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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…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Hydrogen is one of the cleanest forms of energy storage that, when burned, produces only water as a byproduct. Nevertheless, the use of hydrogen is greatly limited due to the costly material…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
As the most abundant biopolymer on Earth, cellulose represents a promising and sustainable feedstock for the production of biofuels and value-added chemicals. Due to its recalcitrant nature,…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Biofuels are currently being made with food crops. However, due to the growing issue of world hunger an alternative biomass was research. With reference to previous studies, cardboard proved…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
According to NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017, the first human will be sent to Mars by 2033. Oxygen generation will be a vital part of any human expedition to Mars, however, current…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The drastic increase in fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by conventional vehicles calls for a greener and environmentally friendly alternative, most notably electric vehi…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Ocean waves can generate power 90% of the time, making them the most reliable source of clean energy in the world. Places like Hawaii, which are surrounded by waves, can significantly benefi…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Rechargeable aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs) are receiving considerable attention as a desirable device for large-scale energy storage owing to high theoretical capacity and abundance of alumi…
ISEF · 2022
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. This experiment focused on designing, engineering, and prod…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The goal of my project was to design a system that cooled a solar cell using the renewable energy of the sun. Knowing that a cooled solar cell performs better than a non-cooled solar cell I…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This experiment tests the efficiency of three different metal electrodes in the process of hydrolysis. The hypothesis of the experiment is that the catalysts will have an effect on the effic…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Luminescent solar concentrators (LSC) utilize fluorescent dyes in a transparent material to absorb diffuse radiation in the ultraviolet region and re-emit it as visible light. The emitted li…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of the project is to help people worldwide that are affected by street violence to be able to defend themselves. Women safety is a big issue worldwide and there are self defense…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The objective of this project is to measure the effects of adaptive control on the performance of a wave energy converter (WEC). Ocean wave energy is one of the most promising sources of ren…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A novel organic electrode material (PGC) was developed through a facile copolymerization of polyethyleneimine (PEI), gallic acid (GA) and Cu2+ (CuCl2). PGC shows strong adhesion and numerous…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With the high demand for renewable energy resources, large-scale energy storage systems are required to safely store the energy produced. Lithium-Ion batteries are the commercially dominant…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Over the past 100 years, the earth has been increasingly affected by the production of energy through toxic means, in particular - fossil fuels. However, recently wave energy has emerged as…