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ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The inhalable particulate matter (PM10) is one of the major atmospheric pollutants, which is harmful to human health because it can cause several respiratory diseases. In Brazil, the state o…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
In many developing countries, average citizens do not have access to clean drinking water. By building types of cheap, easily built filters, these citizens may have access to water that is l…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Industrialization and urban stressors have accelerated the increasing levels of the most dangerous contaminants in our water bodies, heavy metals, because of their non-biodegradability, thei…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Our project is about used the Garbages and sewages water to generate electric and methane gas and treatment the sewages water to use in watering the plant and produce fertilizers to the plan…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Growing concerns about eutrophication induced by elevated phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) levels in water and wastewater demand innovative water quality treatment technologies. My previous r…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Goldenrod is an invasive plant that spreads quickly and displaces native plants. People actively struggle with it. It is almost impossible to get rid of the plant but we can figure out how t…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution is a serious health and environmental issue which affects over 1/3 of the global population. In previous work, graphene oxide (GO) was synthesized and coated on sand. The ver…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
WHO stated that globally 50,000 people die every day due to diseases caused by water pollution. Therefore, water treatment is one of the world scientific research priorities. Most techniques…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs), which are fatal to aquatic ecosystems, human health, and water-reliant industries, largely occur because of an unnatural increase in Nitrate and Phosphate and ar…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Water deficiency causes various agricultural problems in many areas of Thailand. We observed that the bromeliad plant (Aechmea aculeatosepala) can grow in dry areas because its leaves can co…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
One of the most oil-consuming activities in the globe is plastics industry that drains 685 gallons of oil per ton of plastic produced. Moreover, landfilling – the most common waste managemen…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The accumulation of expanded polystyrene foam waste in landfills and oceans is an increasing global problem. Every year in the U.S. alone, a staggering 900 million kilograms of polystyrene f…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Arsenic contamination of water sources is a global problem, affecting numerous countries across the world. Natural weathering and anthropogenic sources, such as mining and use of coal-fired…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
In Minas Gerais, Brazil, grows the Macaùba Palm. The fruits of this palm contain a lot of useful components. We made a business plan for the use of these components for the purification of w…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Solar Water Disinfection(SODIS) is an inexpensive and effective method for disinfecting water using cost-effective materials like PET bottles and sunlight. Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) i…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project is to be able to provide a sustainable method of water filtration and to purify water safely and easily. Moringa Oleifera is a highly-valued plant, distributed in…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
We spend billions of dollars to clean up our environment from oil disasters all over the planet. The current methods never fully remove all of the oil that is spilled. The winds and ocean cu…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Throughout our research project, we will be analyzing the properties of a relatively new yet potentially pivotal scientific breakthrough, which is Newspaper Cuttings, occasionally recognized…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Current post-combustion CO2 capture technologies are energy intensive, require high temperature heat sources, and dramatically increase the cost of power generation. This work introduces a n…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that can be harnessed using technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy and solar architecture. These technolo…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
It has been reported that, unless new deposits are discovered, the world’s phosphorus reserves will be depleted in 40 to 400 years. Nutrient over-enrichment primarily by phosphorous in storm…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The potential salinization of agricultural land in Hawai?i due to tsunami inundation or storm surges would make the soil unsuitable for growing crops. Finding a sustainable way to remove sal…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The world of 3D printing is thus far not closely aligned with the world of the consumer. In the eyes of the average consumer, 3D printers are large, abstracted, industrial machines like inje…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Forward Osmosis (FO) is an alternative method of desalination that uses a hypertonic “draw" solution to leach water molecules from a hypotonic "feed" solution such as seawater across a semip…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Originally an idea to plot the course of meteorites through the Earth's atmosphere, fragmentation of meteors proved too difficult to include. The project was modified into a way to lessen th…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
In this project an environment friendly, multi purposed, biodegradable bag dissolved in short span of time is going to be produced. As natural raw material, Wild Asphodelus aestivus Plant Ro…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Cement production industry suffers from a huge increase in the Cement Kiln Dust (CKD) as a solid waste; the fine powder separated in the dust collection system when burning the cement clinke…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
In the RecycloTrash project, a trash can which sorts between recyclable and unrecyclable items that are thrown into it was designed and built. After the trash can was designed using the Auto…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Automotive exhaust emissions are of much environmental concern due to toxic pollutants such as Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Hydrocarbons (HC). One role of the standard catalytic converter in an…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
A photobioreactor is used for cultivating multiple phototrophic microorganisms to generate a biomass that can be utilized for energy or biofuel refinement. The objective of this project was…