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ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
With clean water being a requirement for human life, it’s appalling 660 million people lack access to it. Those without access must travel an average of 3.7 miles carrying 20 L of water on t…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The recent revolution of unconventional shale gas resources has flipped the coin to a new era in the oil and gas industry and the world. The primary motivation of this research is to utilize…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Soil acidification due to imprudent use of chemical soil fertilizers has become a serious problem these days. Limestone is widely used as a solution to this problem, however it causes second…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The use of photovoltaic solar energy for the generation of electric energy has been increasingly considered in several countries as a great alternative to reduce the environmental impacts ca…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The structural health monitoring (SHM) is extremely important because Taiwan is located on the pacific seismic belt where earthquake hazards occur frequently. Maintenance management is requi…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Background: Water pollution by water-soluble dyes which by the textile industry is a major environmental problem leading to health hazards. Green chemistry proposes the use of hydrogen perox…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Indoor air pollution is the world’s biggest environmental killer; every year over four million people die prematurely from poor indoor air quality (IAQ). Exposure to poor IAQ can result in m…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal water pollution is a growing concern worldwide due to the ongoing operations of battery manufacturing, paint/pigment production, glass industries, etc. Current methods of heavy m…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the feasibility of creating a polyethylene-degrading bacterial gel. The larva of Galleria mellonella, also known as wax worms, was discovered r…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The increased use of wind turbines will inevitably lead to a large number of worn out rotor blades within about twenty years. Up to now, there is no solution yet to recycle or to re-use the…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Clean water is vital for human consumption and medical treatment, as well as equipment sterilization. 80% of illnesses in developing countries relate to poor water quality and 3.4 million pe…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Women in India and Africa ultimately do not have the necessary resources for women hygienic routines. Also, the forming problem of TSS in the environment is affecting the lives of many peopl…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
By 2050, global population is projected to reach 9 billion people. Farmers need to implement innovative methods like Precision Agriculture to produce 70% more food to feed everyone on existi…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Today, billions of plastic particles have entered the aquatic biomes of our planet. They will infiltrate, pollute, and slowly destroy our world for generations to come. As these plastics are…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Gold (Au) mining has detrimental environmental impacts on land and water (surface and groundwater) contamination. Tailing Storage Facilities (TSF), or mine dumps, may contain multiple contam…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Due to anthropic actions, greenhouse gases, especially CO2, are released into the atmosphere, causing air pollution and increasing Earth’s temperature. Despite being a developing country sig…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Many people in rural, poverty-stricken areas of the globe lack reliable access to clean water and though treatment techniques exist, building the infrastructure required for a treatment plan…
ISEF · 2018
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 of Nitrate and Phosphate and ar…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Carbon dioxide (CO2 ) is a major contributor towards the advancement of global warming as per scientific community consensus. Atmospheric levels of CO2 hit an all time high in 2015 as per a…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This project explores the air purification properties of various indoor landscaping plants (Sansevieria trifasciata, Spathiphyllum wallisii and Epipremnum aureum), to remove pollutants such…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
With over a billion people affected by lack of access to freshwater, desalination is an important avenue to ameliorate this crisis. Prior research by the author demonstrated the feasibility…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine the inhibitory effects of the cis form of 1,2-Dichloroethene (cis-DCE), a widespread toxic chlorinated solvent contaminant, on the growth of t…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
At present, we are faced with a variety of problems related to the mismanagement of natural resources such as pollution of ecosystems caused by the wastes that originate in our activities, s…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Solar (PV) cells play a major role in turning our world green. The accumulation of dust and soil on the surface of (PV) cells drops its efficiency up to 85%.All technologies used for cleanin…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Much of the world’s drinking water is contaminated with harmful compounds including lead making it unsafe for human consumption. The project goal is to design a system filter enough water fo…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The process of fracking, although very beneficial to our lifestyle and economy, can be harmful to the environment and aquatic ecosystems (Dindorf, 2008). Hagen (2015) reports that chloride s…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Due to the spread of eco-friendly farming methods using freshwater snail, the amount of freshwater snail waste produced on farms has increased to 6,500 tons per year. This increase is causin…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
An experiment to investigate the adsorbent capacity of tin sand from Bangka Island Indonesia toward the lead/Pb(II) ion in lead aqueous solution either non-modified sand and magnetite-coated…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
This project was designed in order to determine the ability of Aurelia aurita mucus to bioaccumulate different types of oils. The project stemmed from another study that determined Aurelia a…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Chlorpyrifos(CPFS) is a pesticide extensively used by farmers. It is extremely dangerous to human and animal health, even at levels of 0.1 ppm. Pre-natal exposure to CPFS results in neurolog…