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ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The size and complexity of e-waste is increasing at a much faster rate than the efficiency of our strategies to contain it. Lake Chivero is heavily polluted with metal ions and is the main s…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks have become a critical part of the personal protective equipment for front-line workers and the public, resulting in an acute shortage of effective a…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Cooking/frying oil is an everyday kitchen waste that creates critical ecological, municipal, and environmental issues. The enormous advancements in technology led to numerous innovations in…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
At least 14 million tons of plastic, half being single-use items, pollute the environment each year. Most of this plastic is petroleum-based and can take up to 1000 years to degrade. This pr…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The biggest problems on the planet is pollution, so we wanted to venture into environmental engineering, and help the planet. Eco-House is the name of our project, a name which is due to the…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
A large amount of organic waste is accumulated all over the world, which is not used efficiently. The most suitable way for waste recycling is using microorganisms such as yeast for producin…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
A highly demanded PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, surgical masks effectively prevent virus transmission. However, discarding masks after a single use is costly and environmentally detrimen…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Scientists had long praised the ocean as being a great carbon dioxide “sink” and for good reason, a study published in a Science journal found that the ocean absorbed 30% percent of the emis…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Global water pollution and unsustainable energy production are growing and harmful issues. This study aimed to create a solution to these problems, allowing them to abet each other through e…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Current plant-starch plastic products take 3-6 months to decompose, making them a great alternative for traditional plastics. With increased usage of these plastic alternatives comes increas…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
The purpose of this project is to develop a versatile, environmentally sustainable, low cost, clay-based sorbent to extract oil and metallic pollutants in various natural environments. To me…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
BACKGROUND: Plastices have become commonplace manufacturing materials that find applications in avariety of industeies . However, this conversion produces pollutants and greenhouse gases suc…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering First Award
Wildlife-vehicle conflict poses injury/mortality risks to both drivers and wildlife. Eqwis detects animals approaching roads and alerts drivers through intelligent road signs, encouraging dr…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Soil erosion is a natural process that negatively impacts agriculture as it wears away top fertile soil. To prevent soil erosion, Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) is one of the…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Approximately 80 percent of wastewater worldwide returns to the ecosystem without treatment, meaning 1.8 billion people use a contaminated source of drinking water. The purpose of this exper…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The aim of this work is to measure the parameters of sea water quality, their wireless transmission as well as their posting on the internet. The quantities that are measured are the tempera…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
This project analyzes the different effects nature has on a slopes stability. It focuses on the effects of rain, water, vegetation, and suction stress. The purpose of the experiment is to de…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
With no biodegradable alternative to plastic cutlery on the market today, we were determined to find a valid, eco-friendly solution with rapid, non-toxic biodegradation in multiple environme…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The goal of this study is to provide an alternative to the disposable plastics that are commonly used in packaging. Plastic waste is becoming a significant source of waste disposal not only…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project was to test the effects of plastic waste as a concrete additive. The research question was: How will mixing plastic into concrete affect the concrete's strength?…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The Mississippi River is a huge untapped kinetic energy source that flows at a rate of 1.6 million gallons of water per second. Meanwhile, burning fossil fuels produces 35 billion gigatons o…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
According to WHO 12.6 million people die every year owing to unhealthy environment. Therefore, the sustainable use of our ecosystem and preservation of next generation rights became an urgen…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Many water sources contain emerging contaminants (contaminants whose water presence has only recently been confirmed) that lead to debilitating health and environmental effects, yet current…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Aquaculture wastewater with high nitrite concentration due to low denitrification activity in winter is lethal to hydrobionts such as fish and shrimp. Therefore, bioremediation using bacteri…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering First Award
Plastic waste poses threats to both the environment and human health. PET is the world’s most common plastic. Compared to traditional methods to treat PET waste, biodegradation is environmen…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Given the growing world population, the increasing energy consumption and global warming threats, the search for long-term alternative energy sources is of extreme importance. This project a…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Today, the water crisis is growing overall in the world, not only in terms of the little amount of water but also in the misuse of water resources. The paper and pulp industry is a major con…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Due to its toxic effects, such as heart, neurological, and skin diseases, elevated arsenic in water/soil is the 6th leading cause of nonaccidental death globally. While arsenic filtration te…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
This project is to create a buoy-type wave generator using eco-friendly buoys, focusing on the difficulty in installing the existing wave power generators and the corrosion of styrofoam buoy…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The project's goal was to create a methodology for a low-cost, easily reproducible way to purify water because lack of clean drinking water is a deadly problem, especially in the developing…