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ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
In this project, the ability of dried date palm leaflets and dehydrated carbon that prepared from it was proved to remove some light and heavy metal ions from aqueous solution and well water…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Carbon emissions from the energy and transportation sectors are the most significant contributors to the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Increasing green…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Disposable diapers are one of the top contributors to waste in landfills. In the US alone, nearly 25 billion diapers are deposited into landfills each year. This project aims to reduce the t…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
My project involves developing a sustainable, affordable, and environmentally sound building material for seismically active regions in the developing world to use in place of adobe. This ma…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The water situation in the Atacama region is entering a critical stage, especially in the north of Chile, which is supplied by groundwater. "In the fourth sector of the watershed, where the…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The concept of sustainability provides the framework for this technological project. The study consists in designing and creating a device to recycle organic household waste, with the object…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The evolution of the human civilization requires increasing energy consumption. The contemporary energy supply systems were developed mainly on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, but these are…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
First of all, as a country with almost no source of petroleum, the Jordanian society faces countless issues in regards to any field that requires the use of petroleum such as industry, trans…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Inhaling carbon monoxide can be fatal. This gas is produced whenever fuel is burnt and the level of carbon monoxide exhaled can be life threatening without any visible warning signs. Therefo…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
In the Concentration Combination experiment, the combination of luminescent solar concentration and solar water heating was investigated. The purpose of the experiment was to determine wheth…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The Desert Vapor Tube is a 1 km tube which desalinates ocean water by solar power. It is our answer to the need of drinking water in poor developing countries since it uses sustainable energ…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
With an interest in agriculture and renewable energy, I merged them into a two-part study to determine if biosolids from a wastewater treatment plant would enhance the growth of CP 25 Bioene…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Blood red boulders are scattered across a large area above the creek in Hailuogou, Gongga Mountain, Sichuan, the red matter attached to the stones is a species of Trentepohlia, a type of sub…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Compost tea plant applications reduce foliar diseases and the toxicity that is associated with chemical fertilization use, in part due to beneficial bacteria within the tea. With higher coun…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
I was trying to determine which packaging product had the greatest rate of decomposition, out of bulrush, bamboo, sugarcane, and corn starch. I constructed 21 bins, each measuring 2' by 6".…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
There are many ways water can become contaminated with copper sulfate. Copper sulfate is a hazard when in water to animals and humans. Ordinary methods of removal use a chelating agent and o…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The purpose is to create a completely self-sustainable toilet that does not need water nor external electric sources to operate. The toilet will have the capacity of recycling wastes into fu…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Lichens have been used as biological indicators of environmental pollution. As lichens show high sensitivity to air quality, hundreds of studies have linked lichen communities to air quality…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The world is heading towards an energy crisis due to the huge consumption of energy in many fields including, but not restricted to, distillation techniques. Thermal distillation technique,…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Current ethanol production methods offer impractical and expensive long-term solutions that would cause dramatic increases in food prices and require extensive areas of land. This research o…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The need for alternative fuel sources is becoming increasingly evident due to the climate changing effects of gasoline. One popular alternative, corn, may not be better due to the energy req…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Global warming is a real world problem that we each have a responsibility in helping to reduce. My project was to see what type of grass could help reduce global warming. My hypothesis was t…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Spent bleaching earth (SBE) is waste product from the palm oil refining industries and mostly is disposed in landfill. This project studies the zero waste management to reuse the remaining p…