Browse 24 real Environmental Engineering projects from AJAS, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
AJAS · 2026
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Biochar has been shown to effectively adsorb glyphosate, a widely used herbicide frequently detected in aquatic environments. This study aimed to optimize the glyphosate adsorption capabilit…
AJAS · 2026
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N′-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) is an antioxidant and antiozonant widely used in all US Tire Manufacturers Association tires to prevent degradation. When exposed to…
AJAS · 2025
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
January 10, 2024 A Natural Cost-Effective Solution to Pharmaceutical Contamination in Drinking Water A. Gunasekaran, D. Ellsworth High Technology High School, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincro…
AJAS · 2025
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
UNESCO published at the UN 2023 Water Conference that 46% of the world lacks access to safely managed water sanitation, emphasizing a global need for clean water. Pesticide usage and imprope…
AJAS · 2024
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
An increase in the prevalence of waterborne bacterial diseases has remained evident with examples such as Legionella contamination of Houston Ben Taub Hospital’s water supply and Burkholderi…
AJAS · 2024
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Plastics pose a large threat to aquatic wildlife as they do not break down and can leach toxins that are harmful to animals. Millions of animals die every year from plastic waste in aquatic…
AJAS · 2024
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
As humans gain an increasing reliance on environmentally harmful devices such as cars and factories, organisms in the ocean experience life-altering adversity. To decrease the significance o…
AJAS · 2020
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
One of the most dangerous components of an oil spill is the emulsion that forms between the spilled oil and surrounding seawater. This submerged emulsion can last for many years and is diffi…
AJAS · 2020
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
In this day and age where data has become our most valuable asset, it is appropriate for us to apply our ever-evolving data analysis tools and artificial intelligence algorithms to reduce th…
AJAS · 2020
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
41 million people in the U.S. are exposed to drug contaminated water every day. In fact, traceable amounts of pharmaceuticals have been found in over 80 percent of water samples taken from v…
AJAS · 2020
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Cavitation is the nucleation and rapid implosion of vapor bubbles in a liquid when the liquid is subject to pressures below vapor pressure. The collapse of these bubbles is a powerful physic…
AJAS · 2020
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Serenity Haynes Central Lee High School 2063 Highway 218 Donnellson, Iowa Using Bacteria and Protozoa as Bioremediation Method to Clean up Organic Pollutants The purpose of this project was…
AJAS · 2019
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Every year sees 6.5 million lives lost to air pollution (IEA); 1.3 billion tons of trash are produced yearly, a figure expected to reach 4 billion by 2100 (World Bank). Thus, the purpose of…
AJAS · 2019
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure, especially to extract oil or gas. When water is shot into these f…
AJAS · 2019
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Microalgal photobioreactors are among the most effective systems for capturing atmospheric CO2. Their capacity to generate massive amounts of hydrocarbon in biomass could be exploited not on…
AJAS · 2019
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Heavy metal contamination in the environment, specifically in aquatic systems, has been a top concern for nearly 100 years. This heavy metal contamination is found at nearly every one of the…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Globally, 1.3 billion tons of waste are generated per year, with production set to double by 2025. Such a large influx of refuse is costly, inefficient, and poses an environmental and public…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Responses to oil spills include; leaving spills undisturbed, removing with skimmers/ sorbents, breaking-up spills with dispersants or introducing biological agents to enhance oil degradation…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
It is predicted that by the year 2050, drug resistant bacteria will cause the deaths of 10 million lives a year, and the loss of over 100 trillion dollars in the worlds GDP. With this statis…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
In the world today only .007% of the water is potable leaving 780 million people around the world without clean water. Therefore, the purpose of the project was to develop a water filtration…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Impoverished countries are being negatively affected by the harmful contents of exported waste, specifically electronic waste, from wealthy countries. Printed circuit boards are a major cont…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Droughts in the U.S alone have cost the economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. To conserve water, stringent water restrictions are put in place, but these restrictions prevent pl…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Oil spills are a pressing issue and cleanup methods often further harm the environment. Two eco-friendly methods of oil spill collection are mycoremediation and phytoremediation, which break…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Abstract Category: Earth and Environmental Engineering Purpose: The purpose of this project is to 1) examine the leaching of heavy metals from fly ash concrete by testing water samples for m…