TiO2光催化降解阳离子艳红反应动力学研究

本文以沉淀法制备的TiO2为催化剂,紫外杀菌灯为光源,对阳离子艳红染料的光催化降解进行动力学研究.实验结果表明TiO2光催化降解低浓度阳离子艳红的反应为一级反应,反应动力学行为符合Langmuir-Himshelwood方程,其反应速率常数为1.87 mg/L·min.     

玻璃蚀刻液废水中氨氮和氟去除研究

研究了MAP法(Magnesium Ammonium Phosphate磷酸铵镁结晶法)和化学沉淀法对玻璃蚀刻液废水中氨氮和氟的去除效果,获得了最佳工艺参数并形成了一套玻璃蚀刻液废水处理工艺。采用N/P/Mg投加比例为1∶1∶1的两级MAP法和Ca/F投加比为1. 8的两级化学沉淀法,并在两级氨氮和氟去除反应后分别添加PAC-PAM (聚合氯化铝-聚丙烯酰胺)为40 mg/L、2mg/L和20 mg/L、1mg/L进行絮凝沉淀,最终出水氨氮和氟的去除率分别可以达到96. 8%和99. 9%;对出水进行折点加氯处理,氨氮最终去除率可达99. 9%,出水可达到国家污水综合排放标准。     

炼油废水回用于循环冷却水系统深度处理技术

为解决水资源紧缺问题,提高工业水资源的利用率,减少污水排放,采用臭氧催化氧化—活性炭吸附—石灰软化的工艺组合,深度处理炼油厂中二级处理达标排放的污水,探讨最佳工艺参数的选择,进行二级出水回用于循环冷却水的试验研究。试验表明:在臭氧氧化接触时间为40min,活性炭柱吸附通水流量为2L/h,石灰乳投加量0.32g/L、碳酸钠溶液0.06～0.10g/L、石灰软化搅拌15～20min,能使整套工艺达到最佳处理效果。小试阶段COD、氨氮、总硬度及总碱度的去除率分别达到96.00%、44.49%、64.61%、67.85%,硫酸根和氯离子均有所下降,通过整套工艺深度处理后,所得中水可作为循环冷却系统补充水。     

城市剩余污泥制备吸附剂的研究及其应用

以城市污水处理厂的剩余污泥为原料,采用化学活化法制备活性碳污泥吸附剂.通过对比不同活化剂活化效果,并对影响活化产物吸附性能的因素进行了研究.结果表明以3mol/L的ZnCl2为活化剂,活化温度为550℃,固液比为1:2.5,热解时间2h,制备的活性碳吸附剂吸附碘值为317.4mg/g,活性炭吸附剂比表面积为232.526m2/g.采用制备的活性碳吸附剂处理模拟废水COD去除效果较好.     

微波辐射棉秆制备优质活性炭研究

研究了以棉秆废料为原料，采用微波辐射氯化锌法制备活性炭的可行性，探讨了微波功率、活化时间及氯化锌浓度对产品活性炭各项指标的影响。得到了微波辐射氯化锌法制备活性炭的最佳工艺：微波功率560W、活化时间6min、氯化锌浓度50％。用此工艺条件制得的活性炭碘吸附值：1030．2mg／g、亚甲基蓝脱色力180mL／g、得率36．82％。工艺所需活化时间为传统方法的1／36，产品活性炭吸附性能超过了国家一级标准。该工艺方法为农村棉秆资源的综合开发利用找到了新的途径。     

稠化酸返排液深度处理试验研究

针对陕北某气井稠化酸返排液pH值低、SS高、COD高、矿化度高和透光率低的特点,提出采用微电解-Fenton联合工艺处理稠化酸返排液,以期达到降低返排液COD,为后续混凝和活性炭吸附处理提供有利条件。试验结果表明:在铁屑20g、活性炭15g、H_2O_2 900mg/L,微电解-Fenton联合处理2h;调节pH值至7.5左右,PAC 700mg/L、PAM 50mg/L,混凝处理30min;活性炭40g/L,活性炭吸附处理40min的条件下,处理后的稠化酸返排液pH值为7.50、SS降至15mg/L、COD降至109.3mg/L、透光率提高至99.5%,水质达到GB 8978—1996《污水综合排放标准》二级标准。     

