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ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Earth’s average surface temperature has increased by 1.62? since the late 19th century. Natural gas was the source of about 32% of U.S. electricity generation in 2017 with coal following at…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The use of innovative devices for renewable energy is setting a pivotal role in the electrical industry. Several devices have been created, especially in the fuel cell and battery field, tha…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitor is the one of sustainable alternative energy that serves to store electrical energy. The main components of the device consist of electrode and electrolyte. In this research,…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, wind power has attracted attention as a renewable energy source, but there are problems concerning its energy efficiency and stability. One of the keys to solving these prob…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Producing sustainable fuel such as hydrogen gas is essential to mitigate the harmful effects of CO2-emissions, such as global warming and climate change on natural life cycles. Hematite (a-F…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Our planet’s temperature is continuing to rise dangerously due to greenhouse gas emissions from the excessive use of fossil fuels. This is contributing to global warming and forest decline w…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Bioethanol production currently utilizes sugars derived from food crops, which causes challenges in the fight against world hunger. Alternative sources of sugars must be investigated. A pote…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the high contribution of methane gas to the greenhouse effect by anthropogenic events, mainly agriculture and livestock, it arose to propose a homemade alternative method to reduce th…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study presents a triboelectric (TENG) and electromagnetic (EMG) hybrid floor-tile nanogenerator to harvest the already expended energy of human footsteps for electrical energy conversio…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In electric vehicles, about 72% of the power that the battery provides to the wheels is dissipated. Of this, 25% is lost from rolling resistance and 39% is lost from wind resistance. Piezoel…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In 2019, solar energy accounted for less than 2% of U.S. electricity production, as opposed to 62.7% from fossil fuels, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA). In recent years…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
One of the major needs in our world today is developing clean energy sources which can help limit the use of fossil fuels and prevent global warming, as well as bring electricity to developi…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
An untapped technology to increase driving range of electric cars is solar cells to provide auxiliary power output. But, the limited power output of conventional silicon panels and their inf…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fossil fuels produce 2/3 of the Earth’s greenhouse gases; biofuel reduces these emissions <86%. The U.S. commercially grows 2M acres of canola annually, leaving 25-30 cm of stubble/plant for…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
From year to year, energy and electricity consumption of whole humanity increases and this leads to environmental problems because most sources of energy are exhaustible and non-renewable ex…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Brazilian livestock accounts for 18.6% of the use of the national territory, due to its impact on the current scenario, I propose to use animal manure for the renewable production of electri…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Initially, solar cells were made from silicon, but it was very expensive to get. Later on, scientists created dye-sensitized solar cells using ruthenium dye which was a pollutant and it was…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
By 2040, the global consumption of energy is expected to increase by 28% from 2017. As the demand for energy increases, the demand for sustainable sources increases. The purpose of this stud…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to increase the efficiency of a solar panel and create a system that uses energy in the most efficient way. It was hypothesized that by putting the solar pane…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this investigation is to improve the performance of iron-ion batteries (FIBs) by improving cyclability through composite V2O5 and TiO2 cathodes. FIBs offer a higher specific c…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The main aim of this project is to develop green power that will be a key enabler in the movement of goods on the increased infrastructure and manufacturing units. I am using energy boosters…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Since 2013 energy storage research has been focused on supercapacitors (SCs) due to their many advantages over batteries: 1) charge times are exponentially smaller 1-30 second instead of 10-…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A big problem is climate change. The U.S. uses more than 187.8 trillion pounds of non-renewable natural gas. The U.S. discards renewable products every year including 222.5 billion pounds of…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research aims to design a cost-effective add-on to solar cells that allows for the capture of solar ultraviolet light. While scientists have created expensive multijunction panels that…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Research problem: Some evidence that is presented to prove the personalities of criminals is not sufficient to prove the identity of the criminal and take long periods of time in the search…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of the project was to construct an eco-friendly and cost effective alternative for heat exchanger by using naturally occurring Zeolite, which can store heat for an indefinite tim…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) have recently drawn wide interest in electrochemistry because of their high energy density, low cost, and environmental friendliness compared to the lithium-ion bat…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
An efficient and economically profitable process for the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to valuable chemicals such as methanol and formic acid was investigated to address the s…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As more and more hydrophobic compounds are turned away each year due to the fact that the cannot dissolve in the human body, the goal of this project was to a novel alginate-based drug deliv…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This research was based on previous research conducted on obtaining biofuels from various food waste sources. It was determined that wasted grease was the best source for biofuel production.…