The burst prevention technology invention by TycheeJuno project is one of the top ten most popular entries in NASA’s Create the Future Design Contest 2015. (Representative image)
A team of Odisha-based PhD researchers has just taken the air of out tyre punctures.
There has been numerous attempts to limit the impact of punctures, especially when its caused due to overheating, but no solution had been found so far. The researchers’ latest innovation not only decreases the possibilities of bursts but has also taken care of punctures, dynamic wheel balancing, increasing fuel efficiency and life.
The burst prevention and puncture curative technology (BPPC) is an invention by TycheeJuno project, headed by an Odisha-based innovator, has found its place among the top ten most entries in the ‘Create the Future Design Contest 2015 Nasa Tech Brief’ in New York on November 6.
Nasa Tech Brief is a joint effort of Nasa and Society of Automobile Engineers International.
Thousands of young scientists from 60 countries participated in the international competition. Eight teams received the awards and 32 inventions found a place in Nasa’s official publication in the special issue of November.
Sameer Panda, who is doing his PhD from VSS University of Technology in Odisha’s Sambalpur district, said, “It has clocked more than 40,000 hours in last more than a decade in inventing the technology that can be manufactured in existing manufacturing set up and can also be retrofitted in any tubeless, self-supported or auxiliary supported tyre”. He is also Team Leader at TycheeJuno.
Apart from Sameer, Udit Bondia, KN Panda and Smitiparna Satpathy are the other members in his team working on this project. The innovation becomes very important in a country like India where 3,371 people were killed and 9,081 injuries in 2014.
It also has environmental advantage.
Panda said with TycheeJuno’s technology in 10 million vehicles, reduction in carbon emission due to decreased tyre replacement would be be 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide per annum.