Germany installed the first vacuum cleaners for automotive emission

In the middle of May, 2019 in Germany began to install the first vacuum cleaners for purification of street air of harmful exhausts. On one of trunk mains of Stuttgart, Nekator Avenue, 17 mobile cleaners were placed.

At arrangement of vacuum cleaners for air purification officials were guided by the fact that on the avenue the highest concentration of harmful substances in air. New industrial filtering system allow to purify air from dioxide of nitrogen and atmospheric dust. Each column consumes about 1000 W per hour, i.e. the power consumption of new filters is comparable with indicators of the normal home vacuum cleaner. At the same time the power of "the street vacuum cleaner" is 100 times higher – it misses via filters about 10 thousand cubic meters of air per hour.

Germany installed the first vacuum cleaners for cleaning of exhausts of a car

The project of "street vacuum cleaners" cost the city and land authorities 416 thousand euros. The representative of administration Schutgarta Michael Muenter explained that "street vacuum cleaners" – not the panacea, but the speech goes rather about that using a combination of different measures to reduce the level of harmful emissions as far as it is possible.

The experiment will last two years, but already the first measurements showed that concentration of harmful substances in air was reduced by 30%. In Germany similar continuous time filters are also installed in Kiel and Lyudvigsburg. If pilot projects are successful, filters can set also in other cities.

Filters were installed after the run high scandal – based on check the European Commission reported that within ten years three largest car makers Volkswagen of Germany, Daimler and BMW agreed not to compete on key components of control of air pollution, having violated the antitrust law and having shaken already fragile ecosystem of the large cities, Deutsche Welle notes.^[1]

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