Browse real student projects, abstracts, and awards.
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The question was: What effect do different concentrations of tannic acid powder, St. Louis River water, and non-resistant Staphylococcus aureus have on bacterial growth and biofilm developme…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The title of the present research project is “The Use of Peat in Eliminating Environmental Pollution from Bodies of Water”. This topic is relevant because in today’s world, environmental pol…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
My research was centered around finding an effective soil remediating alternative to cattle manure in replenishing soil nutrients in areas damaged by intense forest fires. Bamboo Biochar was…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Acid mine drainage poses a major risk to the nearby ecosystems as the accompanying low pH and high metal content kill plants. Sulfate-reducing bacteria have the potential to remediate this d…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to test if mealworm larvae are an effective plastic cleanup method. 1500 mealworms were divided into 15 different habitats with 100 larvae in each group. F…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Despite the appearance of clean water, all across the world in our oceans and major water sources, there are toxic metal pollutants occurring every year. These heavy metals can have a densit…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Polymers are the main residues that cause numerous environmental impacts, such as, death of animals, mainly marine life. Since one of the main properties of these polymers is durability, it…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
This study was done to evaluate mealworms’ (Tenebrio molitor) ability to biodegrade Polystyrene (PS) and the use of their gut bacteria to isolate and identify microbes that could metabolize…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
In this experiment, we will be conducting an examination based on adding distillation to our preceding systems of water filtration. In doing this, we will be allowed to examine which method…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project was to develop and test a reusable and energy-efficient device to filter microplastics (plastics under 5mm in size) created by tire wear. This research is importa…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to develop an alternative cooling system to replace the aging 5,900 acres of cooling canals at FPL’s Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant in South Florida. The…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Eastern Saudi Arabia is home to Jafurah, the largest domestic unconventional non-associated gas field. The air surrounding this facility must be monitored effectively to prevent life-threate…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Only 3% of the water on earth is freshwater, and only a third of this is accessible for agricultural use. This poses a difficult problem for the agricultural industry because the technology…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The world's waters are fighting with numerous issues but spreading below the surface is a serious issue - our waters are running out of oxygen. Areas of water that contain low or zero levels…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Environmental and economic concerns over accumulating plastic waste and dwindling reserves of fine-grade sand are on the rise. A proposed solution to both problems has been to replace sand w…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Acid rain is a common air pollution problem in southern China. Its acid particles corrode metal structures, causing significant economic losses and safety hazards. Traditional organic polyme…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics (MP) are plastic debris smaller than 5 millimeters that are left behind from plastic pollution, which poses a threat to human health and marine life. In this study, a natural c…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The project aims to use an available organic waste, the orange peel, for the degradation and reuse of expanded polystyrene, a plastic that takes more than 500 years to degrade and generates…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The study began by thinking that the blood of smokers would be effective in attracting heavy-metals after seeing a paper stating that heavy-metals were detected more than non-smokers. The au…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Many people in rural areas are dealing with severe water shortages, but these locations are also big producers of banana plants, which require a great amount of water. In order to deal with…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The research report tries to explain through the experimentation we did with the larva Cerambycidae, which is a beetle that lives as a parasite in cocoa crops in the Amazon, for farmers it i…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Waste management continues to be an topic of great interest worldwide due to the ever-increasing population and it’s demands. Currently, one of the known technologies is waste to energy reco…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to produce and test a prototype aid in water conservation within a domestic, consumer context. A specialized recirculating faucet system was built using direct filtration t…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Water sampling is crucial for water quality management and analysis. However, conventional methods of sampling water can be expensive, dangerous, and inefficient. Areas such as pit mines, fl…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Due to the accumulation generated by expanded polystyrene (EPS) materials such as plates, glasses and others disposable of single use (those delivered in supermarkets, restaurants, convenien…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The objective of this research was to determine if the artificial structure housing calcite would have significant effects on (1) increasing average oyster (Crassostrea virginica) growth rat…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Constructed wetlands have been used to remediate contaminated water. In addition to the aesthetic qualities these wetlands provide, they have been used to treat water contaminated with metal…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Hydropower is the conversion of tidal energy into electricity. Being completely surrounded by ocean water, however, Hawai?i has the potential to rely on hydropower to supply renewable energy…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is a serious problem in many water bodies around the world. Eutrophication is caused by an accumulation of nutrient salts, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which then stimulat…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Rapid developments in industry and economy have resulted in global water issues, both in the environment, like contamination, and in alarming increases in demand. It is essential to develop…