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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…
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…