High-Level Project Summary
Our project works as an efficient air filtration system. It filters the smoke a rocket produces during launch and neutralizes the harmful chemicals from it. It has the capability to reduce the air pollution created by the rocket smoke by an exponential amount.
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Detailed Project Description
We think, we are working on a project that no one has worked on before, that's why the team is special to us. The main story of our project is that we took the idea of the project from the vacuum cleaner. Our team is very sincere about this project as it will work to prevent air pollution. The main goal of our project is to emit a lot of smoke when the rocket launches. All these fumes are taken to the underground by a device to filter and neutralize the harmful substances. All rocket motors burning hydrocarbon fuels generate soot. Solid rocket engines, such as those used in the past in the boosters of NASA's space shuttle, burn metallic compounds and emit aluminum oxide particles together with hydrochloric acid, both of which have a damaging effect on the atmosphere.
The various rocket engine propellants produce different emissions. The most common gaseous emissions are water vapor and carbon dioxide from liquid and solid fuels, as well as hydrochloric acid from only solid fuels. Which has detrimental effects on biodiversity. Martin Ross, lead author of the report "The World's Tallest Rockets: How They Stack Up", noted the problems caused by rocket smoke and said the scientific community would be keen to run atmospheric models at the event - especially because the pace of rocket launches is expected to ramp up significantly in the coming decades. In that case, we think our project will play a helpful role in preventing air pollution caused by rocket smoke. We will replace our device around the rocket station in such a way that the surrounding smoke can be brought underground when the rocket is launched. After being taken underground, the fumes will be deactivated through two processes.
Step-1. Filtering rocket fumes. The carbon filter will do the job of filtering. With the help of the turbine, the smoke from the rocket will flow through the carbon filter and the smoke will be carbonized through it.
Step 2. Once carbon is not released from rocket smoke, the gases will be transported to a chamber through a cooling copper tube. Chemicals from the air will accumulate there. Harmful chemicals will then be separated from the smoke and stored in a cell to neutralize them.
Since we will replace this device with a rocket station, it will be able to reduce much of the problem caused by the large amount of smoke during rocket launch. Our project is in the early stages. If research can be done on this, then hopefully good results can be obtained from this project.
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Space Agency Data
Our dream is to work with NASA. We always saw when the rockets flew, there was a lot of smoke coming out of the rockets. Since then we have been thinking about how to protect the environment by reducing these fumes. In the near future, the amount of rocket flight will increase and the amount of air pollution through these fumes will also increase. So we continue to collect a variety of information online to solve the problem. Currently our project is in the early stages. We need more research on this project. We have taken the main idea of our project from the concept of vacuum cleaner. We will create our project by adding a few components. We hope NASA will help us in this research and help us move our project forward.
Hackathon Journey
The experience has been enlightening so far. We learned to work efficiently as well as various things related to the project. Our team was able to solve most of the problems through brain storming, adequate research as well as hard work to get to our goals. I would like to thank my teammates and my mentor for always having my back and keeping the morale high which was necessary for the completion and the success of our project.
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#spaceforchange #rocketpollution #bangladesh #unknown solving #reducingrocket'ssmoke
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