Omani students invent a device that helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions
Sohar: A team of students from Naeim bin Masaud Basic Education School, North Al Batinah Governorate, created a device 'AEROCARBON' which helps in reducing carbon dioxide generated by car exhausts by over 50% using peridotite rock.
The team has got the patent for this device.
Under the supervision of Majid bin Khalfan Al Maqbali, students Omar bin Isa Al Barmani and Tamim bin Yousef Al Mamari, invented this device which made their project get the first place award in the environment field at the 36th International Invention, Innovation andTechnology Exhibition (ITEX 2025), held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
About the device, Al Barmani said that it is an environment-friendly invention aimed to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO2) generated by car exhausts through installation of a filter provided with particles of peridotite rock which transform carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate (CaCO3) when starting the car engine.
Al Barmani said that the invention has undergone several steps and procedures including testing the sample before and after installing the same in the car by a certified laboratory at the SQU.
The test results reaffirmed the success of the idea of the project in reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide from the air and the car exhausts, he added.
Student Tamim Al Mamari spoke on the mechanism of participation in the International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition, saying that the project was selected from among the projects of the teams taking part in the National Olympiad for Scientific Innovation, Robotics, and Arti ficial Intelligence.
Majid bin Khalfan Al Maqbali, supervising the students' team taking part in the 36th International Invention, Innovation and
Technology Exhibition (ITEX 2025), said that the participation was an opportunity for exchange of expertise with the talents and innovators from other countries and for acquainting with the various projects in all scientific fields.
He said that the exhibition represents an international platform for innovations , investors and businessmen interested in such fields of innovation and inventions.
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