China built the world's largest smoke research laboratory

The Chinese government has approved a project to build an artificial smoke facility that allows scientists to find new ways to reduce environmental pollution.

The plan known as the "smoke chamber" is rapidly underway as the country continues to be covered with dense smoke. Huairou complex , if completed, could be the basis of studying the largest atmosphere in the world.

Professor He Hong, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist of the project, said the smoke chamber is capable of analyzing 600 cubic meters of polluted air, 1.5 times the base of Euphore of the Euro. .

Professor He stressed that this is not a project showing bragging, but merely for scientific purposes.The bigger the smoke chamber, the "wall effect" is smaller. Therefore, according to him to accurately simulate, large smoke chambers will result in better analysis.

The building is covered in a polluted cloud in Qingdao area, Shandong province (China).

The smoke chamber will consist of two hemispheres capable of producing smoke similar to pollution smoke in practice.

The government granted the project more than 6 hectares of land in Huairou district of Beijing and a budget of 500 million yuan.

Construction will begin in early 2016, even sooner if the government is impatient in the fight against pollution smog and motivate scientists to get the earliest results.

'We are under a lot of pressure to find answers and immediate solutions. But scientific research requires a lot of time, and many complex problems cannot be solved immediately, " Mr. He said. " I hope people will understand and give us more time. "

Scientists are brainstorming about the cause of smoke screens in China. There is still a lack of accurate understanding of the chemical reaction in the atmosphere, which created this smokescreen. Many research groups have directed criticism on emissions. They forced the Chinese government to take measures such as restricting cars, closing factories, but the effect was still insignificant.

The theoretical and mathematical models developed by scientists in the past decades to explain the phenomenon of smoke in Europe and the United States cannot be applied in the case of China.

At Huarou's base, by injecting various pollution combinations into each hemisphere, researchers will be able to analyze chemical reactions in detail. Two identical hemispherical tubes will allow scientists to compare test results.