AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being, Climate Action
KEYWORDS
pollution, ectoine, running, nebuliser, protection
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Wojtek Rosiak
WEBSITE
https://graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk/projects/4268/cover
Aer Nebuliser
A nebuliser designed using Ectoine to protect the runner from pollution.
Aer_Nebuliser for Runners & Athletes • This concept was born from everyday life in London. Pollution levels have always been apparent to me as a runner and due to the health effects I wanted to prevent further problems arising until the country is at a greener point in its history. Think of this as an interim solution with many potential applications.
Air pollution is a significant health, economic and environmental problem for the UK. In London, air pollution contributes to in excess of 9,400 premature deaths every year and costs the health system between £1.4 and £3.7 billion per year. Further analysis of the core products that lie at the heart of this problem helped me understand the bigger picture. I was not going to eradicate this with one product; however, I could help slow the effects. I decided to focus on the most vulnerable groups of people, gaining valuable information from cyclists, runners, asthmatics and the elderly who all approached the problem in a different way.