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ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Bangladesh has a serious problem: 20 million in the country drink water well above the arsenic contamination standard. Phytoremediation can be effective in removing heavy metals from water,…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
One of the biggest problems in both developing and developed nations is the lack of clean water, which induces disease and poverty in communities globally. Mobile applications carry immense…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Landfilling of biowaste instead of composting or recycling it is a major problem for many countries around the world. Even in regions where recycling is common it is not available to everybo…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The main purpose of this project is to increase productivity of conventional wind turbines economically and decrease the negative ramifications those should be contemplated on our environmen…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Plastic and styrofoam, which occupy a large proportion in marine wastes, are not degraded with ease, resulting fatal problems in aquatic ecosystem; they are frequently ingested by aquatic or…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This project’s goals were to determine the failure point of carbon-coated oyster shells when filtering lead (Pb) from water, and to investigate which components of carbon-coated shells lend…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The purpose of this research is to develop a quick, accurate, affordable, and quantitative test for lead in water. Lead contamination in drinking water is a public health concern. The EPA’s…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to test if Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, and Candida albicans can biosorp lead, which is currently one of the most problematic heavy metals th…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Current consumption culture is a producer-polluting framework which harms the environment. Consumers cannot determine raw materials, production process and disposal of goods. Moreover, they…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Seventy percent of world's water is used for agricultural purposes which makes up most of our surface water and is needed to feed the world. We live in a desert which makes water even scarce…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The problem of desert irrigation is challenging task for modern science with great potential benefits for humans. Therefore, the project's objective was to develop a desert irrigation method…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
Arsenic, a highly toxic metal contaminant commonly found in our drinking water, is responsible for many accidental deaths. Currently, the only visual arsenic-in-water detection system is ted…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After trying to naturally reduce nitrate levels in an aquarium, we began to wonder if there were natural ways to remove nitrate levels in streams. We collected stream water from the New Prag…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Exposure to organic environmental contaminants in water supplies can lead to adverse health effects. Non-thermal plasmas have been proposed for waste-water treatment as a means to degrade or…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After harvesting, rice stubble left in the fields become agriculture waste which is hard to removed. However, most farmers prefer the convenient way of burning the rice stubbles which eventu…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The intelligent disinfection cabinet for textbooks is sterilized with ozone, with an automatic page turning device used to make textbook pages contact with the ozone fully and enable a thoro…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
In the last few decades, biodiesel has attracted considerable attention as a renewable energy source. However, more than 3 billion liters of waste glycerol from annual biodiesel production c…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Chemical Dispersant is primarily used to reduce the size of oil droplets, effectively preventing oil spills from causing environmental havoc at water-surface level. While standard chemical d…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Biomonitoring programs provide valuable information about trends in ecosystem health. However they rely on manual identification of biological samples, which can be both time consuming and s…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
This experiment was done to help protect the environment from plastic waste in the landfills and oceans. Plastic waste is becoming a huge problem for the wildlife in the oceans and even for…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
This research aims solving two different problems. The first one is the non-complete recycling of expanded polystyrene (EPS) which, due the delay in its decomposition – around 150 years, lea…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Introduction The oil industry is extremely important in the entire world. Although oil is a very important resource, it can cause devastating environmental problems if an oil spill occurs. T…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
There remains a continued need for inexpensive techniques for filtering out heavy metals from contaminated water. Studies have shown efficacy of biochar (pyrolyzed organic matter) for heavy…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The agriculture industry contributes heavily to land, water and air pollution due to the poor management of agricultural waste products and wastewater. A potential method of addressing these…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Industrial pollution has been a major environmental concern globally. A significant type of these industrial pollutants is organic dyes, which have been found to negatively affect human heal…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Microfluidics is a technology that operates with fluids in sets of miniature channels. Using small samples allows for reduced cost, harmful waste, reaction time, and analysis time. Microflui…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Chromite mining has contributed intensely to pollution of soil and ground water by hexavalent chromium, a potential carcinogen and mutagen for plants and bacteria. In the present study, I re…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
PURPOSE OF PROJECT Diapers are thrown away as a method of disposing them, these result in litter as they contain plastic which is non-biodegradable therefore polluting the environment as wel…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
In the 1900’s silver was used extensively as an antimicrobial agent. When antibiotics were developed they became very popular and silver as an anti-bactericide decreased (Alexander, 2009). T…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are a more renewable, cost efficient, and a more effortless form of energy production. MFC take advantage of specific ion producing exoelectrogenic bacteria (G.sul…