Chyau Bio is using school lessons to solve waste and air pollution in Kathmandu. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. It is a lesson that many students learn in school but then forget.
However, a group of engineers has remembered this fundamental lesson and is now preparing to make an impact on Kathmandu’s air. This group of engineers is the driving force behind Chyau Bio, a company dedicated to using algae to solve Kathmandu’s air and waste problems.
Gunjan Ghimire, a Chyau Bio research engineer added a solution by asking people to give them waste in exchange of oxygen.In this idea algae found in the environment and fed it contaminated water. Here, the algae absorb it, and with enough sunlight, it produces oxygen, which we can easily release into the environment or bottle. This is all about the photosynthesis process.
Using algae to create oxygen(for pollution control):
Chyau Bio uses a wide variety of algae, both natural and mutated, in the manufacturing process. These algae variations have even recorded more than 40% of the oxygen in the controlled room environment for future projects. The vehicles on the road are the most convenient way to access carbon dioxide. The machines are collecting data, and the recorded oxygen concentration (SpO2) is at least 22% higher than the natural presence of said oxygen in the air.
This startup has developed machines that can make the process of extracting oxygen easier, more efficient, and cost-effective. The machine filter air from the 40% environment, we increase the oxygen quality while decreasing the resources required to bottle the oxygen for medical use.
The machine can be placed anywhere and scaled up or down as needed, while the machine naturally releases oxygen into the air. With the option to bottle them using a controller that they designed and built from scratch at Lalitpur’s Fab Lab.
Not only can one (of the two machines) supply contaminated water or air, but also wastewater and (black) smoke directly from the resources. After burning the plastics, the machines experimented with the wastewater and smoke from the incinerator. The plan is to feed the algae carbon dioxide (CO2), which will then convert to oxygen.
