IIT-Bombay student from J&K helps develop ventilator prototype
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It did not take long for Zulqarnain to realise that the corona pandemic is going to witness a burst in the demand for ventilators in his state. A few days after he returned home to Kashmir, this first-year student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay found out that there were merely 97 ventilators in all of Kashmir.
So, five of them, including a faculty member from the Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, started understanding what it takes to produce a ventilator. Just as they were doing so, they realized that they had developed a ventilator with their very own design. Thus was born Rudhaar, a frugal ventilator prototype.
“Our first aim was to replicate some tried and tested design with available materials but this journey led us to create our very own design. The prototype cost us Rs 20,000. But with large-scale production that rate can come down dramatically,” Zulqarnain, a first-year IIT-B’s Industrial Design Centre student, told TOI. ‘Rudhaar’ uses a stepper motor to power the ventilator in a controlled mode. The rotary motion of the actuator is converted into linear motion using a standard rack and pinion arrangement.
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