EPA Announces Student Contest Winners
EPA awarded six student groups last night as part of the People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition to produce future environmentally-friendly and profitable technologies.
The projects ranged from producing wastewater to turning vegetable oil waste into biofuel. Each winner received up to $75,000 for development funding.
All this year’s winners:
- Drexel University—Production of Biodiesel from High Free-Fatty-Acid Oils
- Loyola University of Chicago—Innovative Biodiesel Production
- University of California-Berkeley—Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation
- University of California-Davis—Production of Natural Plastics in Wastewater Treatment
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Sustainable Water Development Program
- University of Iowa—Point-of-Use Electrolytic Chlorine Generator for Drinking Water Disinfection
To find more student contests, visit Earth 911’s student section.


wastewater treatment
posted on April 26th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
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