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The project focuses on the deadly dual combo of environmental problems that face us today, namely Air and Water Pollution. One of the most exciting topics of research in the world today is that of carbon nanotubes and their potential applications in various fields. Some researchers want to develop electronic circuits based on carbon nanotubes while others are considering their remarkable structural properties to be used in construction as well as space shuttles. I have concentrated on nanotube filters and developed some concept products and techniques that have the potential to solve the aforementioned long-standing environmental problems.

Nanotubes have been recently discovered and pose exciting prospects with applications in various fields. For my project, I have limited their use to filters for air and water. Freestanding monolithic uniform macroscopic hollow cylinders having radially aligned carbon nanotube walls, with lengths up to several centimetres are appropriate for nanotube filters. These filters can be cleaned for repeated filtration through ultrasonication and autoclaving. The exceptional thermal and mechanical stability of nanotubes, and the high surface area, ease and cost-effective fabrication of the nanotube membranes make them the most feasible and viable option.

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The Mangrove ecosystem traps and cycles various organic materials, chemical elements, and important nutrients. Dissolved substances are used by plankton, bacteria, and fungi. This material, in nature, is deposited over the seabed. Here bacteria densities are almost as high as those in the mangrove mud and they do much the same job, breaking down the litter to be consumed by bottom-living fauna.

This project involved the usage of mangrove mud collected from Singapore Sungei Mandai and Sungei Buloh to make an internal filtration water system to filter off the water collected from Singapore and Kallang River. Instead of using chemical methods to clean and filter Singapore waters, an alternative suggestion of using environmental friendly mangrove mud is possible.

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Most of the scoreboard system available in the market is meant for a specific game usage and the design are rather bulky to support the weight, and usually powered by electricity where it required long cable and socket. When come to storage, it tends to occupy space.

The objective of this project is to develop a portable green energy messenger cum scoreboard system powered by renewable energy (solar) that saves the earth.

In this project, the team had design and developed a system that foldable by mean of hinges mechanism to make it compact and for easy storage.

The source of supply is powered by renewable energy which environmental friendly, reduce the dependent of fossil fuel. A solar panel is used to charge up the battery for the consumption of load comprises messenger and scoreboard.

The design is also unique whereby it incorporates both the messenger application and a scoreboard usage.

The system can be used either for indoor or outdoor games, versatile enough to perform as messenger display, scoreboard in games, or even as a testimonial of renewable energy product that minimise the rely on fossil fuel.

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The objective of our project “Waste Water No More” is to save precious water during showering by installing a water saving device automatically redirects cold water to a temporary storage tank when water is cold and to the showering hose when water is warm enough for showering. The device must be low cost, simple to use and no maintenace is required. It must be an DIY device.

According to our survey, almost 100% of the participants surveyed indicated that they are having warm water heating system in their homes. An estimated amount of water wasted during each showering in HDB household is 1.5 litre of water.

With the installation of our project, all cold water when first turns on before showering would be channel to a temporary storage tank, and water is warm enough, the device will switch back to showering hose for showering. Water stored in the temporary storage tank could be used for toilet flushing, or cloth washing.

Hence, with our add-on device, much precious water would be saved.

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Youths today might be aware of the whole debacle on climate change. Yet, few take action of any kind, if at all. Indeed, the fundamental problem at hand is that people do not delve deeper beyond the vague and often times confusing expanse of information on this pertinent issue. The public is aware of things at a very basic surface level, but have never had the opportunity and time to go deeper beyond the shallow and general context of the emerging global crisis.

Built around this concept, our project entitled Planet In Peril seeks to raise awareness of this issue through a campaign consisting of an outreach programme and a virtual component. These aim to educate our youths of today as well as our various events to raise awareness of the issue.

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Many Banners are ordered, custom made and hung up for display for a period of time. They are then taken down and thrown into the rubbish bins. This banners are expensive to make and because of their PVC material they are not easy to decompose and when they are burnt, they will produce toxic fumes that will pollute our atmosphere. Therefore, PVC Banners is a waste that is difficult to dispose off. So if we recycle all the discarded Banners, measure and cut them to size, sew them up and turn them into a sliding back rest for their clining beach chair. These colourful reclining beach chairs will look unique and brighten up the beach and add some colours to our coast lines when families gather there for picnics, swimming and sea-sports or just laze around for the weekend.

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The present level of detecting water pipe leakage technology could come as a surprise that there are just a few conventionally available means. In particular, no specialised leakage detection in the market can meet the needs of various types of pipes under different environment. Our project seeks to add another quicker way of early water leakage detection by providing alternative to industries and individuals needs.

Our project is low cost device to detect slow water leakage rate resulted from underground pipes. A thin copper wire (1mm diameter) is tied close to the surface along the underside of the metal pipes. Initially, any early surface leakage or damage along the pipe if lay horizontally will cause significant volume water to accumulate at its lower belly. Over the days, the accumulated water becomes acidic and starts to corrode the copper wire and finally breaks the wire. The wire carries a low voltage and one physically broken, it will trigger and send a SMS message to the mobile phone.