SMART-POKER (PORTABLE SMOKE FILTER): OPTIMALISASI PEMURNIAN UDARA MEMANFAATKAN ARANG AKTIF MEMINIMALISIR PENCEMARAN UDARA DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Air pollution is one of the environmental pollution that has adverse effects and problems in the world. The International Energy Agency (IEA) said that air pollution is the cause of premature deaths of around 6.5 million people per year. WHO said that around 98% of cities with 100,000 people in middle-income countries does not meet WHO standard air quality. According to the problems above, the effort to minimalize the problem is necessary. This is relevant to Government Regulation number 41 at 1999 about Air Pollution Control who ordered us to control the levels of pollutants in the air. One attempt is to use SMART-POKER, an automatic air purifier. The adsorber is activated charcoal so that the absorption and particle surface area is higher. The suction component is the DC fan, the detector is the MQ-2 gas sensor, the indicator is the LED and Buzzer, and the controller is Arduino Pro Mini. With a portable size makes this tool more practical to carry anywhere. The stages after designing are testing the effect of active charcoal size on absorbency, active charcoal arrangement on output air quality, then testing of levels and minimum smoke distance so that they can be detected by the MQ-2 sensor. The result shows that Smart-Poker can work optimally by using activated charcoal with a size of 0.0625 mm - 2 mm (granules) with an arrangement of activated charcoal made in layers.