SMOG FREE TOWER is for clean air led to reduce air pollution and provide an

inspirational experience of a clean future, including a series of urban innovations

such as the SMOG FREE TOWER which provide a local solution of clean air in
public spaces

It may be a 7-meter tall SMOG FREE TOWER that uses patented positive
ionisation technology or similar concept of Electrostatic precipitator to produce
smog free air in public spaces, allowing people to breathe and experience clean air
for free. It may equipped with environment-friendly technology, may cleans
30.000 m3 per hour and uses a small amount of green electricity. The SMOG
FREE TOWER provides a local solution for clean air such as in parks.
Rapid rise in air pollution all over the places in general and in cities in particular
has worsened smog occurrence and extended its duration. Smog is basically
derived from the merging of two words; smoke and fog. Smog is also used to
describe the type of fog which has smoke or soot in it. Smog is a yellowish or
blackish fog formed mainly by a mixture of pollutants in the atmosphere which
consists of fine particles and ground level ozone. Smog which occurs mainly
because of air pollution can also be defined as a mixture of various gases with dust
and water vapor. Smog also refers to hazy air that makes breathing difficult. The
atmospheric pollutants or gases that form smog are released in the air when fuels
are burnt. When sunlight and its heat react with these gases and fine particles in the
atmosphere, smog is formed. It is purely caused by air pollution. Ground level
ozone and fine particles are released in the air due to complex photochemical
reactions between volatile organic compounds (VOC), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and
nitrogen oxides (NOx). These VOC, SO2and NOx are called precursors. The main
sources of these precursors are pollutants released directly into the air by gasoline
and diesel-run vehicles, industrial plants and activities, and heating due to human
activities.

Smog is often caused by heavy traffic, high temperatures, sunshine and calm
winds. These are few of the factors behind increasing level of air pollution in
atmosphere. During the winter months when the wind speeds are low, it helps the
smoke and fog to become stagnate at a place forming smog and increasing
pollution levels near the ground closer to where people are respiring. It hampers
visibility and disturbs the environment. The time that smog takes to form depends
directly on the temperature. Temperature inversions are situations when warm air
does not rise instead stays near the ground. During situations of temperature
inversions if the wind is calm, smog may get trapped and remain over a place for
days. But it is also true that smog is more severe when it occurs farther away from
the sources of release of pollutants. This is because the photo chemical reactions
that cause smog take place in the air when the released pollutants from heavy
traffic drift due to the wind. Smog can thus affect and prove to be dangerous for
suburbs, rural areas as well as urban areas or large cities. Smog is a devastating
problem especially due to the fast modernization or industrialization as the
hazardous chemicals involved in smog formation are highly reactive is spread
around in the atmosphere.
Effects of Smog

When a city or town gets covered in smog, the effects are felt immediately. Smog
is harmful and it is evident from the components that form it and effects that can
happen from it. It is harmful to humans, animals, plants and the nature as a whole.
The human body faces great difficulty in defending itself against the harmful
effects of smog. Many people deaths were recorded, notably those relating to
bronchial diseases. The highly affected people include old people, kids and those
with cardiac and respiratory complications as they have easy tendency to be at
disadvantage of asthma.

 Heavy smog is responsible for decreasing the UV radiation greatly which

results in a low production of the crucial natural element                  vitamin
D leading to cases of rickets among people
 Smog can be responsible for any ailment from minor pains to deadly
pulmonary diseases such as lung cancer
 Smog is well known for causing irritation in the eye
 It may also result in inflammation in the tissues of lungs; giving rise to pain
in the chest
 Other issues or illnesses such as cold and pneumonia are also related to
smog
 Minor exposure to smog can lead to greater threats of asthma attacks; people
suffering from asthma problems must avoid exposure
 Smog also causes pre-mature deaths and affects densely populated areas
building it up to dangerous levels
 The ground level ozone present in the smog also inhibits plant growth and
causes immense damage to crops and forests
 Crops, vegetables like soybeans, wheat, tomatoes, peanuts, and cotton are
subject to infection when they are exposed to smog
 The smog results in mortifying impacts on environment by killing
innumerable animal species and green life as these take time to adapt to
breathing and surviving in such toxic environments
Controlling smog

We all know about the concepts like less cars, clean technologies, more bicycling,
etc. but somehow we are still stuck in this polluted situation. It can be reduced by
implementing modifications in present day lifestyle, i.e., by decreasing the
consumption of non-renewable fuels by replacing them with alternate sources of
fuel which will reduce toxic emissions from vehicles. Instead of vigorous efforts
and debates, occurrence of smog is not stopping and everybody is looking towards
other to make his/her activities environmental friendly but without much success.
Therefore, methods to remove smog creating pollutants along with stopping the
activities to produce these pollutants should be looked into in order to control the
smog for a livable environment.

The technology powering the Smog Free Tower is based on air-purification

systems in hospitals often use to clean air—attracting particles of pollution through
static electricity—but on a larger scale. The Smog Free tower cleans the air by
sucking in smog from the top and releasing filtered air through its six-sided vents.
By charging the Smog Free Tower with a small positive current, an electrode will
send positive ions into the air. These ions will attach themselves to fine dust
particles. A negatively charged surface—the counter electrode—will then draw the
positive ions in, together with the fine dust particles. The fine dust that would
normally harm us is collected together with the ions and stored inside of the tower.
This technology manages to capture ultra-fine smog particles which regular filter
systems fail to do.

After the tower collects piles of black powder, it may turned into simple square
rings with a cube of compressed pollution. Every ring holds as much smog as
1,000 cubic meters of city air.

The tower may produce 3,500 smog cubes per day if it's in an area with a lot of air
pollution, and each one of the cubes cleans over 35,000 cubic feet of air — ideally
translating to nearly 123 million cubic feet of clean air per day. The giant smog-
sucking vacuum cleaner runs on just 1,400 watts—no more electricity than a water
boiler—using a low-energy patented ionization technology and LEDs to make the
tower glow at night. It creates bubbles of clean air around the tower and people can
experience clean air for free, and sense what a clean air future is. The tower as a
'clean air temple' so it has a strong iconic but also per formative value. It captures
the ultra-fine smog, something standard existing systems cannot capture yet