REVA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

AND MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
AIR-INK

8th sem technical seminar

Seminar Guide:
Presented By: BALAJI.S
B.M.RAGHUNANDANA RAGHAVA ASST.Prof
1RE13ME035 Dept Of MECH
 AIR-INK
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HISTORY
3. BLOCK DIAGRAM OF AIR-INK
4. ABOUT KAALINK
5. PROCESS OF AIR-INK
6. HARVESTING POLLUTION & CREATING INK
7. THE AIR-INK RANGE TYPES
8. ADVANTAGES
9. FEATURES
10.CONCLUSION
11.FUTURE SCOPE
12.A SHORT VIDEO ON AIR-INK PROCESS
13.A FULL VIDEO ON AIR-INK PROCESS
 INTRODUCTION

1. Air Ink is an Indian start up brand which produces ink and ink-
based art products by condensing soot-based gaseous effluents
generated by motor vehicles due to incomplete combustion of fossil
fuels.
2. Recycling environmental air pollution and convert it to
paint/pigments and printing ink
3. Founded by Graviky labs, a spin-off group of MIT-MEDIA LAB.
4. ANIRUDH SHARMA is founder of Graviky lab.
5. Firstly AIR-INK products were used in august 2016 in association
with TIGER BEER to create STREET ART.
6. It mainly used a device called KAALNK which captures carbon
emission from vehicles or chimneys before it enters into
atmosphere.
 HISTORY

1.Anirudh Sharma, founder of Gravity

Labs, first conceived the idea of Air
Ink in 2013.
2.In 2016, Air Ink products were
commercially available to graphic
artists.
 BLOCK DIAGRAM OF AIR-INK

INTRODUCING AIR-INK.
THE FIRST INK MADE ENTIRELY
OUT OF AIR POLLUTION.
THE TECHNOLOGY
We partnered with scientist Anirudh Sharma of Graviky Labs to innovate devices that collected pollution from
exhausts before it reached our air.

THE HARDWARE
The unit automatically turns on when an engine is activated and gases start flowing through the exhaust. This
activates the flow and thermo sensor, which, in turn, engages a mechatronic capture system. All fine particle matter
is then captured within the walls of the unit; however, gases are allowed to pass through, leaving the engine
unaffected. When the lights on the exterior of the unit turn from blue to red, the catchment is full.

HARVESTING POLLUTION
We fitted the devices to trucks, generators and ferries across Asia and over a period of months, captured billions
of particles that would otherwise be in our air…or lungs.

CREATING INK
Back in the lab, the captured pollution is taken through a process that removes trace heavy metals and
carcinogens. The purified soot goes through several industrial processes to make different types of inks and
paints.
HOW WE TURNED AIR POLLUTION INTO INK

KAALINK
 ABOUT KAALINK
1. Kaalink is a contraption retrofitted to the exhaust pipe of vehicles to capture the outgoing pollutants.
2. This does not affect vehicle/engine performance.
3. Soot collected by Kaalink undergoes various proprietary processes to remove heavy metals and carcinogens.
The end product is purified carbon based pigment.
4. In the final stage, the carbon is taken through another chemical process to make different types of inks and
paints.
5. Kaalink, a device that, once placed on exhaust pipes, captures pollutants.
6. It’s a mechatronic system which consists of electrostatics filtration, depth filtration, wall flow filtration
etc….to filter soot.
7. The final product called carbon is then mixed with different types of oils and solutions to form inks and
paints.
 PROCESS OF AIR-INK
1. Kaalink is developed primarily for mitigating some of the world’s most harmful emissions.
2. The device is prepared well, and it is doing so on a small scale.
3. Kaalink is being used to capture pollution from vehicle exhausts.
4. It is then removing all toxic components from the harvested pollution to create clean and safe black ink that
artists can use as normal ink.
5. According to the company “45 minutes worth of vehicular emissions captured by the Kaalink device can produce
1 fluid ounce of Air Ink.”
6. While cheaper carbon black inks are manufactured through the deliberate burning of fossil fuels, we use our
proprietary device––what we call KAALINK––to capture soot that is already being emitted from vehicles.
7. KAALINK is retrofitted to the exhaust pipe of vehicles/generators to capture the outgoing pollutants.
 HARVESTING POLLUTION & CREATING INK

