About 14 cities nationwide, including Mumbai, have been suffering from excessive pollution. In the backdrop of such a situation, a team of IIT Bombay students and professors have discovered a new process to remove carbon dioxide and harmful gasses from the air, and even won an award for the same.

How does the new process work?

In the newly discovered process, the gases emitted are permanently removed from the atmosphere and carbon dioxide emissions from industries are captured and converted into useful salts.

Global acknowledgment for the IIT Bombay team

The team of professors and students behind the discovery have received global recognition for their concept.

For their discovery, the IIT Bombay team won an international competition for which they were awarded USD 250,000 (approximately Rs 1.85 Crore).

A total of 195 teams participated in this competition, making the significance of the achievement even greater for the IIT Bombay winning team.

The winners were announced on Thursday at the COP26 summit in Glasgow Sustainable Innovation Forum.

The winning team

Srinath Iyer and Anvesha Banerjee (Ph.D. students), graduate student Srishti Bhamare, and Junior Research Fellow Shubham Kumar were part of the team that won the XPRIZE competition backed by the Elon Musk Foundation.