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ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
This project focuses on the design and implementation of an innovative rainwater harvesting and flood prevention system using a concrete-based structure. The system is integrated into a resi…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
The alarming rise in solar photovoltaic (PV) waste, particularly non-biodegradable glass, poses a growing environmental concern, with global waste projected to reach 78 million metric tons b…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely used in various products such as non-stick cookware and fire-fighting form. Due to their non-degradable properties ascribed to the…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
The ornamental stone industry is responsible for the production of granites and marbles, but not all extracted material is used, as waste is discarded into nature due to its lack of added va…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Guava seeds, often discarded as waste during fruit processing, represent a significant untapped resource. In 2023, Egypt produced over 363,000 tons of guava, resulting in approximately 54,00…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics persist in the environment, move across the food chain, and are easily ingested because of their tiny sizes, harming aquatic organisms and posing health risks to humans. As par…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
As the potential of microalgae as a resource becomes increasingly recognized, this study explored foam flotation as a means to extract it from an aqueous environment. A small-scale column fl…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Water pollution is a global issue, with sources ranging from industrialization and agricultural activities, to natural disasters like wildfires. These fires are especially concerning as they…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is responsible for around 7 million premature deaths each year. It remains a major risk to human health, especially in urban a…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal contamination in coastal ecosystems, such as the southern shores of Oahu, poses critical ecological risks. This study explores the potential of Aiptasia anemones for bioremediati…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
The total generation of solid waste in the US is 292.4 million tons/year, EPA (2024), and its processing requires the use of one of the least efficient vehicles on the road, the garbage truc…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Purpose: Design a vacuum unit suitable for integration into multiple water heating systems to prevent the waste of cold water that comes first when we want to use hot water in the taps in th…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Oil pollution on water surfaces remains a critical environmental challenge, with over 20 million liters of oil discharged into aquatic ecosystems each year. These spills endanger marine life…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Pumped storage hydropower (PSH) is a battery free, energy storage system that uses the potential energy of water to generate hydroelectric power. Our hypothesis was that we would be able to…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Oil spills pose serious threats to marine ecosystems, disrupting biodiversity and causing widespread environmental and economic damage. Conventional cleanup techniques—such as booms, skimmer…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Access to treated water is a challenge in many communities around the world. Globally, 2.2 billion people do not have access to drinking water. In Brazil, over 33 million people face this pr…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Industrial Reverse Osmosis (“RO”) provides safe drinking water to homes and is supplied by ocean water. As such, the quantity of waste water produced by this method is inconsequential. Notab…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
In the Philippines, where one-third of employment is in the agricultural sector, low agricultural productivity has hindered economic growth. Thus, AGRIGENT was developed to improve greenhous…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
There is an urgent need for an awareness campaign to educate the public on the hazards of haphazard littering in urban centers, especially with plastic bottles and papers, these products are…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Globally, over 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water leading to 3.4 million waterborne deaths yearly. Existing purification methods are often ineffective against both biologica…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Biological Charcoal, or Biochar, is one of the most promising tools recently found for effective carbon capture and sequestration. Biochar is capable of binding to CO2 through a process call…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
I was inspired to commence this experiment after reading an alarming statistic; due to hydrocarbon pollution, Australia declared 80,000 soil sites contaminated, Europe 3 million sites, and t…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Kenya faces substantial challenges regarding water scarcity, sanitation, and hygiene, significantly impacting public health, economic growth and social equity. With a significant portion of…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The number of annual lead-poisoning fatalities exceeds the combined annual fatalities from car accidents and malaria. Cadmium causes DNA damage. A leading heavy metal exposure source is surf…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Surges in Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) due to fallouts of anthropogenic activities and climate change are recurrently impairing water quality. Biodiverse ecosystems like the Indian River Lago…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This study proposes a generative AI procedure for managing land resources to optimize the payoff between economic and environmental benefit. Randomly selected land usage images in the northe…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Utah’s Great Salt Lake (GSL) is facing a critical situation, with projections indicating its potential disappearance within five years. This could cause an unprecedented environmental, healt…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Plastics in the market are produced from a fossil source. However, these are harming our environment, making plastic pollution one of the most urgent issues in our world. Thus, there is cons…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The shipping industry is enormous and is responsible for 90% of transport worldwide, however the carbon emissions only equivalate to around 3%. Even so the efficiency of the industry can sti…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The US Corps of Engineers completed an electric fish barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in 2002 to prevent the invasive Asian carp from moving into the Great Lakes. The Great Lak…