From 6-7 lines to 3.14 Months
We could do research, I choose Physics to learn about Plasma, There were only 6-7 lines about Plasma in our textbook, but i had watched youtube videos and read about it on Wikipedia.
The Professor invited us to the Physics Lab.
And there it was Plasma, the highest state of matter, i raised my hand expecting it to tickle or shock us.
But i didn't feel anything, It streched upon contact, the light shrunk
That was cold plasma, real and tangible. Not just theory. But something you could experience
We had to understand it. We had to work with it.
We started working under Supervisor and Mentors at COMSATS. Learning types of Plasma, spectroscopy and Reading research papers.
For around 3 months, we worked around generating plasma and using it to answer:
Could plasma degrade industrial dyes efficiently?
We started with: Distilled water. Pure. Controlled.
Methyl blue dye solution. Electrodes. High Oxygen flow.
This is the system. Underwater plasma discharge. The reactor. The measurement equipment.
When we turned on the reactor, plasma ignited. The blue dye solution began to degrade. In seconds, not days.
The raw data meant nothing without analysis. We used optical emission spectroscopy (OES) and absorption spectroscopy (ABS).
Emission Spectroscopy identified the reactive species. Which atoms were excited? Which radicals formed?
Absorption Spectroscopy measured methyl blue concentration. How much dye was actually degraded?
The graphs don't lie.
Peak intensities increased with applied voltage. More reactive species. Faster degradation. The physics was clear.
Single stage, Energy-efficient, Scalable.
Not every run succeeded. We learned from failures and iterated and SUPERVISORS
Behind every data point is footage of the experiment. This is the real work.
What We Did
We investigated through practical, no theory - no simulation. This is real.
We took a global problem industrial dye pollution and proposed a solution using the fourth state of matter.
About
I'm Daud, I love machines and hope I can develop ones that can take us over.
My current interests are PyTorch and Drones. I have been using Python and JavaScript for a few months.
I also like Physics, sometimes Math and Astronomy - blame too many late nights reading about black holes and time travel.