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ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to develop an alternative cooling system to replace the aging 5,900 acres of cooling canals at FPL’s Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant in South Florida. The…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Eastern Saudi Arabia is home to Jafurah, the largest domestic unconventional non-associated gas field. The air surrounding this facility must be monitored effectively to prevent life-threate…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Only 3% of the water on earth is freshwater, and only a third of this is accessible for agricultural use. This poses a difficult problem for the agricultural industry because the technology…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The world's waters are fighting with numerous issues but spreading below the surface is a serious issue - our waters are running out of oxygen. Areas of water that contain low or zero levels…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Environmental and economic concerns over accumulating plastic waste and dwindling reserves of fine-grade sand are on the rise. A proposed solution to both problems has been to replace sand w…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Acid rain is a common air pollution problem in southern China. Its acid particles corrode metal structures, causing significant economic losses and safety hazards. Traditional organic polyme…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics (MP) are plastic debris smaller than 5 millimeters that are left behind from plastic pollution, which poses a threat to human health and marine life. In this study, a natural c…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The project aims to use an available organic waste, the orange peel, for the degradation and reuse of expanded polystyrene, a plastic that takes more than 500 years to degrade and generates…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The study began by thinking that the blood of smokers would be effective in attracting heavy-metals after seeing a paper stating that heavy-metals were detected more than non-smokers. The au…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Many people in rural areas are dealing with severe water shortages, but these locations are also big producers of banana plants, which require a great amount of water. In order to deal with…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The research report tries to explain through the experimentation we did with the larva Cerambycidae, which is a beetle that lives as a parasite in cocoa crops in the Amazon, for farmers it i…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Waste management continues to be an topic of great interest worldwide due to the ever-increasing population and it’s demands. Currently, one of the known technologies is waste to energy reco…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to produce and test a prototype aid in water conservation within a domestic, consumer context. A specialized recirculating faucet system was built using direct filtration t…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Water sampling is crucial for water quality management and analysis. However, conventional methods of sampling water can be expensive, dangerous, and inefficient. Areas such as pit mines, fl…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Due to the accumulation generated by expanded polystyrene (EPS) materials such as plates, glasses and others disposable of single use (those delivered in supermarkets, restaurants, convenien…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The objective of this research was to determine if the artificial structure housing calcite would have significant effects on (1) increasing average oyster (Crassostrea virginica) growth rat…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Constructed wetlands have been used to remediate contaminated water. In addition to the aesthetic qualities these wetlands provide, they have been used to treat water contaminated with metal…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Hydropower is the conversion of tidal energy into electricity. Being completely surrounded by ocean water, however, Hawai?i has the potential to rely on hydropower to supply renewable energy…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is a serious problem in many water bodies around the world. Eutrophication is caused by an accumulation of nutrient salts, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which then stimulat…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Rapid developments in industry and economy have resulted in global water issues, both in the environment, like contamination, and in alarming increases in demand. It is essential to develop…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Freshwater accounts for 2.5% of the planet’s water, and the U.N.’s estimated 7.7 billion people on Earth are taxing that supply. With 3,100 cubic miles of freshwater vapor trapped in the atm…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
A massive drop in bearing acres is attributed to severe damage to the trees caused by freezing temperatures. A new freeze prevention method was created through incorporating a solar energy r…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
One of the most dangerous components of an oil spill is the emulsion that forms between the spilled oil and the surrounding seawater. This submerged emulsion can persist for many years and i…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
As a result of rising temperatures and sea levels, our available land space, freshwater, and food supplies are shrinking, just when they are most needed to support a growing population. Comm…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
With a goal of reducing sand usage and providing a use for waste plastic, the research conducted studied the impact of adding varying percentages of HDPE plastic by mass into concrete blocks…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The current plastics we use take around 500 years to degrade and release harmful chemicals into our environment. Therefore, a solution to this epidemic must be found. Drawing from a variety…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
As the human population grows, more and more waste is created, most of which is non-recyclable and non-biodegradable. Styrofoam, a derivative form of the plastic polystyrene, is one such exa…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Opioid abuse is a significant public health problem. Despite over 130 overdose deaths a day and two million Americans with some form of opioid addiction, there are still very few predictive…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Global warming has had a worldwide impact with methane gas being a significant contributor. According to calculations by the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) based on a 2018 Intergovernmenta…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The main objective of this applied science project is to demonstrate the viability of a novel, low-cost methanotrophic biotrickling filter with the ability to co-metabolise methane as well a…