Browse 101 real Environmental Engineering projects entered in 2023, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The presence of petroleum-based synthetic polymers in the environment leads to soil and water pollution, threatens the ecosystem and leads to the destruction of fauna. The negative effects o…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Climate and agriculture are intricately interwoven, as seasonal change produces a wide diversity of crops. Climate change has ramifications for agricultural health, yield, water, and soil. C…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Introduction: Climate change, population growth and poor water conservation continue to worsen water shortages in the world. Engineering Goal: To develop a low cost, water-on-demand, soil mo…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Developing sustainable technologies to harness solar energy for wastewater treatment and hydrogen fuel production is crucial for addressing global energy and environmental challenges. In thi…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
Wildfires are increasingly impacting the environment and human health. Among the top 20 California wildfires, those in 2020-2021 burned more acres than the last century combined. Lack of an…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The Brazilian semiarid region has 27 million inhabitants who depend on rainwater for subsistence activities such as agriculture and livestock. With average rainfall of 800 mm annually and li…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
There has been a rise in water pollution with nitrates over the past few years. Currently, there is no cost-effective option for the detection or filtration of nitrates in water, since the c…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
HABs have plagued waterways causing significant losses to Florida's economy. Currently, algal bloom data collection is reactionary and inadequate, following regional fish kills. Algal mitiga…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays, the world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated, or leaking into the environment. Only 9% were success…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations exceeding critical thresholds, the Earth’s climate and ecosystems face irreversible damage. To date, the power sector is responsible for 41% of…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Wildfires cause significant damage, resulting in over 33,000 fatalities and destruction of more than 10.1 million acres annually. 40% of wildfire damage occurs in California. Unfortunately,…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Wildfires affect the lives of many California residents, costing counties billions of dollars in damages and impacting the health of those in the near proximity due to prolonged smoke inhala…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Automated Recyclable Management (ARM) is a synthesis object detection network and affordable hardware prototype designed to automate the process of recyclable waste classification. By employ…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Due to humans' heavy, global dependence on petroleum as an energy source and material, oil extraction and processing efforts happen in many environments and involve mass transportation acros…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Uzuri Production is a project with the aim of making BIOCHAR an environmentally friendly product from waste with the aim of making a highly efficient and productive material that will in the…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
In August 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through its Clean Truck Plan, proposed new standards to promote clean air and reduce pollution from heavy-duty vehicles starting in…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Finding out that plastic polybag is one of the materials that take a very long time to degrade was one of the issues that prompted us to come up with this idea. As a result, we used durian a…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, gas-powered lawnmowers make up five percent of total air pollution in the United States. In this project, a homemade bubble column reacto…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if carbon dioxide (CO2) from combustion emissions could be effectively removed using post-combustion water absorption. Combustions sources acr…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The oceans absorb nearly a third of airborne CO2 emissions, while 1.3 million gallons of crude oil are spilled into oceans every year. Both issues continue to detrimentally affect marine bio…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
The objective of our project is to minimize marine pollution by creating a robot that can recognize and collect aluminum cans on a beach, before they reach the ocean. Aluminum is toxic to aq…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives: According to the CDC, nearly 40 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes, and 3.08 million middle/high school students use at least one tobacco product. Each year, nearly half a mill…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
This research is about decomposing artificial materials with oyster mushrooms. The author chose this topic as there is a huge amount of plastic on earth that could be broken down. The subjec…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Through increasing usage of toxic substances in anthropogenic activities, contamination in the natural environment has become a major problem. To combat this increasing threat, native Hawaii…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
During many industrial fires, the chemicals released from the incineration of materials inside the building and ones commonly used by firefighters to extinguish the fire are often picked up…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Water is one of the most essential facets of human life, yet billions of people worldwide, especially in remote areas, do not have access to safe drinking water. Harmful microorganisms in co…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
With rapidly increasing global temperatures, fires have increased dramatically in both magnitude and number. Such fires can prove disastrous to the general population; in California, for exa…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
From 2005 to 2050, crop demands will increase by 100% to 110% and 50% of land will not be suitable for agriculture (Monsees, 2019). To address this issue of land depletion, we engineered a c…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
40% of the world’s population experiences water scarcity, this figure will only grow with climate change. Wells give many people access to water, but there are an increasing number of circum…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The Four-Corners region of the Desert Southwest is where much of the Diné (Navajo) population lives remotely, in traditional Hoghans. These Hoghans neither have running water nor electricity…