Sootousters

Recirculation Fabric

High-Level Project Summary

We developed a Carbon Dioxide absorbent fiber. Their Cellulosic Fiber will be coated with amine radiation-induced and chemically initiated graft polymerization with three amine-based monomers. Chemisorbing systems commonly use the reaction driven by the primary or secondary amine absorption reaction with CO2. These sorbents capture CO2 through intermolecular dispersion interactions between the Cellulosic fibers and the CO2 molecules trapped in small pores. It is possible to absorb about 18-44 grams of carbon dioxide per kg. In the future, we will try a more efficient way to capture Carbon Dioxide through our process.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g-dAo__nuk

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/BlurMinded/Sootousters

Detailed Project Description

About Us :

Hello, everyone! Welcome to our project. We are team Sootousters. Our team members are - Shazed Muntashir Ovi, Sumaiya Parvez Pranti, Arpon Chowdhury, Kaneez Fatema, and Suvojit Das. Our challenge is Categories on "Space for Change". Let’s introduce our project. Our project name is "Recirculation Fabric".

Introduction :

Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. It's the only planet known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of water on its surface, and of course life. But Air pollution has been recognized as the largest global environmental health risk, causing an estimated seven million deaths across the globe annually according to the World Health Organization. There are many gases like CO2, CO, NOx, CFC, etc., and dust which are the main reasons for air pollution. We want to mitigate the harmful gases and substances caused by air pollution as much as possible. Carbon dioxide is one such element.

Problem and Remedy :

In past, the carbon cycle has changed on Earth in response to climate change. Ice ages developed when Northern Hemisphere summers cooled and ice built up on land, which in turn slowed the carbon cycle. Meanwhile, a number of factors including cooler temperatures and increased phytoplankton growth may have increased the amount of carbon the ocean took out of the atmosphere. Similarly, at the end of the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose dramatically as temperatures warmed.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when people first started burning fossil fuels, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have risen from about 280 parts per million to 387 parts per million, a 39 percent increase. This means that for every million molecules in the atmosphere, 387 of them are now carbon dioxide--the highest concentration in two million years. The amount of solar energy received by the Earth has followed the Sun’s natural 11-year cycle of small ups and downs with no net increase since the 1950s. Over the same period, global temperature has risen markedly. It is therefore extremely unlikely that the Sun has caused the observed global temperature warming trend over the past half-century.

The broad consensus among climate scientists is that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are causing temperatures to warm, sea levels to rise, oceans to grow more acidic, and rainstorms, droughts, floods, and fires to become more severe. From the CDC report of Flavorings Related Lung Disease, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has a Recommended exposure limit for carbon dioxide not to exceed five thousand ppm over an 8-hour TWA and a 15-minute TWA STEL of thirty thousand ppm for carbon dioxide in the workplace air.

Our Idea and Solution :

Hence, Carbon Dioxide is harmful to our environment and body. For that concern, we developed a carbon dioxide absorbent fiber. Their Cellulosic Fiber will be coated with amine radiation-induced and chemically initiated graft polymerization with three amine-based monomers. Chemisorbing systems commonly use the reaction driven by primary or secondary amines to capture CO2. This mechanism exhibits an enthalpy of reaction of 80killo joules per mole at 40 °C and is therefore energetically favorable. The primary or secondary amine absorption reaction with CO2 follows two steps: CO2 binds to an amine to form a zwitterion, then another amine deprotonates the zwitterion. These sorbents capture CO2 through intermolecular dispersion interactions between the Cellulosic fibers and the CO2 molecules trapped in small pores. The captured CO2 may be released in gas form. At a temperature slightly high than obtaining ambient condition. The release of CO2 can be captured in a closed vessel. If we can use it in the Carbon Emitting Factories, then it is possible to absorb about 18-44 grams of carbon dioxide per kg.

Future Plan :

In the future, we will try a more efficient way to capture carbon dioxide through our process. We also studied some other particles that cause our air pollution. We will also try to mitigate other polluting particles from the air through our idea. We will study how we can use our polluting agent in the proper way for our future without the emission of CO2.

Space Agency Data

We have used National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) & CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY (CSA) space agency data in our project. We used NASA earth observatory and climate image and statistical data. We also used CDC health data to the estimated disease for Carbon Dioxide. NASA's climate change geographics data and news on climate change molecules influenced us to concern about that topic. From this inspiration, we tried to mitigate Carbon Dioxide from the air through our idea. We hope our world can get help through our system and in the future, clean air can be achieved.

Hackathon Journey

Hello, this is team Sootousters. We're very glad to be a part of the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2021. Thanks, Basis for arranging this year's second all-virtual annual event which has created a great opportunity for learning and exploring for us. This competition has helped us to divert our minds from the ongoing pandemic situation and innovate something new. In this competition, the contribution of our team members Shazed Muntashir, Arpon Chowdhury, Sumaiya Parvez Pranti, Kaneez Fatema, and Suvojit Das was really appreciable. All our team members have worked hard and done their respective jobs with so much dedication and enthusiasm. We would like to especially thank Mohammad Mahdee-uz Zaman Apu Sir and all our honorable mentors who have helped us throughout the journey. They've helped us to develop ideas regarding our project and tried their best to solve our problems.

References

Global Judging

This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.