38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
In developing countries, people walk long distances carrying heavy water drums. However, carried water is contaminated by bacteria, organic material, heavy metal and etc. The goal of this pr…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Environmental dust causes multiple problems, including negative effects on human health, impairment of machinery operation, and production of sensitive electronic components. Multiple types…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Adsorption of bivalent heavy metal ions from polluted water was studied using dried powdered banana peels and banana peel pyrolyzed at 500°C and 600°C. The results were compared with adsorpt…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
A number of epidemiological studies and animal experiments have shown that individuals with preexisting diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes melli…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Oil slicks, resulting from oil spills, are often sprayed with chemical dispersants. Ideally, the sub-millimeter scale dispersant droplets will gently land on the oil slick and gradually mix…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Currently, the use of transportation is blooming in every nation, which leads to the rise of waste lubricant emission. Waste lubricant not only does harm to human’s health but also causes en…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Indoor air quality has been an increasing concern due to abundant pollutant emission sources. We investigated on the removal of one of the most toxic and abundant air pollutants – carbonyl c…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals As of 2008, there were 40,000 sites in the US that contained contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PCBs are a man-made organic chemical that are found every…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I know from my previous science experiment in third grade that earthworms can mix soil and sand together. My purpose for my experiment this year is to find out if earthworms…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The main objective of this experiment was to determine whether temperature affects the rate of decay of an alpha particle resulting in radioactivity. During the research it was learned that…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Wind turbines are clean alternative energy sources that are increasing in popularity. However, landowners and environmentalists have expressed concerns in regard to noise pollution and negat…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Cigarette smoke promotes renal fibrosis but the direct effects of acrolein (acrylic aldehyde), a constituent of cigarette smoke on renal fibrosis had not been determined. Heat shock protein…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The intent of this experiment was to discover which method of irrigating plants grew the plants in the most efficient manner. I tried a new irrigation system that consisted of injecting the…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
a) purpose of the experiment Air pollution is threatening to our health so we are going to invent a machine to kill bacteria and clean the air. b) procedures used First, some information was…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to reduce the emissions from an engine using activated carbon (AC) as a supplemental filter while a catalytic converter is warming up. This experiment measure…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Cimex lectularius, commonly known as the bed bug, presents a resurgent public health hazard characterized by its hosts’ allergic reactions, secondary skin infections, and psychological distr…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This project was inspired by recent studies expressing a substantial need to increase food supplies. To accommodate the expected human population growth, developing more efficient protein so…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The growth of population has created problems like increase of fCO2, food shortage and contamination to our water resources. Would it be possible to create a self-sustaining small portable 7…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Although there are some stove types in our life like gas stove and wood stove, all of these types can be harmful for humans and our environment. For example, the gas stove could burn the are…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Septic systems and other small-scale waste-water processing systems do little to remove NH4+, NO3- and inorganic phosphorus from waste-water. Emission of the effluent from these systems can…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Neutralization of hydrocarbon contamination of soils by natural microbial populations is one of the primary mechanisms. Its intensity and direction to a large extent depends upon the quality…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Production of bio-ethanol from rice straw has some limitations, as it can also be used for important cattle feed. Ideally, research is needed to develop a protocol that can produce bio-ethan…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this investigation was to learn which filtration material: marsh plants, oyster mushroom spores, ceramic balls, charcoal, or gravel and drainage rocks, purifi…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals California has been through many severe droughts such as the recent drought of 1987-1992, where Santa Barbara turned to desalination, installing a temporary emergency desali…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Near domestic and commercial agricultural settings, ammonia runoff is a threat to freshwater ecosystems. Research by scientist Milena Beniolo found that banana peels effectively absorbed pos…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals There have been disastrous gasoline spills throughout history. In addition, the runoff from the rain carries gasoline into the surrounding soil causing even greater damage.…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This project titled, Help me! I don’t take it anymore: Together we will succeed, is intended to answer the following problem: How to reduce the solid waste generated by the residents of Chac…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to see if sod can reduce the amount of nitrate and phosphate runoff from fertilizer application. This is a follow-up study of last year#s pro…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Purpose of the Experiment As the demand for oil products increases so does its maritime transportation and thus enhance the risk for an oil spill to occur. Oil Spills can cause major environ…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Water use has been growing more than twice the population rate in the last century. Considering the sources of seawater account for as high as 97% of all water on the Earth, seawater desalin…