increase in global warming and the natural disasters it brings with it, as well as the impact of marginalized societies, which attracted our attention and deeply affected us. With that in mind, we chose this challenge.

References

Revelle, R., & Suess, H. E. (1957). Carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere and ocean and the question of an increase of atmospheric CO2 during the past decades. Tellus, 9(1), 18-27.

Brovkin, V., Sitch, S., Von Bloh, W., Claussen, M., Bauer, E., & Cramer, W. (2004). Role of land cover changes for atmospheric CO2 increase and climate change during the last 150 years. Global Change Biology, 10(8), 1253-1266.

Hansen, J., Johnson, D., Lacis, A., Lebedeff, S., Lee, P., Rind, D., & Russell, G. (1981). Climate impact of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Science, 213(4511), 957-966.

Say, N. P. (2006). Lignite-fired thermal power plants and SO2 pollution in Turkey. Energy policy, 34(17), 2690-2701.