GHGs assorter

Developed system contributes to climatic change crisis by assorting mixture of green house gases coming out of chimneys and setting a path for each where it could be efficiently used.

Industrialization, the huge use of chemical and biological pesticides, urbanization, forest fires, and inadequate waste management. Environmental health risks and pollution have been augmented by a sequence of minacious artificial and natural daily activities; those are few of them. Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death. It causes several times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Actually, the majority of these disasters is due to air pollution; and that is why we are targeting challenges associated with this type of pollution, specifically exhaust released from industrial activities. As it happens, The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 2.4 million fatalities due to air pollution each year globally.

Well, one of the most dangerous challenges facing the world is the “Climate Change”, which is caused mainly due to air pollution too. Firstly, generating electricity and heat by burning fossil fuels causes a large chunk of global emissions. Most electricity is still generated by burning coal, oil, or gas, which produces carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide-powerful greenhouse gases that blanket the Earth and trap the sun’s heat. In addition to the huge amount of CH4 & CO2 emissions caused by industrial stuff. Also, cutting down forests to create farms or pastures, or causes emissions, since trees, when they are cut, release the carbon dioxide gas they have been storing. Each year approximately 12 million hectares of forest are destroyed, leading to the huge greenhouse gasses-emissions. All of that lead to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns named in “Climate Change”

Actually, we found that these risks appears prominently among the African region, Specifically Egypt. Air pollution poses a direct threat to public health. It shortens the life expectancy of Egyptians by two years on average due to morbidity or disability. Air pollution was the cause of 90,559 premature deaths in Egypt in 2019, and more than 12% of all deaths in 2017.As known, Climate action is focused on two parallel paths: reducing carbon emissions and adapting to new climate patterns and their impacts. Because Egypt is not a country that has historically been responsible for carbon emissions, our contribution to global emissions does not exceed 1%, reducing carbon emissions is not a priority on our agenda. The irony here is that Egyptian cities, particularly Greater Cairo, suffer from severe air pollution, which means that we must indeed address emissions in urban areas. The main source of air pollution in Egypt comes from the particulate matter of both PM2.5 and PM10 varieties. They mainly come from transportation, industry and the open burning of solid organic waste material. Given its close proximity to the desert regions surrounding the country, a large portion of dust is blown in from the surrounding lands. The air quality in Cairo varies between 10 and 100 times more polluted than the worldwide acceptable standards. And this is actually a thing that necessitates to be considered. 

GHGs assorter works on splitting the greenhouse gases (GHGs) and capture each of them. It focuses on the industry section. In which the emissions from the chimney of a factory will be directed into dust removals, after removing the dust we will be left with the GHGs.

Directly from the dust removals the gases will temporarily be stored in a container. A cylindrical shaped container shaped container with a cone composed to its bottom, and the cone will have multiple nozzles attached to it. After a while the gases are going to be arranged according to the density. The gases will then pass through the nozzles. In each nozzle is a sensor which will determine the gas. BUT how exactly does this sensor work?

The problem with greenhouse gases is absorbing infrared light, directed to space, and remitting it towards Earth which results in an increase in the temperature. However, we can use this property to our advantage by creating a sensor that is able to detect a deflection in the intensity of the IR light. A light source will transmit waves of IR across the nozzle and a detector will measure the loss of in the IR intensity. And since gases vary according to their absorption of IR the senser will be able to differentiate them.

After splitting, capturing, and storing the greenhouse gases, we are going to reuse each of them in different industries. For instance, methane gas can be reused as fuel. The recycling and the reuse of the GHGs would not only save the environment but will also help in economic prosperity. 

After deciding the problem we would address, we began choosing the people who would benefit from our project. Some will directly benefit from purchasing the product and some others would indirectly benefit.

The first are the owners of the Egyptian factories. Those people do not really care about climate change or pollution, money is their only interest. Since they do not earn money from causing pollution, the idea of earning money from preventing it would interest them. Recycling their waste and getting use of it would financially help them.

Them buying the product would result in less air pollution which, in turn, will eradicate many public health issues. Furthermore, it will limit the spread of greenhouse gases, thus benefiting the community and saving the planet.

Actually, our team is composed of six participants, six friends with high potentials and passion in what we are doing. We are all students in the “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math schools in Egypt”. As known, what makes a well-developed team is: mutual respect and chemistry, adaption, a good leader, and hard work and so. And actually, our team has these criteria and more, with a team leader has the knowledge and potential and awareness of coaching skills. Not just named as a team leader, he motivates us, know well how to make a plan and how to lead his teammates to success. In addition to these powerful skillful members, with each one suits his role. This kind of chemistry between us all, makes it very interesting to work and to give effort. Also, because we all at the same boarding school, we have the ability to adapt at any conditions as we have learned at school. We decided all to work together for a factory to live the experience of our targeted users well. And we have done, understanding not just how they work. We have known the way they live and what their goals and aspirations are.

In order to get a better view of how the targeted consumers think we needed to engage with them. We were motivated to apply for volunteering jobs in a factory. Doing that gave us an opportunity to personally talk to the factory’s owner.

Genuinely, it was an unforgettable experience, for we were able to see the two types of people we are trying to serve. The volunteering in the factory not only gave us a chance to talk to the owner but it also gave us a chance to engage with the workers. We heard stories of their sick children, most of which are suffering from cancer due to the environmental impacts. What we thought was a chance to talk to the owner, was actually a chance to feel those people. We were pretty sure they needed something to eliminate this pollution.

Although our experience with the workers was unique, talking to the owner and understating how he think made us able to predict his goals, which is mainly money. We did not want his interference in the project because we did not want his influence to affect our noble goals. 

If such system were to face barriers that would oppose the process of applying it on the required scale it would be related to the market and awareness concerns. Regardless how beneficial applying such a system would be considering environmental-wise, good interest in such pollutants, but most factories' runners have lack of awareness when it comes to choosing among the envirnomental concerns or their business, they often choose what is easier for the process, and consequently just setting the pollutants in the atmosphere would be much easier than bothering adding any outer systems that might complicate things a bit . Therefore even if GHGs assorter did prove effecincy with its functionality, it would still require a proper wave of awareness in the market. However, with the current initiatives everywhere concerned with the survival of our planet and ways of keeping it safe would definitely support such initiation of progress