ALGAEZONE.| A One Health Approach

A One Health Approach

Air pollution is a major global environmental health risk, causing an estimated seven million deaths across the globe annually. Your challenge is to take an interdisciplinary approach, using both Earth science and health science, and integrate different types of datasets and applications to study the effects of air pollution.

OXYGEN AND LIFE SIDE BY SIDE - OXYGEN PRODUCTION WITH MICROALGAES

Summary

We have designed a product to increase the oxygen level in the environment. we used blue-green microalgae, producing the most oxygen in our world. Our product is cylinder-shaped and inside will be spiral-shaped transparent tube pipe. In the pipes, there will be a mixture of algae and chemical+water. The water in the pipes will be recirculated by the pump. Since algae need light to photosynthesize, we used the red light to get the best results in photosynthesis. Hence, algae will produce oxygen, and it will be released into the environment. We won't have to change algae because they reproduce fast. A kit including chemicals will be needed in certain times to be discharged into the water.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our challenge (a one health approach) is to take an interdisciplinary approach, using both Earth science and health science. One of the most important steps to decrease negative effects of air pollution is increasing the oxygen amount. So we developed a product to make it. As a result of our research, we have found that algae are one of the most important oxygen sources in the world. So we decided to use this property of algae to increase oxygen ratio, especially in crowded habitats.

How We Developed This Project

As we search the challenges, we looked at the resources that space apps challenge offers us. When we examined the data at WHO, we learned that air pollution can kill people even with the breathing we need most, and it cause a lot of death. In order to solve this problem, we tried to increase the amount of oxygen in the environments where people are located, at least thinking that we can't prevent a lot of things that cause air pollution on our own.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We use WHO and GHO data.

Project Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ygwoLtrwGI

Project Code
Data & Resources
  1. WHO (World Health Organization)
  2. GHO (Global Health Organization)
  3. Tecamgroup.com
  4. Oxygenworldwide.com
  5. realtor.com
  6. Ourworldindata.com
Tags
#airpollution #airquallity #aonehealthapproach #algaeforoxygen
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.