Every year, NXplorers runs awards programmes across the globe, celebrating the work of students and showcasing their impactful projects to their peers, their teachers and mentors as well as the wider community. This year in Trinidad one winner Kaveer Phillips used NXthinking tools and learned to reimagine a carbon capture device to reduce emissions in engines.
The challenge
Using NXthinking tools, Kaveer Phillips explored how we can get closer to Carbon Net Zero without negatively affecting the energy sector – focusing in on the combustion engine as a major source of pollution, but an essential part of our energy economy.
The plan
Exploring existing infrastructure, Phillips identified vehicular emissions as a major opportunity for impact reduction, specifically within the exhaust fumes emitted from the engines of road vehicles.
The solution
Through the creation of a ‘Carbon Capture Filter’ prototype that removes a large volume of CO2 from the fumes emitted from engines, Phillips predicts that it could reduce carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles by up to 90%.
REIMAGINING MAGNETIC FORCES AS A SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM
NXplorers students in Qatar Science & Technology School for Boys, in Doha, reimagined magnetic forces to develop a solution that reduced the acidity of native soil.
Singapore: Hydrobox water harvesting
This year in Singapore, Team Hydrogen Bond, used NXthinking tools like the Connections Circle Feasibility Funnel to identify a low energy method of harvesting clean water for the growth of crops.
Qatar: Water filtration & emissions
This year in Qatar Team Elite used the NXthinking tools they learned to reimagine the ways in which water and energy interact to deliver water to the people of Qatar.