• Indoor Air Quality Management

A new home spelt new furniture and fixtures, but the same old polluted air, which is where the need to do something arose. Prodyut began with a list of products that would deliver the desired air quality. But try as he may, he could not get the one product that would increase the oxygen level indoors. When he got one, it was so expensive that buying it was out of the question. It was then that he met Narendra Bisht, who offered to design such a machine. Together, they came up with a product that was a fifth the cost of an imported machine and put together a team that could design, develop and produce it. The first product that the duo built was an oxygen optimiser – OxyMax, for residential and commercial buildings. In a recent case study, Bonphul had the opportunity to observe how energy-inefficient buildings can reduce the effectiveness of indoor air quality. However, it also noticed that most buildings using air conditioning, are having poor building envelopes and are low in building energy efficiency.  Recently, one of Bonphul dealer’s in Bengaluru had raised an issue against the performance of the OxyMax machine. The concern was regarding, how it is failing to maintain oxygen level at 19% leave alone the standard 20-21%, it has been claiming to do. On inspecting the location, the room subjected to oxygenation had massive air leakage. This was not only preventing oxygenation to reach its optimum levels but was not an energy-efficient space.