低温等离子体技术处理汽车尾气的研究

根据对现有的尾气处理技术的分析,介绍了一种尾气处理的新技术：介质阻挡放电低温等离子体技术。对低温等离子体技术的原理和基本结构进行了探讨,并分别就低温等离子体技术与多种不同的催化净化技术结合进行了具体研究。研究表明,低温等离子体净化技术与现有的催化净化技术结合,可以克服现有催化净化技术的不足,有效提高发动机尾气颗粒物、碳氢化合物和氮氧化物的净化效率,且具有广泛的应用前景。     

人工湿地生态系统污水净化研究新进展

人工湿地作为近20年来发展起来的一种传统的污水处理技术是一种廉价的替代方案，已越来越受到各国的普遍重视。在本文中，笔者详细介绍了人工湿地的定义、分类、基本构造类型与工艺流程及其在污水净化中的应用领域和应用前景。同时还详细论述了人工湿地的污水净化机理，并对今后研究的方向进行了展望，可为人工湿地污水净化技术的应用研究提供参考。     

人工湿地净化河道水质的研究进展

人工湿地是近年来国内外应用较多、发展较快的一种污水处理技术,本文从国内外人工湿地净化河水的技术应用出发,列举了人工湿地处理河水污染的效果和优势,并对湿地净化河水效率影响较大的湿地植物、填料、气候条件以及湿地构造4个因素进行了比较、分析和总结,最后对人工湿地净化河道水质进行了展望。     

低温等离子体技术净化室内VOCs的研究进展

低温等离子体技术作为一种新型室内净化技术,能够有效降解室内挥发性有机化合物（VOCs）。本文首先简要介绍了室内VOCs的主要来源和对人体的危害,以及传统治理技术的不足,详细分析了低温等离子体净化VOCs的优势和机理,并对低温等离子净化VOCs存在的问题以及研究现状做了引证阐述,最后提出了有待解决的难题。     

旋转喷雾半干法烟气净化技术研究进展

sox是垃圾焚烧发电的主要大气污染物之一。要控制s02的排放量,就必须采取有效的烟气净化技术,如干法烟气净化技术、旋转喷雾半干法、流化床半干法和石灰石一石膏湿法烟气净化技术等。旋转喷雾半干法是有效的烟气净化技术之一,雾化器作为旋转喷雾半千法的关键设备,其雾化效果直接影响到吸收剂的利用率及硫化物的去除率。喷雾液滴粒径大小是衡量雾化器雾化效果的重要指标,是影响尾气中硫化物脱除效果的关键因素。     

土壤中二噁英类测定的前处理技术分析

为了探究土壤中二噁英类测定的关键前处理技术,确保土壤测定结果能真实反映二噁英类污染水平,选取一批次土壤样品,通过对样品前处理过程是否进行盐酸发泡处理、索氏提取和ASE提取两种不同的样品提取方式、不同的多层复合硅胶柱净化次数、不同的活性碳柱净化次数等进行比较。研究结果表明盐酸发泡处理后的结果更接近土壤实际值。第一步净化操作中C1、C2、C3、C4样品的毒性当量浓度分别是8.4、1.8、2.1、1.6 ngTEQ/kg,说明在遇到复杂基体样品时,需要进行两次硅胶柱净化处理,才能达到更好的去除干扰物的目的。第二步活性碳柱净化步骤中,使用一次净化即可达到较为满意的结果。研究结果为土壤中二噁英类测定的关键前处理过程提供了数据支持,为深入打好土壤中持久性有机污染防治攻坚提供了技术支撑。     

垃圾填埋气中微量挥发性有机物的净化技术

垃圾填埋气中存在的多种微量挥发性有机物(VOCS),既造成二次污染,影响了人类健康;又对填埋气的回收利用产生了不利影响。本文综述了几种VOCS常规净化技术的基本原理、优势及限制,介绍了几种新兴技术,并预期有效的联合工艺是净化填埋气中微量VOCs的研究方向。     

俄罗斯埃科托尔公司的集成模块式污水净化处理综合系统设备

集成模块式污水净化技术装置 ,是在军事工业的工艺基础上研制而成的 ,最初用于化学武器的净化回收。这套技术生产系统可以对含有任何多种成分 ,包括剧毒污染物的工业污水 ,生活污水和自然污水进行完全净化和回收 ,使其达到液相和固相回收利用的规定质量标准。该技术设备由埃科托尔环保工程有限公司从俄罗斯军工企业提炼后生产成模块式结构的集成技术综合装置 ,有固定式和移动式两种 ,可装配成任何净化处理规模 ,净化处理任何水源的污水。该公司具备一定的安装能力 ,可承接以下项目的施工 :１ 径流污水净化 :-市政（经济 -生活）污水-工业污…     

