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%.
Training Reimagined - Indonesia
In Indonesia, the team has just completed their Train-the-Trainer programme ahead of the first cycle of NXplorers programmes in schools later this year.
Training Reimagined - Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, the team has just completed their Train-the-Trainer programme ahead of a first-of-its-kind NXplorers programme with teachers this year.
CRITICAL THINKING - THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE
When we combine different perspectives we close the gaps in the bigger picture and fill the different blind spots that every person has - try this exercise to see where your blind spots are.