Nobody can overlook the Deepwater Horizon oil slick that happened in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. For five UH understudies and their educator, this catastrophe spurs their task to make an innovation that will avoid future spills.

"Consider it like the iPhone. It was a major change from the flip telephone with new components," electrical innovation senior and pioneer of the venture Kiefer Duong said. "It is a creative innovation that could have kept the oil slick in the Gulf."

Those included in the undertaking incorporate electrical innovation seniors Kiefer Duong, Elizabeth Andrade, Austin Chang, Patrick Nguyen, data and logistics innovation senior Alexandra O'Brien and electrical innovation associate teacher Medhat El Nahas.

Victory Preventer Technologies is the organization connected with the UH understudy gathering building up the innovation. They are centered around the advancement of a victory preventer for the oil and gas industry. As per Duong, this undertaking is BOP Technologies' item, and they will be promoting their item to different organizations to be utilized as a part of oil apparatuses.

"In the course of the most recent couple of decades, the BOP configuration has changed next to no," Duong said. "The BOP Technologies item is extraordinary and astounding because of expansion in dependability, simplicity of upkeep and execution, contrasted with conventional BOP's. With the disentangled outline, it has the capacity work at a higher execution level with less parts, while being practical. This will spare organizations a great many dollars every year."

As indicated by the Wall Street Journal, the aggregate expense of harms Deepwater Horizon oil slick brought about came to a sum of $54 billion.

The gathering started this task in September, subsequent to connecting with Khoa Pham, Vice President of Market Development and Strategy of BOP Technologies and now as of now CEO of the organization. As per Duong, Pham introduced the thought to the gathering.

"At present, we are supporting in the advancement of distinctive parts of their item," Duong said. "They anticipate their item to be finished in around two years."

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