Browse 21 real Energy and Transport projects entered in 2019, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
When a bicycle is connected to the back of a car with a bike rack, the bicycle’s wheels spin while the car is in motion due to the wind coming over and around the car. This accessible mechan…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives The objective of this project is determine the visual effect when adding different levels of methoxide solution on algae oil to create a biodiesel . Methods Lye, Rubbing alcohol,…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Our project is based on the California landfill regulations. To do this we used biodegradable items in a sealed system to allow anaerobic bacteria to turn trash into CH4 or methan…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives As of today, the average efficiency of household solar panels is around 20%, which means only around 20% of solar energy is converted into household electricity. Our objective is…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this experiment was to see if using different fruits to make dye-sensitized solar cells affected the amount of voltage the solar cells produced. Methods A Nanocry…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives As per the 2010 Census, there are more than 55 million people in the United States that are disabled. Out of which 3.6 million people use a wheelchair to assist with mobility.One…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this project is to see which types of biomass produce the most biogas. Methods The materials used for this project include cow manure mixed with banana peels, cow…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives In our society, there are still those who don t have access to electricity and light. I saw a need for a device that would be able to provide light and energy to those who needed…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives The purpose of this study was to find which less conventional, yet prevalent, organic waste fuels would produce the most electricity in a standard two chamber microbial fuel cell.…
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
The goal of this research was to improve the energy produced by a flexible solar cell. A focus was placed on using the ability of the flexible solar cell to conform to surfaces to see if the…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives We learned from research that wind turbines have different blade types and our objective was to determine the type of wind turbine that produces the most energy: 2-blade, or 3-bla…
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
In this integrative research, two tunable plasmonic nanostructures were used to significantly increase the short circuit current output (Jsc), total current produced (A), maximum optical gen…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this project is the determine how different environmental factors affect the productivity of solar cells. Methods 4 Solar Panels, water, ash, dirt samples, infrar…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives To develop higher efficiency of Archimedes Wind Turbines (AWT) by applying the logarithmic spiral concept for small-scale wind turbines below 30m. Methods AWT curvatures were remi…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Measure the electrical power output of a wind-driven generator at various temperatures. Compare the power output of the generator at the same windspeed for various temperatures. M…
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Student name: Deepti Nandakumar School: IB World School Sponsor: Ms Julie Baker Research Category: Engineering Research Project Title: Transolar Tower – A novel method of generating and tran…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this project was to determine if the components of urine could be utilized by bacteria to aid in the production of electricity in a microbial fuel cell. Methods I…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this project was to observe if phosphorescence can increase the amount of energy we receive from solar panels. Methods In this project, we used a polycrystalline…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives The purpose is to measure the effects of a phase change material (PCM) unit on efficiency of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) waste heat recovery system and determine the appropri…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The goal of this project is to determine what mechanisms work best for capturing energy from certain wave shapes, sizes, and speeds. This is important because wave energy could be…
CSEF · 2019
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Our goal was to create a self-sustaining energy source that relied on natural occurrences. We decided to make a wave powered generator, after researching several alternative energ…