molekule: after son's struggle with asthma, nri invents first air purifier that kills toxins | bengaluru news - times of india - solar powered air purifier

Bengaluru: it's in the middle. 1990s.
A few months after Yogi Goswami immigrated from his hometown of Delhi to the United States for a solar career, he found his son Dilip suffering from asthma.
Yogi, now a professor at the University of South Florida, began working on a new technology because there is no existing air purifier to alleviate the problem of poor indoor air quality.
Twenty years later, when pollution became a problem in most parts of the world, his family found a possible solution: molecole.
As the first air purifier in the world to completely destroy harmful pollutants
Existing technologies can only capture such particles.
The device has made it into the 2017 list of the top 25 inventions in Time magazine. "HEPA (
High efficiency particle absorber)
Filters are still the standard technology for existing air purifiers, and unfortunately many harmful contaminants are too small to catch with HEPA filters.
This filter may collect larger contaminants such as bacteria and mold, but they remain on the surface of the filter, breed and release back into the air.
Because Molekule actually even destroys the smallest contaminants, they will be permanently removed from the air you breathe, "said Jaya Goswami Rao, Yogi's daughter and chief operating officer of Molekule.
Yogi attended school in Delhi and received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the then Delhi Institute of Engineering (
Delhi University of Science and Technology).
Dilipp and Jia were born in the United States.
Brothers and sisters together
Molekule was established to convert the patented technology developed by Yogi into consumer products.
Their purifiers are subject to patented photoelectric oxidation (PECO)
Technology is basically light.
The active nano-filter produces a catalytic reaction on the surface of the filter, decomposing contaminants at the molecular level.
Allergens, mold, bacteria, and viruses are all destroyed by this process, which can remove 1,000 times the tiny contaminants than the HEPA filter.
Jaya says third.
Party labs such as the University of Minnesota and the aerosol research Engineering Laboratory have conducted extensive testing and validation of the technology. Also, a four-
A week-long study of 49 allergic patients was conducted.
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