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ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
To resist detrimental and irreversible climate damage, our dependency must shift from fossil fuel-derived energy to renewable energy sources. Unfortunately, current popular renewable energy…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Solar energy is a promising power source with potential to play a critical role in decarbonizing the electric grid. It is essential that solar cells efficiently convert sunlight energy to el…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Air pollution, especially PM 2.5, affects the health of millions of people globally, causing premature death. Outdoor air pollutants can leak indoors, leading to pollution concentrations 2-5…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Airborne Wind Energy systems (AWEs) are an innovative variant of wind energy technology that harness the power of high-altitude winds. However, conventional AWEs face limitations due to teth…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Every year millions of saplings were sold in India by the nurseries. Although the saplings contribute to environmental conservation, the black plastic bags in which these saplings grow cause…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the shortage of electricity in Zimbabwe, many people are now using solar panels as an alternative. The shortage is still there since fixed solar panels generate less energy because th…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) have become an important energy storage power system in the world due to their safety, high heat resistance, environmental-friendliness and limited memory effect…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Electrical interruptions plague St.Croix and many other Caribbean locations. St.Croix averages two electrical interruptions per property a month. A way to mitigate those interruptions would…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Tesla or bladeless turbine, developed by Nikola Tesla in 1913, has a cost-efficient and simple design. The tangential flow of a fluid and its viscosity interacting with the turbine’s dis…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The cost of the electrical energy from the grid of Puerto Rico is 30% more expensive than the average cost of energy in the United States. The high cost of energy has caused an economic burd…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Evidenced by mass load-shedding and power-cuts on a local & global scale, energy shortages and their effects on sustainable development are becoming more prominent especially in the developi…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The molten salt reactor (MSR) has garnered renewed interest as an alternative nuclear power technology due to their greater electrical-generation efficiency as compared to conventional Light…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The need for large-scale implementation of solar energy served as inspiration for this experiment. When using renewable energy, efficiency must be maximized because it is currently much less…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The project studied the effect of urea on Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs). Researchers have found MFCs to show the greatest potential for upscaling in the field of waste management. The cells co…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Wind energy currently comprises 6% of world energy production and continues to grow in response to the need for climate change action. Savonius vertical-axis wind turbine systems could make…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project engineered a continuous charge pump for a biodegradable piezoelectric transducer made from wood shavings infused with Rochelle salt. Initially, electrode layout and material wer…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Biogas is a renewable energy source generated by the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic matter. Of all the gases produced by animal waste, 55-65% is methane, affecting global warming 21 tim…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In line with recent increasing interest in renewable energy solutions, ammonia (NH3) has been attracting attention as an energy carrier. However, environmental conditions often affect curren…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Grid-scale energy storage systems are an integral part of a clean future. Some sources of renewable energy cannot consistently produce electricity, leading to gaps between electricity supply…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project investigated the use of the plant "Tradescantia Pallida," also called Purple Heart, as a sensitizer for the Gratzel cell. Never before has Purple Heart been researched for such…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project used scientific principles to collect statistically relevant data and develop a feasible manufacturing process for piezoelectric transducers with minimal environmental impact. T…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In the modern era of the technological revolution, most energy needs are fulfilled from burning fossil fuels. They are not only depleting very fast but have adverse impacts on our environmen…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As the use of solar energy expands, there is a rising demand for Photovoltaic modeling programs which can track, monitor, and predict the energy output of solar arrays. However, the high cos…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Self-powered units, especially energy storage devices with self-charging ability, are considered sustainable power sources for future electronic devices. In this research, a novel supercapac…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Previous research has demonstrated amplified algal production of oils suitable for use as biodiesel under stress conditions, sometimes linking these typically adverse conditions to media tha…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hurricane María, a category 4 storm, made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. The hurricane left incapacitated the central electric power system, leaving the entire island without…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Over the last two years of research into alternative energy sources using microbial fuel cells (MFC), I have answered the questions of which lake mud and which material generated the most el…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In order to decrease reliance on non-renewable energies that greatly pollute the earth, people need more renewable energy sources, such as piezoelectric energy harvesting, that can generate…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Modern wearable technologies require highly efficient energy storage devices to improve their performance while maintaining low cost and non-toxicity. One of the most salient devices that po…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Egypt’s needs of energy and food are ascendingly increasing with the increase of its population. This study aims to provide a clean and ecofriendly source of energy for mobile cars, and a ch…