Fenton法预处理分子筛制造废水的实验研究

采用Fenton法预处理钛硅分子筛制造废水,通过单因素实验确定其最佳工艺条件:pH=4,H2O2=120mL/L,FeSO47H2O=20g/L,反应时间为40min。结果表明,此条件下COD去除率可达80%。     

超声波辅助提取杜仲籽油的工艺优化

以杜仲籽为原料,应用超声波辅助法提取杜仲籽油.在单因素试验的基础上,通过正交试验确定了超声波辅助提取杜仲籽油的较佳工艺条件.结果表明,杜仲籽油的较佳提取工艺条件为料液比12ml/g,提取温度50℃,提取时间15min,超声波功率225W,在该条件下杜仲籽油得率27.24%.     

花生壳对Cr（Ⅵ）的等温吸附模型研究

在花生壳吸附剂量为1.0g、pH2.0、温度30℃、振荡速度140r/min、吸附时间360min条件下,实验研究了不同初始浓度（50 mg/L、75 mg/L、100 mg/L、125 mg/L、150 mg/L）的Cr（Ⅵ）溶液等温吸附曲线。研究结果表明,Langmuir等温吸附模型符合得更好;该吸附是一个优先吸附过程;最大饱和吸附量为6.25mg/g。     

LDO处理垃圾渗滤液中氮的实验研究

研究了复合金属氧化物（LDO）用于处理垃圾渗滤液中氮的可行性,并与传统吸附剂粉末活性炭（PAC）进行了比较,考察了投加量、振荡速度、吸附时间、吸附温度、pH等因素对处理效果的影响。结果表明,当垃圾渗滤液中总氮浓度为561mg/L、LDO投加量为6g/L、振荡速度为170r/min、吸附时间为60min、温度为25℃、pH值为11时,LDO对总氮的吸附量最高,达到41mg/g。在相同条件下,LDO对总氮的吸附量是PAC的2.5—3.5倍。     

BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ESTUARINE/COASTAL POLLUTION1

ABSTRACT: Sustained interest in and concern about the health status of the aquatic environment has resulted in extensive research focused on (1) effects of pollution on survival, growth, and reproduction of resource species at all life stages; (2) diseases of fish and shellfish, as they may be related to pollution and as they may serve as indicators of environmental stress; and (3) contaminant body burdens in fish and shellfish - their effects on the aquatic animals and their potential effects on humans. Effects, lethal and sublethal, of pollutants on life history stages of fish and shellfish have been documented, as have impacts on local stocks in badly degraded habitats, but as yet there has been no adequate quantitative demonstration of effects on entire aquatic species - probably because of the difficulty in sorting out relative effects of the many environmental factors that influence abundance. Sublethal effects, especially those that result in disease, have been examined intensively, and some diseases and disease syndromes have been associated statistically with pollution. Other pollution indicators (biochemical, physiological, genetic, behavioral, and ecological) have also received some attention, as have body burdens of contaminants in aquatic species. Research, especially that conducted during the past decade, has done much to clarify the many pathways and toxic effects of contaminants on aquatic animals, and has also helped to identify mechanisms for survival of fish and shellfish in the presence of environmental changes caused by human activities.     

Definition Procedures Have Little Effect on Performance of Environmental Classifications of Streams and Rivers

Mapped environmental classifications are defined using various procedures, but there has been little evaluation of the differences in their ability to discriminate variation in independent ecological characteristics. We tested the performance of environmental classifications of the streams and rivers of France that had been defined from the same environmental data using geographic regionalization and numerical classification of individual river valley segments. Test data comprised invertebrate assemblages, water chemistry, and hydrological indexes obtained from sites throughout France. Classification performance was measured by analysis of similarity (ANOSIM). Geometric regions defined by a regular grid and without regard to environmental variables and a posteriori classifications based on clustering the test datasets defined lower and upper bounds of performance for a given number of classes. Differences in classification performances were generally small. The ANOSIM statistics for the a posteriori classifications were around twice that of all environmental classifications, including geometrically defined regions. The hydro-ecoregions performed slightly better for the invertebrate data and the network classification performed slightly better for the chemistry and hydrological data. Our results indicate that environmental classifications that are defined using different procedures can be comparable in terms of their ability to discriminate variation of ecological characteristics and that alleged differences in performance arising from different classification procedures can be small relative to unexplained variation. We conclude that definition procedures might have little effect on the performance of large-scale environmental classifications and decisions over which procedures to use should be based primarily on pragmatic considerations.     

