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ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Plastic waste is an ongoing environmental pollution and contamination hazard across the world. Our experimental compost has been shown to accelerate the degradation process of low-crystallin…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Methane is the second most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and accounts for about 20 percent of global emissions. My project tests the ability to utilize the adsor…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Different types of 3D printing filaments have been recently used. One of the most commonly used filaments is PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) along with ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene)…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Chemical dyes, biological pollutants and microplastics are some of the most harmful pollutants that hinder the usability of water. Since it is very difficult and expensive to treat these pol…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Countries all over the world continue to develop and expand. Urbanization can cause significant problems including water sources being contaminated by bacteria. This research works to engine…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this engineering project was to design a system that can remove aquatic trash from a creek before it could make its way to the Gulf of Mexico, without contributing to global w…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Efficient collection of water samples is essential for scientists. However, most of the existing methods for collecting water samples have many drawbacks, such as being costly or time consum…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
According to the World Health Organization, roughly 2.6 billion people continue to heat and cook using unvented open fires and stoves, fueled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Eutrophication, an excess of nitrates and phosphates in water primarily caused by fertilizer runoff, is the leading cause of cyanobacteria epidemics and marine life deaths. Previous studies…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Microplastic pollution due to inadequate water treatment has become an emerging issue, posing a global threat to marine life. Effective and eco-friendly removal solutions are urgently requir…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Farms around the world currently account for 70% of all water consumed annually. However, increasing municipal and industrial demands for water means there is less water allocated for agricu…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution has been a severe problem; 2 million tons of sewage, industrial and agricultural waste is discharged into the world's water. Contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
E-Waste makes up 70% of all toxic waste. The abundance of heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium entering landfills leach our soil, groundwater, and atmosphere to horrific ends, yet…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution has worsened due to thoughtless treatment of expired medication, causing problems such as neutralization and abnormal behavior of fish, and we found solution in fish to solve…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
This project is inspired by a comparison picture of two beach pictures. After viewing the two beach pictures, it is showed that the amount trash and pollution people create on the beach and…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Estuaries are wetlands where freshwater from streams mixes with salt water from sea. Also known as “kidneys of our planet”- they are extremely productive environments that filter pollutants,…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project is to produce methane from waste using a student made Bio-digestion system. Bio-digesters are closed systems decompose organic waste and produce natural gas. Ther…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
The detrimental threat microplastics (MPs) have on the environment is well known. However, their effective and efficient remediation in aquatic environments has yet to be established. This r…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project is to develop remediation techniques to restore salt contaminated soils back to productive farmland. The ultimate goal of this study is to develop an inexpensive…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) is a low-cost and energy efficient desalination technology used for remediating brackish water. MCDI is an electro-sorption technique that removes sal…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
In Zimbabwe, access to clean water is one of the greatest challenges that has resulted in about 100 000 people getting infected and about 4000 people dying annually to waterborne diseases be…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Hydrogen (H2) is identified as a clean energy source and can be produced from fossil fuels and biomass gasification, and water splitting using electrolysis. However, the current H2 productio…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Almost the entire global population breathes unhealthy air (World Health Organization, 2022) and it disproportionately affects lower-income communities (World Health Organization, 2022). Som…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Excessive soil salinity can decrease plant available water resulting in poor turfgrass growth conditions. The purpose of this project is to determine if time domain reflectometry (TDR) instr…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The scarcity of food and water is one of the challenges that pose a serious threat to the life and continuity of future generations, as well as its great impact on current generations. The s…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The manufacturing culture and economy are rapidly growing, but the environmental issues it is leaving behind continue to be a major concern. Studies predict that by 2025, 50% of the world's…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Pollutant removal efficiency and electricity production from kitchen wastewater are investigated with the design of an up-flow plant-microbial fuel cell (P-MFC) by coupling Canna indica L. a…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Objective: to develop an innovative way of cleaning the Tasotkel reservoir from fishing nets. Hypothesis: the developed cleaning method will allow cleaning the Tastkel reservoir from fishing…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Since their invention decades ago, single-use plastics have shaped the way people live. However, in recent years, light has been shed on the dangers they pose to marine ecosystems due to rel…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Beach pollution is an ever-growing global challenge that negatively impacts coastal ecosystems. Current solutions either involve having humans pick up pollutants (inefficient) or using beach…