{"id":51267,"date":"2021-09-02T06:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=51267"},"modified":"2021-09-02T06:35:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T06:35:28","slug":"iit-ropar-develops-worlds-first-plant-based-smart-air-purifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/iit-ropar-develops-worlds-first-plant-based-smart-air-purifier\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Ropar develop\u2019s world\u2019s first \u2018Plant based\u2019 smart air-purifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Delhi, Sep 1  Scientists of the Indian Institutes of Technology, Ropar and Kanpur and the Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University have developed a living plant-based air purifier, \u201cUbreathe Life\u201d, that amplifies the air purification process in indoor spaces, a statement said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Ropar and Kanpur<\/strong>\u00a0and Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University have jointly launched a living-plant based air purifier named\u00a0<strong>\u201cUbreathe Life\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0This air purifier will boost the air purification process in indoor spaces, such as hospitals, schools, offices and Homes. It is the world\u2019s first, state-of-the-art \u2018Smart Bio-Filter\u2019 that can make breathing fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Budding scientists of Indian Institutes of Technology, Ropar and Kanpur and Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University have developed a living-plant based air purifier \u201cUbreathe Life\u201d that amplifies the air purification process in the indoor spaces, including hospitals, schools and offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IIT Ropar\u2019s startup company, Urban Air Laboratory, that has developed the product claims it to be world\u2019s first, state-of-the-art \u2018Smart Bio-Filter\u2019 that can make breathing fresh. It has been incubated at IIT Ropar, which is a designated iHub &#8212; AWaDH (Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub) by the Department of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Ubreathe Life:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Ubreathe Life technology works through the air-purifying natural leafy plants. The room air interacts with leaves and goes to the soil-root zone where maximum pollutants are purified.<\/li><li>It has been developed by the IIT Ropar incubated startup, Urban Air Laboratory. The specific plants tested for air-purification include&nbsp;<strong>Peace Lily, Snake Plant, Spider plant etc.<\/strong>&nbsp;and all have given good results in purifying indoor-air, the company has claimed.<\/li><li>The purifier effectively improves indoor air quality by removing particulate, gaseous and biological contaminants while increasing the oxygen levels in the indoor space through specific plants, UV disinfection and a stack of&nbsp;<strong>Pre-filter, Charcoal filter<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>HEPA (high efficiency particulate air)<\/strong>&nbsp;filter fitted in a specially designed wooden box, the company has said about the air purifier\u2019s functioning mechanism.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Sep 1 Scientists of the Indian Institutes of Technology, Ropar and Kanpur and the Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University have developed a living plant-based air purifier, \u201cUbreathe Life\u201d, that amplifies the air purification process in indoor spaces, a statement said on Wednesday. Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Ropar and Kanpur\u00a0and Faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":51268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417],"tags":[1422],"class_list":["post-51267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2021","tag-plant-based-smart-air-purifier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51269,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267\/revisions\/51269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}