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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…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Estuarine ecosystems such as Washington's Puget Sound are especially vulnerable to the impacts of anthropogenic pollution. Increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and nitrate—termed acidi…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), such as bisphenol A (BPA), are a wide group of natural and synthetic compounds that influence or inhibit the natural functions of the endocrine system.…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This project resulted from an observation that conventional plastics are a significant cause for pollution in our environment and aims to develop a compostable, environmentally friendly poly…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Facing a global challenge of freshwater scarcity, this project presents a novel approach thus a portable, low-temperature solar thermal desalination system. Despite covering over 71% of the…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Recognizing CO2’s pivotal role in climate change, and soil carbon as the major active pool of terrestrial carbon, Carboflux introduces a novel method to quantify soil carbon flux, which meas…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Both the disposal of rejected brine and CO2 emission are the most significant challenges associated with the desalination process. Herein, we present an integrated approach that utilizes a r…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Many in my grandfather's village are engaged in manual salt-farming, spending long hours by the sea under the blazing sun with little access to potable water. I researched suitable materials…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The presence of heavy metals in wastewater poses significant threats to human health and the environment, necessitating the development of effective treatment methods. This study focuses on…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Cement production contributes approximately 8% to global CO2 emissions. Researchers are exploring alternatives such as alkaline-activated cement (AACs), that utilize industrial by-products l…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Environmental pollution, which is one of the main causes of global warming, may have variations within itself; however, water, which is at the point of all cycles in nature, a blanket coveri…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Catastrophic oil spills inflict severe harm on marine ecosystems. Conventional cleanup approaches are often inefficient, some resulting in further pollution. In response, I devised a highly…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The production of nitrogen fertilizers has made it possible to grow enough crops to keep up with the growing population. This excessive input of nitrogen fertilizers on crops is causing leac…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this study was to evaluate algae and seagrass as potential alternatives to wood in paper production, considering its high cellulose content. This topic was chosen as an altern…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The average US household produces 500 pounds of plastic annually, and most of it is not recycled. Only 18% of plastic waste is recycled globally, and without viable business models for recyc…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
We provide a cutting-edge technological solution that combines exceptional performance, accessibility for all users, and environmental responsibility. It's a 3D printer that prints using rec…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The August 2023 Maui fires destroyed historic Lahaina town, causing toxic ash to become mobilized into the soil, groundwater, and ocean. This study evaluated the benefits of incorporating na…