This low cost dust collector made by IIT Madras is simply superb
Posted on: 15/Oct/2018 10:05:15 AM - No. of views : (2905)
In our society not all of us do white collar jobs in air-conditioned offices and there are many people who work under the scorching sun and dust. These people face many respiratory plus other issues as they breathe in the dust particles every day. For the sake of these people who work under the sun and dust, IIT M or Indian Institute of Technology Madras has now come out with a splendid solution.
The machine made by the researchers of the department of civil engineering of IIT M has caught the attention of many now. Mr. S.M. Shiva Nagendra is a professor belonging to the civil engineering department of IITM and he spoke about this newly made machine. He first spoke about the name of the machine and said it was �Low Cost Dust Collector�. Later he threw light on how the machine was a tricycle fitted with 2 brushes and a small solar powered motor. The 2 brushes located in the front and back rotate in the opposite direction that is the brush in the front rotates in clockwise direction whereas the one at the back rotates in anticlockwise direction. This rotation in the opposite direction takes place when the sweeper pedals along the road.
There are as many as 6 suction pipes attached to the solar powered motors and the fine dust that is thrown up is collected by these 6 suction pipes and then stored in container. One important point is the coarse particles get pushed to the sides of the road. The main benefit of this dust collector is the sweepers would not face any respiratory issues due to inhaling in fine dust particles.
A researcher named Dheeraj Alshetty was delighted about the fact that this dust collector designed by him and others has got the ability to sweep 20kg of fine particles in just one hour. It is said that the researchers of IITM spent an amount of Rs 55000 on making the prototype for 3 months and the commercial production of this machine would be cheaper.
As per Mr. Shiva Nagendra, heavy steel was used in the prototype for making dust collector. He later hinted about using light weight aluminium sheets in place of heavy steel when the machine gets commercially manufactured. By using light weight aluminium sheets the pedalling would be much easier. He finally spoke about how the prototype was patented by the team.