1. The unit automatically turns on when an engine is activated and gases start flowing through the exhaust.
2. This activates the flow and thermo sensor, which, in turn, engages a mechatronic capture system.
3. All fine particle matter is then captured within the walls of the unit.
4. however, gases are allowed to pass through, leaving the engine unaffected.
5. When the lights on the exterior of the unit turn from blue to red, the catchment is full.
6. Back in the lab, the captured pollution is taken through a process that removes trace heavy metals and carcinogens.
7. The purified soot goes through several industrial processes to make different types of inks and paints.
8. The soot we collect undergoes various proprietary processes to remove heavy metals and carcinogens.
9. the end product is a purified carbon rich pigmen .
10. We purify the carbon pigment by cutting out the heavy metals, dust particles, and all other harmful materials.
11. The carbon is then used to make different types of inks and paints.
 THE AIR-INK RANGE

Every drop of ink in our products has been made from air pollution. Whenever
they’re used to draw, write, paint or create, they’re literally making our streets more
beautiful.
0.7MM ROUND TIP
Fine point marker for everyday creativity.
Approx. 40 minutes of diesel car pollution.

2MM ROUND TIP

Perfect for shading and small detail.
Approx. 50 minutes of diesel car pollution.
15MM CHISEL TIP
Thick lines, smooth strokes, great feel.
Approx. 130 minutes of diesel car pollution.

50MM WIDE TIP

250ML REFILL
Made extra wide for murals and large-scale pieces.
Approx. 130 minutes of diesel car pollution. For when you run dry.
Approx. 830 minutes of diesel car pollution.
600ML SPRAY CAN
Quick action, fast dry, covers any surface with ease.
Approx. 2000 minutes of diesel car pollution.
 ADVANTAGES

1. Air-Ink products to the best emerging artists in Hong Kong.

2. They used them to takeover the streets of their city.
3. Cartoons at children's rooms or Road side walls Designing on clothes.
4. Graffiti on roadside.
5. To Control the AIR Pollution over all world.
 FEATURES

1. Every 45 min worth of car emissions- 30 ml of ink.

2. 600 ml spray- holds the equivalent of 2000 hrs of pollution.
3. Kaalink can even fit over the polluting mouths of boats, chimneys and cranes.
4. It not only stops co2 gas enter into air but also captures a dangerous carbon soot called PM 2.5.
here P.M Particulate matter
2.5 size of particle in microns
5. Each device can collect up to 95% of pollutants.
 SMOG FREE TOWER
1. Daan Roosegaarde, the innovator of smog free project.
2. He created 23 feet(7 m) tall air cleaning “smog free
tower”.
3. It is like a huge electronic vacuum cleaner that suck in
smog and clean the atmosphere.
4. The first tower, called kick-starter is constructed in
Rotterdam, Netherlands.
5. Smog mainly consists of carbon, from which we can
make diamonds.
6. One tower will clean 3.5 million cubic meter of air per
day--- 3500 diamond rings.
7. It can purify 30,000 cubic meter of air in 1 hr using
only 30w of power.

SMOG
DRINKING
TOWER
 CONCLUSION

1. It will the best for controlling air pollution in environment and best
for living things to protect the health.
2. When we are using these the whole world be having without
pollution maximum.
3. It’s very useful to our life cycle to protect from diseases.
 FUTURE SCOPE

In future the over all air pollution will be controlled and health
problems which effecting by air pollution will be reduced like
premature death, heart attacks, and strokes, bronchitis and
aggravated asthma among children.
SOME OF THE ARTS MADE BY AIR-INK
Artist Kristopher Ho using AIR-INK to beautify a
public space in Hong Kong.
A VIDEO ON AIR-INK IN OTHER COUNTRY
A FULL VIDEO ON AIR-INK PROCESS
MADE FROM AIR POLLUTION.
MADE FOR THE STREETS.