Harbin Institute of Technology

Reported by: the Undergraduate College

Photographed by: the Undergraduate College

Translated by: JIA Yingxue

Edited by: Jonathan Wylie

From November 26th?to 30th,?an?HIT delegation?participated?in the 2014 International?TopDesign Competition?in South?Korea at?the invitation of Korea University.?The Window Integrated dust ventilation?and?air purification?project, designed by School of Energy Science and Engineering students ZUO Jingying, YU Wenhui and SUN Chen, Honors School student LIU Tianhao, and School of Electrical Engineering and Automation student SHAO Bo, under the guidance of School of Energy Science and Engineering Professor GAO Jihui, ranked third of four International Session?winning works. This is the first time that HIT has won?a?prize in International Session of?the International?Top?Design Competition.

Their project uses?Ionic Wind to ventilate indoors for the first time.?Air purifiers are instialledon windows to integrate dust removal into the process of ventilation.?The design prevents smog particles from entering rooms?from the source,?and?removes?pollutants?before?they?goindoors.?Since Ionic Wind technology does not have?mechanical?movements, it?does not produce noise to interfere?with peoples’?lives. The work also resolves the?long-term non-ventilated housing problem?caused by traditional air purifiers, which can only achieve loop purification in a closed?environment.?

The?International Top Design?Competition?is a leading student technology competition in the field of engineering?hosted by the?South?Korean Ministry of Education.?About 300 works of 90 universities from countries and regions including?America, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong participated in the competition. HIT?sent five teams to participate in the?InternationalSession?exhibitions and competitions.

During the visit,?the?HIT delegation also attended the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean undergraduate innovative works report meeting, which was held by Korea University.?Eighteen?works?were included?in the exchange report.?Through on-site assessment,?China,Japan and South Korea?respectively?had?works?with?special recognition.?The?Window Integrated dust ventilation?and?air purification?system?of HIT won?this?special recognition.