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ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The countryside El Tobal of Carcasi presents an environmental problem caused by dairy cheese whey, a by-product of the cheese industry, which generates contamination in the waters present in…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
To reverse the rise in atmospheric CO2 content, researchers continue to investigate ways to sequester the greenhouse gas in what is known as carbon capture and storage (CCS). In CCS, CO2 is…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution caused by industries has become a major problem around the world. Heavy toxic metals found in industrial wastewater are listed under the environmental pollutants category due…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The purpose of this scientific inquiry, the Chocolate Garden, was to determine the most effective method of composting waste cocoa shell from a local chocolate company. About 20% of the tota…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
According to the United States Statistics Division, the production of hazardous wastes around the world has increased drastically by a rate of 40,000% in just one generation. Hazardous indus…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Countless fertilizers and plant-conditioning products utilize nitrates, which when presented into an ecosystem with surrounding bodies of water, catalyze the dangerous process of eutrophicat…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Purpose: Some microorganisms can degrade toxic hydrocarbons in crude oils and petroleum based products by bioremediation. In this process, microbial strains with unusual metabolic pathways w…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
This science fair project worked to develop a solution to the problem of infeasible and inaccurate deployable pH sensors not suited for the marine environment reduce the quantity of accurate…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
With 780 million people without access to a potable water source, the development of a simple, self-powered, and point-of-use water system is desirable to remove waterborne bacteria, and che…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered water recovery systems, for desalination of ocean or brackish water, minimize climate change but are prohibiti…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The project consists in the elaboration of a measurer of radon gas through the conditioning of a Geiger-Müller counter, with the purpose of making a portable, less expensive and more precise…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Plastics are responsible for several damages to the environment. They, annually, cause more than one million birds’ deaths and other 100 thousand marine mammals’ deaths. On the other hand, p…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The objective of this research was to determine if Eastern Oysters and Hard Shell Clams filtration ability to naturally filter and improve the overall water quality would be affected if the…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The Bio-Photovoltaic Fuel Cell (BPFC) is a promising new technology that generates clean electrochemical energy using the photosynthetic activity of organisms. However, existing BPFCs use ex…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Purpose Claus Process is renowned for treating hydrogen sulfide, a toxic substance that is very dangerous to human causing bronchial, heart diseases, or even death when exposed to a high con…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal pollution is a pressing global environmental threat and public health concern. In this study, sustainable nanofiber coagulants were synthesized to remove heavy metals lead, cadmi…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Fertilizers containing nitrogen continue to be an integral aspect of the farming economy in the Midwest. Excess run-off of nitrates has become an environmental hazard. When the growth of alg…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Thousands of wells are drilled in shale reservoirs annually. The most common type of fluid used to drill horizontal wells in shale reservoirs is oil-based mud, using diesel and other compone…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
This research began over four years ago. During the summer of 2012 numerous bare patches were noticed in the hills in the Greybull area that were mined before reclamation was mandatory. The…
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…