聚丙烯纤维组合填料在CAST水处理工艺中的运用

西南某市小型污水处理厂目前日处理能力为2万t.d-1,进水主要为生活污水(70%)和抗生素制药废水(30%)。由于各种原因,处理效果一直很差,尤其是CODcr、NH4-N两项指标很难达到国家排放标准要求。后经过一系列实验研究分析,发现向反应池中投加聚丙烯纤维(组合填料)对处理水质起到了很好的改善作用。     

磁混凝澄清工艺在污水厂提标中的应用

磁混凝澄清工艺是在常规混凝工艺中投加磁粉,磁粉微小有利于混凝絮体生成。介绍了磁混凝澄清工艺的原理及技术特点,并实际应用于一级A提标工程,结果表明,磁混凝澄清池表面水力负荷可达20~40 m3/m2·h,同时出水SS5 mg/L,浊度1.0 NTU,TP0.02 mg/L,非常适合于城市污水厂提标。     

气田压裂返排液氧化处理实验研究

以四川某气田压裂返排液为研究对象,采用破胶絮凝处理后进行氧化对比实验,氧化剂选用高锰酸钾、过硫酸钾、次氯酸钠、Fenton试剂。研究表明,絮凝实验最佳条件为氧化钙、硫酸铝和硫酸亚铁投加量分别为3,1,1 g/L。4种氧化方法的最佳实验条件为:高锰酸钾投加量0.5 g/L,pH值为4;过硫酸钾投加量0.25g/L,pH值为6;次氯酸钠投加量15 g/L,pH值为4;Fenton氧化方法pH值为3.5,双氧水投加量25 g/L,七水硫酸亚铁投加量10 g/L。出水COD_(Cr)最多可降至800 mg/L左右,最大COD_(Cr)去除率72.96%,处理效果良好,为后续处理创造了条件。     

2012年国家鼓励发展的环境保护技术（二）

超磁分离水体净化技术技术依托单位：四川环能德美科技股份有限公司中图分类号：X703文献标志码：B文章编号：1006-5377（2012）11-0061-01工艺路线该技术在废水中投加磁粉、混凝剂、助凝剂,形成磁粉为核心的絮体,再利用磁性材料将废水中的磁性体分离出来,实现水体的净化。磁粉回收循环利用。主要技术指标SS和总磷去除率大于95%。适用范围适用于含悬浮物浓度高的污水处理。     

高锰酸钾预氧化强化微污染水源水中锰的去除

目前,我国很多地区地表水都存在锰超标问题,这给供水安全带来了极大隐患.本文考察了高锰酸盐预氧化强化水中锰的去除效果.实验结果表明,原水经过高锰酸盐处理后,水中的锰含量明显降低,当高锰酸盐投加量达到0.5mg/L之后,水中的锰离子浓度已经达到了原子吸收检出限以下,但色度有所增加.当高锰酸钾∶硫酸亚铁=1∶4时,水中的锰去除效果较好,色度降低,随着亚铁离子投加比例的增加,水中锰的去除率反而下降.     

混凝剂在再生水深度处理中的实验研究

选用硫酸亚铁、三氯化铁、聚合氯化铝、硫酸铝4种混凝剂进行再生水深度处理实验,考察铁盐类和铝盐类混凝剂对二级出水中浊度和UV254的去除效果,以及对三氯甲烷与四氯化碳的控制效果。在投加量为40 mg/L时,聚合氯化铝对浊度和UV254处理效果最好;对氯化消毒中三氯甲烷生成量控制效果最好的是三氯化铁,其次是硫酸亚铁;聚合氯化铝对四氯化碳的控制效果最好,且投加量在10 mg/L时,四氯化碳生成量达到最低。     

黄浦江上游原水强化处理选炭试验研究

以黄浦江上游水源为原水,通过煤质炭、竹质炭、椰壳炭等炭种筛选小试和中试试验,研究了黄浦江上游原水中有机污染物强化去除的最佳炭种及其最佳投加量。结果表明黄浦江上游原水中投加PAC能够改善处理后水质,提高原水中有机物的去除效果;并且随着PAC投加量的增加,原水中有机物去除效果增强;综合性价比、碳源等因素确定竹质炭较为经济合理;当竹质炭投加量为10～15mg/L时,处理后出水CODMn可达到3mg/L或以下。     