Journalists' views of advertiser pressures on agricultural news

All major journalism ethical codes explicitly state that journalists should protect editorial copy from undue influence by outside sources. However, much of the previous research on agricultural information has concentrated on what information various media communicate (gatekeeping studies) or communication's role in increasing innovation adoption (diffusion studies). Few studies have concentrated specifically on organizational and structural constraints that might adversely affect agricultural journalists' ethical standards; those that have, focus largely on farm magazines. A study of newspaper reporters who cover agricultural news found that the most pressing ethical concern is the effect of advertiser (agri-business) pressure on editorial copy, and that their concerns in general parallel those of farm magazine writers and editors. The majority reported being in situations in which they might be exposed to advertiser pressure, including pressures to change or withhold editorial copy. Large minorities suggested that advertising pressures affect the overall environment in which agricultural journalists work, and more than one in ten said they allow advertiser pressures to influence editorial decisions. The newspaper reporters who cover agricultural beats showed slightly more resistance to advertiser pressure than did farm magazine editors in a parallel study.     

Provincial development plans in Zimbabwe: an analysis of their content,structure and methodology

Zimbabwean provincial plans were instituted to help in the achievement of the national goal of the creation of an egalitarian, socialist and integrated society. The national goal itself was adopted as an antithesis to the dualist society characterised by spatial, economic, social, politican and technological inequalities that Zimbabwe inherited from colonialism. This meant that provincial plans had to play both a functional (or growth allocating/distribution) and a territorial (or redistribution) role.

This paper reviews their role in achieving the national goal by examining their functions, content, structure and methodology. The paper concludes that because of their nature, provincial plans are not suitable tools for the achievement of the national goal.     

Effect of Light on Biodegradation of Estrone, 17β‐Estradiol,and 17α‐Ethinylestradiol in Stream Sediment

Biodegradation of [A‐ring ¹⁴C] Estrone (E1), 17β‐estradiol (E2), and 17α‐ethinylestradiol (EE2) to ¹⁴CO₂ was investigated under light and dark conditions in microcosms containing epilithon or sediment collected from Boulder Creek, Colorado. Mineralization of the estrogen A‐ring was observed in all sediment treatments, but not epilithon treatments. No difference in net mineralization between light and dark treatments was observed for ¹⁴C‐E2. Net mineralization of ¹⁴C‐E1 and ¹⁴C‐EE2 was enhanced in light treatments. Extents of ¹⁴CO₂ accumulation and rates of mineralization were significantly greater for E2 than E1 under dark conditions, but were comparable under light conditions. These results indicate substantial differences in the uptake and metabolism of E1 and E2 in the environment and suggest biorecalcitrance of E1 relative to E2 in light‐limited environments. The extent of ¹⁴CO₂ accumulation and rate of mineralization for EE2 in dark treatments were less than half of that observed for E2 and generally lower than for E1, consistent with previous reports of EE2 biorecalcitrance. However, ¹⁴CO₂ accumulation and rates of mineralization were comparable for EE2, E2, and E1 under light conditions. These results indicate photoactivation and/or phototransformation/photodegradation processes can substantially enhance heterotrophic biodegradation of estrogens in sunlit environments and may play an important role in estrogen transport and attenuation.     

Bioremediation of Soils by Plant–Microbe Systems

Abstract

Sustainable ecosystems can be designed to eliminate environmental toxins and reduce pathogen loads through the direct and indirect consequences of plant and microbial activities. We present an approach to the bioremediation of disturbed environments, focusing on petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) contaminants. Treatment consists of incorporating a plant-based amendment to enhance ecosystem productivity and physiochemical degradation followed by the establishment of plants to serve as oxidizers and foundations for microbial communities. Promising amendments for widespread use are entire plants of the water fern Azolla and seed meal of Brassica napus (rapeseed). An inexpensive byproduct from the manufacture of biodiesel and lubricants, rapeseed meal is high in nitrogen (6% wt/wt), stimulates >100-fold increases in populations of resident Streptomyces species, and suppresses fungal infection of roots subsequently cultivated in the amended soil. Synergistic enzymatic and chemical activities of plant and microbial metabolism in root zones transform and degrade soil contaminants. Emphasis is given to mechanisms that enable PHC functionalization via reactive molecular species.     

