The Paris climate agreement has motivated global industries to shift towards sustainable alternatives. However, the construction industry lags in this endeavor. It uses cement and bricks that produce large amounts of co2 emissions and hence, causes global warming. Moreover, our brick industry not only destroys our climate by producing nearly half of our total co2 emissions but also enslaves more than 5 million bonded laborers including young children and women. These laborers girls undergo forced marriages, over torture, and rapes. Enslaving such a large part of our own population hardly sounds like a successful recipe for a country to develop. Ecostabilizer aims to transform this energy-hogging and ruthless construction industry into a sustainable and human-friendly industry. We do this by producing self-healing construction blocks with zero carbon footprint that will replace conventional construction materials like bricks and cement.
About Innovator
Name : Muhammad Sohail Ashraf City : Bahawalpur Province: Punjab University : Universiti Teknologi Petronas Malaysia Details :
Pakistan is an agrarian country with huge biomass resource which is not used efficiently and causes pollution in the form of rice straw burning in Punjab leading to smog, smoke, and toxic particulate matter air pollution while at the same time 30% of its population still lack access to electricity and a vast majority of the country faces natural gas (Sui gas) load shedding in winter for domestic and industrial uses and forces the country to import fuel in the form of LPG, LNG, furnace oil, and crude oil. While on the other hand, the productivity of smallholder farms is low due to poor soil and limited profitability, low-paid jobs, and in-efficient resources. All these problems can be addressed by using our advanced thermochemical conversion technology which converts biomass and other mixed waste into electricity, heat, and biochar. Biochar is recognized by the united nations (IPCC) as a carbon sequestration tool while it also enhances the soil carbon matter to increase soil productivity.
About Innovator
Name :Dr Muhammad Saghir City : Islamabad Province: Punjab University : Details :
