{"id":87044,"date":"2019-11-27T17:13:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T11:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11954"},"modified":"2019-11-27T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T11:43:16","slug":"to-tackle-pollution-smog-tower-to-come-up-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/to-tackle-pollution-smog-tower-to-come-up-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"To tackle pollution, smog tower to come up in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,the Supreme Court has directed the Centre and the Delhi government to draw up a comprehensive plan to install \u2018smog towers\u2019 across Delhi to deal with air pollution.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Smog Towers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Smog towers are structures designed to work as large-scale air purifiers.<\/li><li>They are usually fitted with multiple layers of air filters, which clean the air of pollutants as it passes through them.<\/li><li>China has the world\u2019s largest smog tower and has reduced the particulate matter pollution by 19% in an area of around 6 sq km in the tower\u2019s vicinity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Smog Tower in Delhi:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The smog tower project in Delhi will be headed by the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay in collaboration with IIT-Delhi and the University of Minnesota.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The smog tower is expected to reduce particulate matter by 50% in the area.<\/li><li>The smog tower filters being installed would use carbon nanofibres as a major component.However,the proposed smog tower is focused only on reducing particulate matter load at present.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Smog:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Smog is derived from two words i.e smoke and fog which is also described as the type of fog having smoke or soot particles in it or a mixture of various gases with dust and water vapour and makes breathing difficult.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It is a yellowish or blackish fog mainly formed by a mixture of air pollutants like nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides and some other organic compounds that combine with sunlight to form ozone.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,the Supreme Court has directed the Centre and the Delhi government to draw up a comprehensive plan to install \u2018smog towers\u2019 across Delhi to deal with air pollution. Facts: About Smog Towers: Smog towers are structures designed to work as large-scale air purifiers. They are usually fitted with multiple layers of air filters, which clean&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/to-tackle-pollution-smog-tower-to-come-up-in-delhi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To tackle pollution, smog tower to come up in Delhi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4292,4776],"class_list":["post-87044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-delhi","tag-smog-tower","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700203294},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}