冷轧废乳化液混凝破乳试验研究

试验针对某冷轧带钢公司的废乳化液,研究了聚合硫酸铁(PFS)、聚合氯化铝(PAC)、硫酸铁[Fe_2(SO_4)_3·7H_2O]、硫酸亚铁(FeSO_4·7H_2O)对废乳化液的混凝-上浮影响。实验结果表明,4种混凝剂对破乳效果均较好,综合考虑絮体状态、处理效果及成本,确定硫酸亚铁为本试验的最佳药剂。试验温度为实验季节水温,温度为20℃左右。最佳试验条件为:硫酸亚铁投加量为4 g/L,PAM投加量为0.04 g/L,pH=8,此时COD去除率为95.2%,油去除率为96.7%。     

活性炭在膜生物反应器中的应用研究进展

活性炭是一种非常优良的吸附剂，具有物理吸附和化学吸附的双重特性。本文介绍了近年来向膜生物反应器中投加活性炭的应用研究进展，表明投加活性炭可以提高膜生物反应器的处理效果，同时对改善膜污染有很好的效果。     

纤维转盘微滤布污水过滤技术

<正>由浦华环保有限公司开发的纤维转盘微滤布污水过滤技术,适用于废水的深度处理与中水回用。主要技术内容一、基本原理采用微滤布过滤结合化学加药方法去除二级处理出水中的总磷。化学除磷通过化学沉析过程和化学絮凝作用完成。向污水中投加溶解性的金属盐药剂后,溶解性的磷转换成为非溶解性的磷酸金属盐,同时也会产生非     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

A DISTRIBUTED DYNAMIC WATERSHED MODEL1

ABSTRACT: A distributed watershed model was developed to mathematically simulate overland and channel flow for a single-event storm. The modeled watersheds in the study were subdivided into rectangular grid elements. All hydrologically significant parameters, such as land slope, rainfall and precipitation excess, were assumed to be uniform within each element. The Green-Ampt method was adopted to generate precipitation excess for each element during the simulation period. A two-dimensional diffusion wave model was used for overland flow routing and an iterative Alternative Direction Implicit scheme was used to solve the simultaneous overland flow equations. Once the overland flow became inflow to the channel, a one-dimensional dynamic wave flood routing technique, based on a four-point, implicit, non-linear finite difference solution of the St. Venant equation of unsteady flow, was applied. A limited number of comparisons were made between simulated and observed hydrographs for areas of about one square mile. Given the appropriate parameters, the model was able to accurately simulate runoff for single-event storms. This paper describes a distributed watershed model developed to simulate overland and channel flow. Comparisons were made between simulated and observed hydrographs for three watersheds. The model was able to accurately simulate the runoff for single-event storms using 61-m by 61-m (200 ft by 200 ft) watershed grid elements.     

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.     

INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT WHO SHOULD LEAD,WHO SHOULD PAY?1

ABSTRACT: Improving water management to meet future global needs will certainly require technical advances, but the main challenge is to integrate the viewpoints of diverse societal interests into decisions about allocation of water resources. The integration cannot be done solely by the market because it requires a balancing among interests which do not respond well to market forces, nor by the state alone because of institutional problems. The concept of “integrated water resources management” has been developed to provide the framework for the required balancing of interests, and, like similar concepts in industries other than water, it has a dual purpose - to link stakeholders and apply best practices to management actions. To clarify the process of integrated water management, the paper focuses on two questions: who should lead integrated water resources management and who should pay for it? Several examples are given to illustrate a range of situations. The paper concludes with a call to improve paradigms of integrated water management, a proposition that water organizations should accept and budget for their external responsibilities as well as their direct missions, affirmation of the need for state and federal agencies to be involved with local interests, a call for better scientific and public information, and identification of the need for continued work to improve the process of integrated water management.