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ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
This study aims to discover how IoT devices and trash bins can be used in conjunction with one another to discover trends in trash generation and minimize trash overflow. Using an Arduino mi…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plays a pivotal role in modern packaging and textile industries, contributing to over 350 million tons of global production annually. Despite its widespread…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, is a major environmental concern due to its non-degradability and low recyclability. This experiment explored the potential of using D-limonene, a t…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Sugarcane farming, especially in countries such as Honduras and Brazil where sugarcane is the nation's primary industry, has led to large-scale deforestation and further environmental damage…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Though water-soluble cutting oil is an essential material for metal-cutting processes, its release into the water system prompts significant contaminations. Since the emulsion of water and o…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Waste degradation is an urgent issue that humanity must try to mitigate. Pink oyster, turkey tail, and Pestalotiopsis mushrooms are three fascinating species that have shown remarkable poten…
AJAS · 2024
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
As humans gain an increasing reliance on environmentally harmful devices such as cars and factories, organisms in the ocean experience life-altering adversity. To decrease the significance o…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Despite the Earth’s abundance of salt water, water access remains one of the greatest global challenges, underscoring the urgent need to improve technologies for desalination treatment. Elec…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
No practical method of treating greywater has been integrated into agriculture. The purpose of this research was to develop a hydroponic filter that increases the ecological sustainability o…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The process of disposing of expanded polystyrene (EPS) is by burning it in municipal incinerators. This process gives off EPS microplastics, which can find their way into water, food, blood,…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
DPF filter and its problems Global environmental concerns over diesel vehicle emissions have led to regulations like the EURO-4 standard in Europe and recent EPA mandates in the US. While th…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Problematic water consumption has become a pressing global issue in recent years. Despite regular filtration efforts, conventional methods often fail to remove all hazardous chemicals in wat…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
With the recent increase of human population, food production rates have surged, resulting in one-third of all food produced worldwide to be wasted. With typical methods of waste management…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
This project continues on the foundational research of using spent coffee grounds to make biodegradable films by harnessing the bountiful and renewable potential of fall leaves, this project…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Pollutants, from sources like fossil fuels to furniture, are associated with health and environmental issues. Previous experiments have established that a photobioreactor made from Spirulina…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Hydroponic farming is rapidly gaining popularity because of its consistency and sustainability. Thousands of hydroponic farms are being built around the world as reliable food sources to mat…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Transportation significantly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) and PM 2.5 emissions, adversely impacting the environment. This study presents a novel conical filtration device, designed to…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Waste to Green Eco-Construction project is a novelty innovation in producing construction material that utilises recycled material to reduce the use of earth elements like limestone/sand and…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Crude oil spills destroy shorelines, imbalance ecosystems, and have detrimental economic impacts. Though damage from these spills has been established in literature, there is limited researc…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The presence of petroleum-based synthetic polymers in the environment leads to soil and water pollution, threatens the ecosystem and leads to the destruction of fauna. The negative effects o…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Climate and agriculture are intricately interwoven, as seasonal change produces a wide diversity of crops. Climate change has ramifications for agricultural health, yield, water, and soil. C…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Introduction: Climate change, population growth and poor water conservation continue to worsen water shortages in the world. Engineering Goal: To develop a low cost, water-on-demand, soil mo…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Developing sustainable technologies to harness solar energy for wastewater treatment and hydrogen fuel production is crucial for addressing global energy and environmental challenges. In thi…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
Wildfires are increasingly impacting the environment and human health. Among the top 20 California wildfires, those in 2020-2021 burned more acres than the last century combined. Lack of an…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The Brazilian semiarid region has 27 million inhabitants who depend on rainwater for subsistence activities such as agriculture and livestock. With average rainfall of 800 mm annually and li…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
There has been a rise in water pollution with nitrates over the past few years. Currently, there is no cost-effective option for the detection or filtration of nitrates in water, since the c…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
HABs have plagued waterways causing significant losses to Florida's economy. Currently, algal bloom data collection is reactionary and inadequate, following regional fish kills. Algal mitiga…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays, the world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated, or leaking into the environment. Only 9% were success…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations exceeding critical thresholds, the Earth’s climate and ecosystems face irreversible damage. To date, the power sector is responsible for 41% of…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Wildfires cause significant damage, resulting in over 33,000 fatalities and destruction of more than 10.1 million acres annually. 40% of wildfire damage occurs in California. Unfortunately,…