沉淀浮选法处理矿山含重金属废水技术初探

本文介绍了一种新的废水处理技术－沉淀浮选法处理矿山含重金属废水的性能，并对其净化机理作了探讨，还将其与传统的化学沉淀净化法作了比较，为矿山废水的治理及综合利用指出了一条切实可行的新途径。     

垃圾焚烧发电厂渗滤液回喷新工艺的应用

介绍了垃圾焚烧发电厂渗滤液的处理和原回喷技术的应用现状,并结合烟气脱酸净化工艺提出一种回喷新技术。详细描述了回喷新工艺的流程和相关技术,并结合工程实际分析了相关技术和经济指标。     

水解与接触氧化工艺处理牛仔漂洗废水

对800m^3／d的牛仔漂洗废水采用絮凝沉淀＋水解酸化与接触氧化工艺进行处理,通过6个月的调试与运行,挂膜好,处理效果稳定,CODCr去除率在89％以上。色度和CODCr有大幅度降低,一般情况下能保证出水水质达标。     

水泥工业清洁生产与环境保护初探

水泥工业是个能耗高、污染物排放量大的重污染行业,其对环境的污染主要是粉尘污染。在水泥厂实施清洁生产的潜力很大,不仅可以降低能耗、物耗,减少污染物的排放,同时,由于加强了管理,有助于提高生产效率,提高产品质量,降低生产成本,增强市场竞争力,可产生明显的经济、环境和社会效益     

Bovine TB,Badger Culling and Applied Ethics: Utilitarianism,Animal Welfare and Rights

Applying competing ethical theories to the issue of bovine TB and badger culling can throw light on the validity of the policy options. Utilitarianism is, superficially at least, an attractive option. However, the aggregative principle is problematic and this is well illustrated in the case of bovine TB and badger culling. Such is the variety and strength of interests to be considered that it is not at all clear which course of action will maximise utility. In addition, it may be that the full range of consequences can never be known with any degree of accuracy. An alternative option is to revert to an animal welfare ethic. This has the effect of cutting down the moral complexities involved in a discussion of bovine TB and badger culling, since, providing it is done humanely, killing badgers is not an ethical issue, and even the infliction of suffering on them is permissible providing it serves a significant human benefit. The animal welfare ethic, however, is normatively inadequate because it exaggerates the ethical importance of personhood. Because of this, it allows us to justify killing badgers, and might even justify the infliction of considerable suffering if by so doing there is a good chance that economic benefits will accrue. As a result, a deontological position, where animals are accorded the protection of rights, seems a much more promising alternative to utilitarianism. The adoption of any variety of animal rights would render badger culling morally illegitimate.     

Mobilising social energy against environmental challenge: understanding the groundwater recharge movement in western India

This paper explores a large-scale and growing popular movement to augment groundwater recharge in the Saurashtra region of western India, an area that has been facing acute water scarcity and other associated problems. As a social phenomenon, the movement is at an early stage of its development. However, it is interesting to study it for many reasons. First, even a decade after it began, it is still growing in scale and following. Second, it is entirely spontaneous and internally driven, necessitating no public resources or support. Third, early indications are that its social and ecological impacts are beneficial and highly significant. Fourth, the movement was catalysed and spearheaded by spiritual and religious institutions, which made ingenious use of non-economic messages and motivators in forging a new natural resource ethic based on a broad, collective rationality among movement members. It appears, however, that beyond a threshold, the movement acquired a logic and energy of its own which might fuel its future sustainability and growth. Finally, the movement has important lessons to offer because mobilising social energy on such a scale and intensity can perhaps be one of most effective responses to many of the environmental challenges the world faces today.     

Control of landscape diversity by catastrophic disturbance: A theory and a case study of fire in a Canadian boreal forest

A landscape may be envisioned as a space partitioned by a number of ecosystem types, and so it conforms to a neo-Clementsian model of succession. A corollary is that intermediate disturbance rates should maximize landscape (beta) diversity. This was confirmed using eight boreal forest landscapes in northwestern Ontario, Canada, where intermediate rates of forest fire were associated with highest landscape diversity. Because current measures of evenness subsume a richness measure, it is not, as yet, feasible to assess the relative contributions of evenness and richness to biological diversity, and thus it was not possible to determine the roles of numbers of habitat types and relative amounts of habitat types in the above situation. Both theory and observations suggest that forest fire control in fire-prone landscapes increases landscape diversity, but that it is lowered by fire control in landscapes of intermediate to low diversity.     

