4 female students invent a mechanism to benefit from factory smoke in agriculture

Four female students have invented a mechanism to recycle factory smoke and use it to grow plants, “to reduce air pollution and reduce the phenomenon of global warming,” in addition to growing large areas of plants inside greenhouses.

The students: Fatima Abdullah, Rawda Murad, Iman Saleh, and Latifa Hamad, are in the twelfth grade, in the advanced track, at Sakina Bint Al Hussein Secondary School for Secondary Education in Dubai.

The innovation is based on “extracting harmful carbon dioxide from smoke and transferring it to plants to complete the photosynthesis process, which is the basis for plant growth.”

The process is done by connecting a set of pipes to the smoke outlets in factories, and strengthening them with a set of purifying filters, and connecting them from the other end to the greenhouses, which contain the plants, where the polluted smoke is directed to the filter, and filtered with the presence of anhydrous copper sulphate, which extracts water vapor and produces carbon dioxide, for the benefit of the plants that grow in a suitable environment, which can produce agricultural crops of various types and varieties.

The idea achieves three main goals: purifying the air by reducing the pollution rate resulting from factory smoke, reducing the phenomenon of global warming, and benefiting from factory smoke, which is produced in large quantities, in rebuilding the life cycle.

The project was supervised by teachers Sonia Sami and Moza Al Shamsi, who specialize in physics and biology, and was presented at the Ministry of Education’s Student Projects Exhibition.

For her part, the school principal, Sherifa Hezam, said that the school administration worked on developing a special methodology to enhance the innovation and creativity skills of its students, and to provide all the capabilities that creative students need to produce quality projects and innovations that serve society and humanity in the first place.