Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal of our research was to develop a sustainable and economically viable device for water purification. Our innovative methodology integrates filtration with an enhance…
Environmental Engineering
This science fair project worked to develop a solution to the problem of infeasible and inaccurate deployable pH sensors not suited for the marine environment reduce the quantity of accurate…
Environmental Engineering
With 780 million people without access to a potable water source, the development of a simple, self-powered, and point-of-use water system is desirable to remove waterborne bacteria, and che…
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered water recovery systems, for desalination of ocean or brackish water, minimize climate change but are prohibiti…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered desalination systems are viable but the investment is too costly for developing countries or…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The project consists in the elaboration of a measurer of radon gas through the conditioning of a Geiger-Müller counter, with the purpose of making a portable, less expensive and more precise…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The main issue associated with solar power is its high costs, caused by the expensive tracking systems required for solar energy systems to remain efficient. Furthermore, cu…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Plastics are responsible for several damages to the environment. They, annually, cause more than one million birds’ deaths and other 100 thousand marine mammals’ deaths. On the other hand, p…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to develop a simple low cost technique to reduce evaporation loss of water by blocking with a disc or hemispherical cover. Evaporation loss is e…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science fair project was to determine whether recycled or non recycled paper would biodegrade faster and how moisture will affect the process. Methods/Ma…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The objective of this research was to determine if Eastern Oysters and Hard Shell Clams filtration ability to naturally filter and improve the overall water quality would be affected if the…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The Bio-Photovoltaic Fuel Cell (BPFC) is a promising new technology that generates clean electrochemical energy using the photosynthetic activity of organisms. However, existing BPFCs use ex…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals More and more people are vermicomposting rather than just composting because vermicomposting creates more fertile soil and is a significantly faster process. The goal of my…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to see if YO12N can be used in reducing impacts from eutrophication.Eutrophication is the process by which a body of water becomes rich in diss…
Environmental Engineering
Purpose Claus Process is renowned for treating hydrogen sulfide, a toxic substance that is very dangerous to human causing bronchial, heart diseases, or even death when exposed to a high con…
Environmental Engineering
First Award
Objectives/Goals Heavy metal pollution is a pressing global environmental threat and public health concern, responsible for several hundred thousand deaths annually. However, current methods…
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal pollution is a pressing global environmental threat and public health concern. In this study, sustainable nanofiber coagulants were synthesized to remove heavy metals lead, cadmi…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Fertilizers containing nitrogen continue to be an integral aspect of the farming economy in the Midwest. Excess run-off of nitrates has become an environmental hazard. When the growth of alg…
Environmental Engineering
Thousands of wells are drilled in shale reservoirs annually. The most common type of fluid used to drill horizontal wells in shale reservoirs is oil-based mud, using diesel and other compone…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals With 1.2 to 1.3 billion McDonald's Happy Meals being sold worldwide, a Happy Meal produces a lot of material waste. My objective is to reduce at least one-third of the mater…
Environmental Engineering
This research began over four years ago. During the summer of 2012 numerous bare patches were noticed in the hills in the Greybull area that were mined before reclamation was mandatory. The…
Environmental Engineering
The inhalable particulate matter (PM10) is one of the major atmospheric pollutants, which is harmful to human health because it can cause several respiratory diseases. In Brazil, the state o…
Environmental Engineering
In many developing countries, average citizens do not have access to clean drinking water. By building types of cheap, easily built filters, these citizens may have access to water that is l…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Industrialization and urban stressors have accelerated the increasing levels of the most dangerous contaminants in our water bodies, heavy metals, because of their non-biodegradability, thei…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find out which material, out of 3, collected the most amount of water tested by our interpretation of fog catchers. Methods/Materials 6 Wood Planks(45 c…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project sought to answer the question of whether or not plastic pollution could be reduced by integrating polystyrene into bricks while maintaining structural stability…
Environmental Engineering
Our project is about used the Garbages and sewages water to generate electric and methane gas and treatment the sewages water to use in watering the plant and produce fertilizers to the plan…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if raising the ambient temperature without any additional energy sources will increase the output of purified water in a solar po…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Growing concerns about eutrophication induced by elevated phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) levels in water and wastewater demand innovative water quality treatment technologies. My previous r…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I wanted to create an inexpensive air filtration system that cleaned particles from smog-filled air. Methods/Materials Peat moss, ductwork, powdered titanium dioxide, fan, c…