Smog Tower
- August 2, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Environment
Context:
Supreme Court has directed two smog towers should be installed in the capital by April on a pilot project basis. But the deadline is not met.
Concept:
- A smog tower is a structure designed to work as a large-scale air purifier, fitted with multiple layers of filters which trap fine dust particles suspended in the air as it passes through them.
- Air is drawn through fans installed at the top of the tower, passed through filters, and then released near the ground.
- The large-scale filters would use carbon nano fibres as a major component, and would be fitted along the peripheries of the towers.