IIT Guwahati's Innovative Products To Fight COVID-19
Food & Health|July 2020
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is leading the fight against novel coronavirus. The Institute’s community, including faculty, staff, students and alumni are working tirelessly to prevent the spread of COVID-19. They are developing innovative solutions to address sanitation and precaution concerns amid the pandemic with a set of affordable and innovative products.
IIT Guwahati's Innovative Products To Fight COVID-19

The Institute has developed:

Low-cost heat-based Sanitizer Trunk Injection Mould for mass manufacturing of Face Shield Disinfectant Tunnel Universal Foot Operated Hand Sanitization System High-grade quality of Face Shields

Talking about the innovations that are being developed by the Institute's community, Dr. T. G. Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, said, The Institute is continuously pushing the limits and thriving hard to serve the nation by developing innovative and affordable products to fight COVID-19 and is in line with the announcement by the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s call for making the country self-reliant (Atmanirbhar Bharat). The Institute community and its alumni are taking up the challenge to convert this time of crisis into an opportunity to serve society and will continuously work to contribute to the masses in this time of pandemic so that vital products that are necessary for hospitals, offices, schools and colleges, private establishments to keep the population safe and secure are readily available at a reasonable cost. I congratulate all the innovators and incubatees of Technology Incubation Center (TIC) of IITG.

Low-cost heat-based Sanitizer Trunk

A student’s team under the supervision of Dr. Uday Shanker Dixit, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, has designed a heat-based sanitizer trunk for disinfecting clothes, papers, leather items, belt, currency notes, wallets etc. According to the team and various studies, the virus cannot withstand high temperature. According to one study, a temperature of 70° C is sufficient to kill coronavirus. Flu viruses are killed at 75°C.

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