A novel technique for production of paint from the diesel exhaust soot

摘要

Air Pollution is the most crucial problem worldwide causing health issues, global warming and even extinction to wildlife Species. PM2.5 particles are tinnier than the red blood cells, behave almost like a gas and sweep into lungs, get accumulated causing serious lung disorders. Only a very few industries follow legitimate process to eradicate the captured waste leading to pollution. The article presents a way to get best out of the waste, harvest from the air pollution and make world a pollution free place to live in. The idea is to constrain and bind the captured pollution into high grade products which is useful to the livelihood. The article presents the design and fabrication of the soot collector, to collect soot from four stroke diesel internal combustion engine, the soot was tested using Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy method to find the percentage of the carbon content present in the soot. The soot collected is converted into ink and paint using chemicals like rubbing alcohol, with a co-surfactant, cocamidopropyl betaine in water and then made into a carbon compound.