SSC CPO 2019 PYQ — Question 92

SSC CPO Tier I - 13th December 2019 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q92

Who among the following invented a device called PM 2.5 which when fitted near the silencer pipe in vehicles will curb air pollution?

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct option is option 3 i.e. Debayan Saha.

Debayan Saha Debayan Saha, a mechanical engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur, who has invented the device claims that one car fitted with the device can neutralise the pollution emitted from 10 cars in its vicinity.
  The technology developed by us uses a combination of electric energy and wave energy to influence the pollutants like PM 2.5 such that they act like a magnet attracting other particulate pollutants from the ambient atmosphere to get attached to it. 
  As they grow bigger in size they become heavy and fall off safely on the ground like soil.