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ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics are a rapidly emerging contaminant in water sources. California is in the process of adopting a standardized testing method to monitor microplastics in drinking water (Bill SB1…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Liquid transport in porous materials is used in many industries: in everyday life, medicine, liquid filtration. These processes are of great practical importance: for example, they help to e…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Following my last year’s project, I continue to be concerned by the environmental impact of polymeric waste – how it scars the land and poisons water – and ways to improve its recyclability…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering First Award
Produced water generated during oil and gas production is primarily disposed of through deep-well injection, which is costly, has limited receiving capacity, and induces seismicity. Produced…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
As climate change transforms the world, it is essential to identify and counter global threats to the environment and its people - especially in the case of wildfires. On the rise over the p…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Fishing is one the most significant drivers of declines in ocean wildlife populations. Overfished stock numbers have nearly tripled in half a century and a third of the world's assessed fish…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Single use plastics are increasingly common in society, with waste from bottles, packaging, and containers filling up landfills and damaging ecosystems worldwide. At the same time, 3D printi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning coal for industrial and energy purposes account for a sizable portion of the United States total CO2 emissions. Commercially viable CO2 sequestrat…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
In order to solve the short supply of vegetable during the Covid-19 pandemic, this project sets up a aquaponics system based on the artificial intelligence in family environment by using cle…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Oil spills pose significant threat to all environmental, political, economic aspects in global settings. However, current oil absorbents that are most commonly used are made of polypropylene…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Since the mass haunt of jellyfish due to global warming causes serious damage to many fishing grounds, a method of resourceization using the adhesive component of jellyfish gelatin was inves…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Every year in the United States, 133 billion pounds of food waste is produced, of which 68% is potentially edible. At the same time, 35.2 million people in the U.S. struggle with food insecu…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Printable inks, both synthetic and soy-based, require chemical separation during the recycling process resulting in contaminated wastewater and the release of dangerous volatile organic comp…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plastic pollution is a major pandemic for the environment. For the last 27 years, over 9.5 million volunteers have collected 163 million pounds of garbage from more than 330,000 miles of coa…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
On average, about 25,000 tons of sanitary waste is released daily. Due to the lack of proper disposal, these are found dumped in open areas and sometimes in the water bodies, leading to envi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics pose an increasing risk to beach ecosystems around the world. The abundance of microplastics negatively impacts natural processes such as evaporation, water flow, and heat tran…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Water pollution is a critical issue that threatens maintaining healthy living conditions. Clean drinking water is the base for the improvement of public health. In addition to the conservati…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
I worked on building the project based on my primary goal, which is to work on solving greater problems facing human life and facing the earth in general, such as the problems that the agric…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Arsenic contamination of drinking water is a worldwide problem. It is recognized that at least 140 million people in 50 countries have been drinking water containing arsenic at levels above…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
According to Ocean Planet, 363 million gallons of oil go down the world's drains every year. I designed a filtration device that removed water flowing into storm drains. Building on previous…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The diversity and effectiveness of plastic items testify for the utility of polymers. Nonetheless, the non-biodegradability of these polymers has been a source of ecological concerns. Most p…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Crassostrea virginica, or Eastern oyster, is a vital indicator species native to the eastern United States coast. In recent years, water pollution and overharvesting have been threatening th…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Several types of heavy metals such as lead, zinc, and manganese have high toxicity at high levels. Therefore, it is necessary to have an environmentally friendly adsorbent to be used in a fi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Gasoline-fueled small engines have been known to cause immense pollution in the form of nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, unburnt hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide. Ethanol has…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Natural and anthropogenic sources pollute lakes and rivers worldwide, endangering freshwater supplies. To address water-related problems, physical sampling and data collection are required.…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Cigarettes are the most prominent form of plastic litter with 5.4 trillion discarded annually. Traditional disposal practices are unable to prevent leaching of harmful chemicals found in the…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Micron-sized aerosols which are the dominant mechanism of spread for influenza and tuberculosis are implicated as the likely mode of transmission for COVID-19. This study examines whether ae…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Many modern solar energy systems have adopted a mobility system over an immobile panel, but is it worth the cost, and is it much more efficient than an immobile system? This project tests th…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
For over a decade, it has been known that the toxic dyes released from textile factories into wastewaters have severe damaging effects on the marine eco-system as they disrupt photosynthetic…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
According to the World Health Organization, 783-million people lack access to clean, drinking water. The majority of areas stricken with non-potable water, however, are relatively close in p…