National minerals policies and stakeholder participation for broad-based development in the southern African development community (SADC)

This paper explains how the well-accepted concept of improved stakeholder participation during mineral policy development leads to a national mineral policy that accommodates the diverging views and interests that allows wide acceptance of decisions, enhancing the success of implementation and, ultimately, national benefits. This process is based on lessons learnt during the South African experience and has been successfully applied in the development of the Namibian and Malawian national minerals policies. An effective policy in the SADC will engineer the delicate balance between poverty reduction and an internationally competitive minerals sector. This balance enhances the possibility of long-term economic growth and development in the SADC region. The overriding advantage of this strategy is that it generates ‘home-grown’ policy instruments and implementation of mineral law with which stakeholders can identify. This process presents a new challenge to traditional policy formulation strategies in emerging economies and the bottom-up approach, linked to wide political support, allows the potential realisation of national objectives.     

Energetics and environmental costs of agriculture in a dry tropical region of India

The present article, based on a study of five village ecosystems, assesses the energy efficiency of rain-fed agriculture in a dry tropical environment and the impact of agricultural activity on the surrounding natural ecosystems. Agronomic yield is insufficient to meet the food requirement of the human population, hence 11.5%–49.7% of the required amount of food grains are imported from the market. Energy requirements of five studied agroecosystems are subsidized considerably by the surrounding forest in the form of fodder and firewood. Natural ecosystems supply about 80%–95% of fodder needs and 81%–100% of fuelwood needs. The output-input ratio of agriculture indicated that, on average, 4.1 units of energy are expended to obtain one unit of agronomic energy. Of this, 3.9 units are supplied by the natural ecosystem. In addition, 38% of the extracted firewood is marketed. The illegal felling and lopping of trees result in ever-increasing concentric circles of forest destruction around the villages and together with excessive grazing results in savannization. The forests can be conserved by encouraging fuelwood plantations (0.7 ha/ha cultivated land) and developing village pastures (1.6 ha/ha cultivated land) and reducing the livestock numbers. Agricultural production in the region can be stabilized by introducing improved dry farming techniques such as intercropping, planned rainwater management, and adequate use of fertilizers.     

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “METROPOLITAN WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS?”1

ABSTRACT The term “institution” and several variants are used frequently in the literature on metropolitan water management. The state-of-the art investigation on which this paper is based revealed that 1) many uses of the term do not include careful definitions; 2) many users of the term seemed unaware of the general, theoretical literature on the subject of institutions; 3) there was little consistency among uses, either in the practical literature dealing with water or in the conceptual literature dealing with theories of institutions or institutionalization; 4) some usages were without significant meaning; 5) in many cases the term was used as a kind of “black box” to account for behavioral, societal, or managerial factors; 6) the term was often used as a synonym for “organization”. This latter use is frequently found in federal reports, including National Water Commission studies, and is most unfortunate because it tends to slight significant social-psychological factors. A suggested definition is: “An institution is the structured result or outcome of a process by which values are articulated, arranged, and communicated, having continuity over time, and influencing behavior of persons who did not necessarily participate in formulating those values (norms).”     

Waste minimisation in practice

One of the major hindrances to waste minimisation on a construction site is the difficulty in establishing a methodology and using this methodology to benchmark future construction projects. This paper introduces SMARTWaste, a software tool that has been used to audit, reduce and target waste arisings on a construction site. This tool tries to link the construction process and the waste hierarchy. That is reducing waste on a construction site rather than landfilling it. Three applications of the SMARTWaste software will be discussed using case studies from three different types of construction. An evaluation of these case studies shows that, by implementing a waste minimisation scheme on-site, you can improve material recovery for reuse. Also, by using the waste arisings as a benchmark you can reduce your waste arisings on future sites. Application of SMARTWaste or a similar waste minimisation tool on a wider basis could reduce waste arisings and could result in a built environment that consumed less natural resources and energy, and also produced less pollution and waste. Such a built environment would be environmentally and socially more responsive and responsible.