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ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Currently, massive shield muck generated from urban metro construction is being transported outside and dumped regarding its undesirable engineering properties. Meanwhile, large amounts of i…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Walking through the streets of Budapest, Washington, and the biggest cities we can notice a common issue: we have failed to develop and sustain an accurate waste management system. Behind th…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to demonstrate the potential to predict soil temperature through a machine-learning approach, within a South African domestic garden environment. The vision of the project…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Every year in the US, millions of roadkill accidents occur making wildlife vehicle collisions (WVCs) a significant danger to both animals and humans. In addition, road networks become abioti…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which color of solar powered water purification device would purify water at the fastest rate. The hypothesis was if the bottom of a water pur…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The utilization of pesticides to protect agricultural productions and insect infestations for health and hygienic purposes has raised great concerns in the literature associated with soil, w…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Agricultural tile drainage, a method of providing drainage for fields, can cause large amounts of nutrients to be leached out of fields. Nutrients can be absorbed into the rainwater, which i…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
According to World Health Organization, by 2030, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths annually. One of the most critical factors leading to increased c…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
2 billion people lack access to safe, clean drinking water in their homes. Of those, 8 out of 10 lacking basic drinking water services live in remote or rural areas without coordinated water…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Clean water scarcity and food waste management are major environmental concerns worldwide. Food wastes are rich in bioactive compounds that are currently being disposed of in landfills, gene…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 20% more effective. Unfortunately, they are environmentally harmful and contain lead io…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Water pollution is an issue that affects living organisms worldwide. As human activity continues to increase pollution in our oceans, the livelihood of all marine creatures is affected, from…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Cord-making is a simple skill that has been used for thousands of years, yet very few people in the modern world know anything about the process. The purpose of this project was to determine…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Water quality describes the condition of water based on its chemical, physical, and biological state. Poor water quality poses health risks to humans and the environment, causing disease, an…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The rise of the fast fashion and textile industries has proliferated the release of toxic azo dye effluent into the environment, contributing to ~20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dye…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The project deals with how microplastics can be filtered out of washing machine wastewater. 35% of the microplastic released into our environment comes from washing machine wastewater. Our t…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Surfactant research is a rapidly developing field due to its booming applications in many fundamental industries such as detergents, fabric softeners, emulsions, and most importantly, corros…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Produced water (PW) generated during oil and gas production is primarily disposed of through deep-well injection, which is costly and induces seismicity. PW treatment and reuse can enhance e…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The Researcher plans to investigate the use of drones for air quality sampling in urban areas to detect harmful pathogens or toxic gasses. With his background in aerospace engineering and dr…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Among the worst domestic and industrial pollutants that affect water resources, we have oils, since one liter of this substance can contaminate up to twenty-five thousand liters of water. Al…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Air pollution, from the burning of fossil fuels, is associated with health issues and CO2 emissions linked to climate change. “Clean energy” sources reduce fossil fuel consumption but have o…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
I chose this experiment to try to reuse waste from paper mills to make them more environmentally friendly. I discovered the steam from some factories contains trace amounts of ammonia, and t…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Textile dyes have been a leading environmental pollutant for decades, causing mass degradation of ecosystems and wildlife. Although methods have been derived to break down these dyes, none a…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Plastic waste is an ongoing environmental pollution and contamination hazard across the world. Our experimental compost has been shown to accelerate the degradation process of low-crystallin…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Methane is the second most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and accounts for about 20 percent of global emissions. My project tests the ability to utilize the adsor…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Different types of 3D printing filaments have been recently used. One of the most commonly used filaments is PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) along with ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene)…