An examination of the efficacy of the precautionary principle as a robust environmental planning and management protocol

The precautionary principle is regularly cited in cases that involve development in eco-sensitive locations. We investigated whether the precautionary principle provides the basis for a coherent framework to prevent environmental harm, and does it work in practice? We suggest that, in principle, the precautionary principle makes good sense. In practice, however, it is imprecise in policy and law and fails to fulfil its promise because it is loosely defined and thus lacks substance and clarity. Consequently, it operates in a framework that is ambiguous, leaving it open to manipulation by discretionary powers. To counter such deficiencies, human-induced environmental harm should be formally observed as ‘criminogenic’ and environmental protection prioritised against which other competing priorities (e.g., ‘year on year’ economic growth) are measured. This would overcome the politico-legal obfuscation and contestations of climate change policy that currently impedes the precautionary principle's practical application.     

Futures markets and economic efficiency: A theoretical perspective

This article examines the role of futures markets in schieving economic efficiency. The question is introduced in a timeless, certain framework, and extended to the case where time, but not uncertainty, becomes important: it is shown that in such a framework futures markets ensure economic efficiency. Uncertainty is then introduced, and it is shown that contingent markets ensure full efficiency, but that these are cumbersome; it is also shown that futures markets, as an alternative, ensure approximate efficiency. An appendix explores more formally the relation between markets and efficiency.     

A STATISTICAL APPROACH FOR PERFORMING WATER QUALITY IMPAIRMENT ASSESSMENTS1

ABSTRACT: A statistical approach for making Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) impairment decisions is developed as an alternative to the simple tally of the number of measurements that happen to exceed the standard. The method ensures that no more than a small (e.g., 10 percent) percentage of water quality samples will exceed a regulatory standard with a high level of confidence (e.g., 95 percent). The method is based on the 100(1‐α) percent lower confidence limit on an upper percentile of the concentration distribution. Advantages of the method include: (1) it provides a direct test of the hypothesis that a prespecified percentage of the true concentration distribution exceeds a regulatory standard, (2) it is applicable to a wide variety of different statistical concentration distributions, (3) it directly incorporates the magnitude of the measured concentrations unlike traditional approaches, and (4) it has explicit statistical power characteristics (i.e., what is the probability of missing an environmental impact). Detailed study of the simple tally approach reveals that it achieves high statistical power at the expense of unacceptably high false positive rates (30 to 40 percent false positive results). By contrast, the statistical approach results in similar statistical power while achieving a nominal false positive rate of 5 percent.     

Energy-Related Education and Awareness: The Role and Place for Exergy in Policy Development

Abstract

Exergy can play a key role in developing appropriate and beneficial energy-related policies relating to education and awareness. Two main areas where exergy can have an impact on policies are discussed in this article: public education and awareness and student education. The former is more general, but is supported by the latter. Regarding public education and awareness about exergy, it appears that the public is often confused when it discusses energy, and needs to be better educated about exergy if energy issues and problems are to be addressed appropriately. Regarding the education of students about exergy, it appears that the coverage of exergy in thermodynamics education is often insufficient and inappropriate. Better coverage of exergy is needed to improve thermodynamics education and to make it more interesting to students, and a basic level of “exergy literacy” is needed among engineers and scientists—particularly those involved in decision making.     

South African gold mining taxation : An example of a resource rent tax

Theoretically, a resource rent tax is neutral in that it does not influence the allocation of resources. However, the application of such fundamental principles in the tax formula of the South African gold mining industry negates the neutrality principle. A progressive element in the tax rate encourages mining of submarginal ores - leads to misallocation of resources. However, it substantially reduces the financial risks of a mining company engaged in the extraction of a commodity characterized by price volability, such as gold, and permits economies of scale in mining and encourages conservation of a non-renewable resource. As long as prices increase faster than costs, the advantages of this system probably exceed the disadvantages. The choice of the threshold rate in such a tax system is critical. If it is too high it will encourage mining of submarginal ores, and if too low it does not recognize the peculiar risks of gold mining investments.