Browse 155 real Environmental Engineering projects entered in 2018, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to design something that could help different parts of the world obtain clean water. Our problem that we were addressing was the lack of clean, drinkable water…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In order to prevent wildfires, this project develops a mathematical model to predict the ignition of a wildfire based on fire indicator factors including relative humidity,…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Clean air is vital for a healthy body and a healthy mind. We spend much of our time indoors breathing poorly ventilated/polluted air. My goal was to create an intelligent ve…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Radon is a radioactive gas that emerges from Earth’s surface. A product of the radioactive decay of Uranium, radon and its daughters present a serious health hazard that is often neglected.…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In spite of many benefits that plastics offer, negative impact has become a global problem that is affecting us economically and environmentally. Only 25% of plastic is recy…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Air pollution levels in Medellin, the second largest city of Colombia, is a serious problem of public health. During last year, the city experienced the highest levels of pollution ever reco…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Given the considerable threats pollution outbreaks pose to reservoir freshwater supply, we aim to develop a deep water monitoring robot that can conduct constant and comprehensive data colle…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The concrete industry creates over 86.7 million metric tons of concrete every year, and unfortunately emits over 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide as well. In order to minimi…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to provide clean drinking water to people in third world countries. Methods/Materials 2 liter plastic bottles, 1 liter plastic bottle, vario…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Contamination in water poses a serious and mostly undetected threat. It is necessary for people to have an economical option to test the water they drink in their own homes. The goal of this…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
This research has created an innovative gas-separation membrane by combining inorganic membranes with polymeric membranes. A highly selective polymer (polybenzimidazole) and a highly permeab…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Arsenic, “king of poisons,” threatens public health on an unprecedented scale with over 140 million people in 50 countries drinking water contaminated with arsenic at levels above the EPA/WH…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of my experiment was to determine if seeding Pseudomonas putida (applying a bacterial aerosol treatment to the surface of the sheen) will reduce the area of oil sheen on hydrocar…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine how the degradation of 1,4-dioxane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans (ATCC? 55486) was affected by the presence of cis-DCE as it was degraded by…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Our team designed a generator using environmental-friendly energy by using materials that are easily available around. Developing countries have very low electricity generation systems and v…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of the research work is to eliminate toxic metals As and Pb from the Tacna water supply using vegetable residues for the Biosorption process. The biomass used is composed of oliv…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Human beings are exposed to mercury every day, either through their domestic or work environment. In 2017, a study was developed which assessed mercury contamination in a group of students,…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the most effective soil erosion control products under wind erosion simulations and also subsequently how effective these c…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create a device that uses cheap and readily available materials to extract moisture from the atmosphere and produce clean water without f…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The object of this study is to determine if potable water was not available could you use materials in a common backyard to filter bacteriological and suspended contaminates…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The United States is the leading producing country of corn. The European Corn Borer, Ostrinia nubilalis, are pests of grains, particularly corn. They are North Dakota’s number one corn pest…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create or find the most effective biodegradable mesh out of burlap, cotton, linen and cotton/rayon to replace the nylon or polypropylene…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Biodiesel has attracted considerable attention during the past decade as a renewable, biodegradable, and nontoxic fuel. In general, biodiesel is obtained from oils and animal fat; however, h…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To determine the highest amount of biogas generated from three waste food sources (mashed banana, chicken skin, potato peels) upon decomposition. Methods/Materials Fresh cow…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to implement the systems that Cathedral Termites have created to keep their mounds at a consistent temperature into sustainable housing. Metho…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The Brazilian textile industry has been a highlight of the global economy. However, this industry generates great quantities of effluents that present high concentrations of dyes and chemica…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Fertilization of food crops is necessary to improve yields within the short growing season of the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Does nutrient management assist in the stability of pond e…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Turbidity is an underestimated issue when analyzing water quality. Turbidity, the amount of sedimentation in water, is calculated in the the units of NTU(Nephelometric Turbidity Units) . Tur…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to find out whether used coffee grounds can absorb heavy metals from lead contaminated water. Methods/Materials Materials: ~168.816* millilite…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is the result of an increment of nutrients in bodies of water. This produces an explosive growth of natural organic matter (NOM). As a result, the concentration of oxygen dimi…