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Engineering student from Mumbai designs cool PPE kit with ventilation

<span style="color: #222222;">The personal protective equipment PPE which Doctors and other medical staff wear, undoubtedly provides a shield of protection from COVID-19, but the PPE also has certain disadvantages, like excessive sweating, dehydration and fatigue.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">An engineering student of a Mumbai based college has come to the rescue of the front line staff by inventing a cool PPE kit.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The innovative PPE kit designed by the student has brought much-needed relief.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, Nihaal Singh Adarsh an engineering student of K.J. Somaiya college has invented a a ventilation system for PPE Kit. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to Nihaal, the Cov-Tech ventilation system takes the surrounding air filters it and pushes it into the PPE suit.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Talking to AIR, he said there was an open design challenge for COVID-related solutions, organized by Technological Business Incubator, Research Innovation Incubation Design Laboratory which was the first trigger point of coming up with this invention.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Apart from this, he also used to hear from his doctor mother on the difficulty she and other doctors faced while wearing a PPE kit throughout the day.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">With guidance from Dr. Ulhas Kharul of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Nihaal was able to develop the first model in 20 days.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Rutwik helped Nihaal to design his 2D sketches into the 3D models and Sayli on her part looked after digital marketing and handling of their website. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Aiming to sell this "cool PPE kit" as it is prominently called across the country, Nihaal says that he would be cent percent satisfied when he would see all doctors wear this innovative PPE kit.</span><br />''  

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