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ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Based on the last three years of research into alternative energy sources using microbial fuel cells (MFC) that answered which Utah lake mud, which electrode material, and which diameter gen…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The world's increasing demand for energy, combined with concerns over climate change, highlights the need for more sustainable energy sources. Piezoelectric energy harvesting is a renewable…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
As the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported in 2021, CO2 emissions reached 36.3 gigatons. Therefore, there is a pressing need to find an efficient alternative for fossil fuels such as…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The global electricity consumption due to cool air conditioning is huge, accounting for about 10% of the total global electricity demand. The self-powered energy saving device for air condit…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Centralized power grids in developed areas are currently the main benefactor of renewable energy advancements and are predicted to be completely renewable by 2032. However, with methods of e…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
By 2030, the world must ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable energy. However, the power generated from two potential renewable energy resources -solar cells and raindrop piezoe…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electricity access in homes is crucial to a modern-day standard of living, but harnessing energy efficiently from sustainable sources remains challenging. Due to the complexity and price of…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The use of renewable energy sources is growing globally, but the storage of this energy remains a major challenge. Traditional Methods rely on non-renewable energy. To address this issue, a…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In today's society, saving energy is a top priority. Why use harmful greenhouse gases that contaminate our atmosphere when clean energy is right at our fingertips? We just need to find a way…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Growing global demand and utilization of fossil fuels has accelerated growth in wealth, but also higher levels of pollution and the consequent degeneration of public health. Moreover, misman…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar Energy is one of the most promising methods of renewable energy in the world, however this method of production of energy has a certain flaw, which is that if the panel that produces s…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Petroleum-based engines use carbon-based non-renewable energy sources, and electric options have low range and slow refuel speeds. A oxyhydrogen (HHO) gas wet cell system was designed, engin…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project looks at the aerodynamics of different semi fairing designs and their drag coefficients. This study looked into reducing diesel consumption by increasing the aerodynamic efficie…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Search for new methods of eco-friendly and grid independent methods of electricity production in remote areas remains important nowadays. Flow of water can be readily exploited for this purp…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Turbulent streamlines behind moving vehicles increase Drag forces acting on them, thus increasing energy consumption, which causes significant losses to the ministries of transport and vehic…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydrogen as a fuel is a clean source of energy to support zero-carbon energy strategies. However, most of the current major methods of producing hydrogen are fossil fuel reliant thus affecti…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Herein, doped carbon materials are synthesized from biomass utilizing facile microwave irradiation for supercapacitor application. Lignosol is used as a carbon precursor while ammonium polyp…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the devastation caused by recent hurricanes and earthquakes in Puerto Rico, the access to regular power has become a serious issue in the Island. The residents constantly battle again…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project aims to find natural solutions to reduce carbon dioxide contributing to climate change while expanding access to lighting. There Species of marine dinoflagellates, such as Pyroc…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Greenhouse gases are causing mass climate change, and one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gasses is electricity powered by fossil fuels. Solar panels help reduce our dependence on this…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The use of biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol has the potential to decrease the amount of carbon emissions. Algae is a potential source of biomass to produce such cellulosic ethanol, but th…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Searching for alternative energy sources has taken on new meaning in light of concerns regarding climate change. Vast landfills across America do produce a usable alternative fuel in the for…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Drastic increases in energy demand have led to the quest for developing efficient energy-storage devices. The main research pursuit is in fulfilling global requirements for storing renewable…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Hydrogen is a promising green fuel that is being rapidly adapted for use as a secondary energy carrier- particularly due to its high calorific value of 142.3 MJ/kg, more than three times hig…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this experiment was to test what compost variable worked best to produce natural gas. If the amount of methane is dependent on the type of compost, then there will be a measur…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
We will be solving the problem of the amount of solar energy not being collected, by designing and building an effective and affordable dual axis solar tracker. The purpose of this project i…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Green hydrogen is a global need for its emergence as a sustainable, clean, and renewable source of energy. Photoelectrochemical water splitting is one technique for producing green hydrogen.…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Recently, ammonia (NH3) has been attracting attention as a renewable energy carrier worldwide. The conventional method of producing NH3 requires high temperatures and pressures that cannot b…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In 2021, solar energy accounted for only 3.1% of the global energy demand while CO2 emissions reached an all-time high of 36.3 billion tons. However, solar energy has the potential to comple…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hitherto, the two main causes of global warming are the burning of fossil fuels which release greenhouse gases, and the emission of waste heat as a byproduct of processes. Thermoelectrics ha…