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Design and Performance Evaluation of a Solar-Powered Air Purification System Using Activated Carbon
Roopesh Kumar Sinha1
Arun Kumar Sao2
Pankaj Sharma3
Ritesh Kumar4, Abhishek4
Ajay Kumar Karma, Dashrath Panjhare5
Kartikey Padhi, Poonam Mourya6
1 2 3 Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NMDC DAV Polytechnic Dantewada (C.G.), India. 4 5 6 Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NMDC DAV Polytechnic Dantewada (C.G.), India.
Published Online: May-June 2026
Pages: 204-215
Cite this article
↗ https://www.doi.org/10.59256/ijsreat.20260603031
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John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
2. W. C. Hinds, Aerosol Technology: Properties, Behaviour, and Measurement of Airborne Particles, 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: Wiley-
Interscience, 1999.
3. H. Marsh and F. Rodríguez-Reinoso, Activated Carbon. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier Science, 2006.
4. D. Y. H. Pui, H. Chen, and Z. Zuo, “PM2.5 in China: Measurements, sources, visibility and health effects, and mitigation,” Particuology,
vol. 13, pp. 1–26, 2014.
5. World Health Organization (WHO), Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing Clean Air. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Press, 2018.
6. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-Based Solutions. Nairobi, Kenya:
UNEP, 2019.
7. M. S. Bhatia and R. C. Bansal, Activated Carbon Adsorption. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2018.
8. A. Demirbas, “Biomass resource facilities and biomass conversion processing for fuels and chemicals,” Energy Conversion and
Management, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 1357–1378, 2001.
9. T. M. Letcher, Future Energy: Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for Our Planet, 3rd ed. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, 2020.
10. S. Kalogirou, Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, 2nd ed. Oxford, U.K.: Academic Press, 2014.
11. C. David Cooper and F. C. Alley, Air Pollution Control: A Design Approach, 5th ed. Long Grove, IL, USA: Waveland Press, 2011.
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Publications, 2022.
13. A. C. Stern, Air Pollution, Vol. 1: Air Pollutants, Their Transformation and Transport. New York, NY, USA: Academic Press, 2017.
14. B. H. Liu and R. H. Jordan, “The interrelationship and characteristic distribution of direct, diffuse and total solar radiation,” Solar Energy,
vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1–19, 1960.
15. Y. Wang, J. Li, and X. Zhang, “Performance evaluation of activated carbon filtration systems for indoor air purification,” Jo urnal of
Environmental Engineering, vol. 145, no. 8, pp. 1–10, 2019.
16. Z. Huang, Y. Zhang, and X. Li, “Performance evaluation of activated carbon-based air purification systems for VOC removal,”
Environmental Technology & Innovation, vol. 24, pp. 101–112, 2021.
17. M. Sharma, R. Kumar, and S. Gupta, “Solar-powered air purification technologies: A review of recent developments,” Renewable and
Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 152, pp. 111–125, 2021.
18. J. Wang, L. Chen, and H. Zhao, “Indoor air quality improvement using adsorption-based filtration systems,” Building and Environment,
vol. 207, pp. 108–119, 2022.
19. S. Verma and P. Singh, “Recent advances in activated carbon materials for environmental applications,” Journal of Environmental
Chemical Engineering, vol. 10, no. 4, 2022.
20. A. Patel and K. Shah, “Experimental investigation of low-cost air filtration systems for rural applications,” Environmental Science and
Pollution Research, vol. 30, pp. 14500–14515, 2023.
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