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ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Every year in the United States, 133 billion pounds of food waste is produced, of which 68% is potentially edible. At the same time, 35.2 million people in the U.S. struggle with food insecu…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Printable inks, both synthetic and soy-based, require chemical separation during the recycling process resulting in contaminated wastewater and the release of dangerous volatile organic comp…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plastic pollution is a major pandemic for the environment. For the last 27 years, over 9.5 million volunteers have collected 163 million pounds of garbage from more than 330,000 miles of coa…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
On average, about 25,000 tons of sanitary waste is released daily. Due to the lack of proper disposal, these are found dumped in open areas and sometimes in the water bodies, leading to envi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics pose an increasing risk to beach ecosystems around the world. The abundance of microplastics negatively impacts natural processes such as evaporation, water flow, and heat tran…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Water pollution is a critical issue that threatens maintaining healthy living conditions. Clean drinking water is the base for the improvement of public health. In addition to the conservati…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
I worked on building the project based on my primary goal, which is to work on solving greater problems facing human life and facing the earth in general, such as the problems that the agric…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Arsenic contamination of drinking water is a worldwide problem. It is recognized that at least 140 million people in 50 countries have been drinking water containing arsenic at levels above…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
According to Ocean Planet, 363 million gallons of oil go down the world's drains every year. I designed a filtration device that removed water flowing into storm drains. Building on previous…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The diversity and effectiveness of plastic items testify for the utility of polymers. Nonetheless, the non-biodegradability of these polymers has been a source of ecological concerns. Most p…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Crassostrea virginica, or Eastern oyster, is a vital indicator species native to the eastern United States coast. In recent years, water pollution and overharvesting have been threatening th…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Several types of heavy metals such as lead, zinc, and manganese have high toxicity at high levels. Therefore, it is necessary to have an environmentally friendly adsorbent to be used in a fi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Gasoline-fueled small engines have been known to cause immense pollution in the form of nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, unburnt hydrocarbons, sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide. Ethanol has…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Natural and anthropogenic sources pollute lakes and rivers worldwide, endangering freshwater supplies. To address water-related problems, physical sampling and data collection are required.…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Cigarettes are the most prominent form of plastic litter with 5.4 trillion discarded annually. Traditional disposal practices are unable to prevent leaching of harmful chemicals found in the…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Micron-sized aerosols which are the dominant mechanism of spread for influenza and tuberculosis are implicated as the likely mode of transmission for COVID-19. This study examines whether ae…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Many modern solar energy systems have adopted a mobility system over an immobile panel, but is it worth the cost, and is it much more efficient than an immobile system? This project tests th…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
For over a decade, it has been known that the toxic dyes released from textile factories into wastewaters have severe damaging effects on the marine eco-system as they disrupt photosynthetic…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
According to the World Health Organization, 783-million people lack access to clean, drinking water. The majority of areas stricken with non-potable water, however, are relatively close in p…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The question was: What effect do different concentrations of tannic acid powder, St. Louis River water, and non-resistant Staphylococcus aureus have on bacterial growth and biofilm developme…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The title of the present research project is “The Use of Peat in Eliminating Environmental Pollution from Bodies of Water”. This topic is relevant because in today’s world, environmental pol…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
My research was centered around finding an effective soil remediating alternative to cattle manure in replenishing soil nutrients in areas damaged by intense forest fires. Bamboo Biochar was…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Acid mine drainage poses a major risk to the nearby ecosystems as the accompanying low pH and high metal content kill plants. Sulfate-reducing bacteria have the potential to remediate this d…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to test if mealworm larvae are an effective plastic cleanup method. 1500 mealworms were divided into 15 different habitats with 100 larvae in each group. F…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Despite the appearance of clean water, all across the world in our oceans and major water sources, there are toxic metal pollutants occurring every year. These heavy metals can have a densit…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Polymers are the main residues that cause numerous environmental impacts, such as, death of animals, mainly marine life. Since one of the main properties of these polymers is durability, it…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
This study was done to evaluate mealworms’ (Tenebrio molitor) ability to biodegrade Polystyrene (PS) and the use of their gut bacteria to isolate and identify microbes that could metabolize…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
In this experiment, we will be conducting an examination based on adding distillation to our preceding systems of water filtration. In doing this, we will be allowed to examine which method…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project was to develop and test a reusable and energy-efficient device to filter microplastics (plastics under 5mm in size) created by tire wear. This research is importa…