Enhanced organic phosphorus detection in sediments by foam separation and 31P-NMR

Phosphorus (P) is both a nutrient and a pollutant. For instance, excess P induces water eutrophication followed by death of fishes and other water life. Determination of organic P content in sediments is therefore important to study P cycling and environmental pollution. The most widely used method to determine organic P in sediments is NaOH–EDTA extraction followed by ³¹P-NMR detection. However, some organic P compounds are difficult to extract using NaOH–EDTA due to the low solubility, thus can not be detected by ³¹P NMR. Here, we used foam separation to determine organic P in sediment of North Canal of Tianjin City, China. Organic P was first enriched using foam separation coupled with NaOH extraction. The enriched organic P was then analyzed with ³¹P NMR. The results showed that, compared with the traditional extraction method, foam separation coupled with NaOH extraction enriched more P compound because ³¹P NMR detected an extra signal of teichoic acid at chemical shift 1.14. This teichoic acid signal was not detected in the extract prepared using only NaOH–EDTA. Our finding demonstrates that determination using foam separation followed by ³¹P NMR is feasible.     

城市再生水生产工艺中典型紫外防晒剂的去除

随着紫外防晒剂在个人护理用品中的大量使用,其环境及健康风险效应开始得到人们的关注.采用固相萃取-气相色谱-质谱联用(SPE-GC-MS)技术对天津某再生水厂不同处理单元中4种典型紫外防晒剂4-甲氧基肉桂酸-2-乙基己基酯(ethylhexylmethoxycinnamate,EHMC),羟苯甲酮(benzophenone-3,BP-3),3-(4-甲苯基亚甲基)-d-1-樟脑(4-methylbenzylidene,4-MBC),2-氰基-3,3-二苯基丙酸-(2-乙基)己基酸(octocylene,OC)的分布及去除情况进行了检测.结果表明,污水处理厂二级出水中4种目标化合物的浓度范围在34ng·L-1￣2128ng·L-1之间;4种物质在夏秋季(7月和9月)的浓度普遍高于冬季(2月).污水处理厂二级出水中的这4种紫外防晒剂在经过混凝-絮凝处理、连续膜过滤和臭氧氧化处理后出水中的浓度呈下降趋势,总去除率为28.3%￣43.1%,其中臭氧氧化阶段对目标物的去除率最大(16%￣29%),而连续膜过滤阶段去除率最小(3.6%￣8.5%),混凝-絮凝阶段去除率介于2者之间(8%￣21%).由此可见,紫外防晒剂在再生水处理过程中并未得到完全去除,因此再生水的使用需经周密规划,以免对人体健康和生态环境造成威胁.     

黑龙江省的灾害地貌

地貌是研究地球表面成因、形态发生发展的科学,在自然地理环境中,地貌是主导因素之一。因为它影响着水、热、光、气的重新分配。地面物质的迁移和积累,制约着水文、气候、土壤、植被的特征、类型、分布和发展变化, 以及“旱”、“涝”、“风沙”等灾害的发生,水土流失的强度,地下水的贮存等自然地理过程。     

揭开青藏高原神秘面纱

在广袤的青藏高原蕴藏着哪些资源? 它的自然环境正在发生怎样的变化?在这个空寂荒凉的地方是否有过古人类活动? 为了回答这些问题,过去6年间,我国近千名地质工作者行程25万公里,进行了史无前例的青藏高原中比例尺地质调查,在矿产地质、生态环境、古人类学调查等方面取得了重要的新发现,初步揭开了世界屋脊上的神秘面纱。“青藏高原将成为我国新的铜矿基     

锆改性纳米TiO2的光催化性能研究

用溶胶-凝胶法制备了锆改性纳米二氧化钛光催化剂,并用XRD、UV-vis、BET等测定技术对所制得的粉体试样进行了表征.同时以甲基橙及苯酚为模拟污染物,评价了改性后纳米二氧化钛的光催化性能,发现其光催化活性大大高于未改性二氧化钛粉体,并得出当n(Zr)/n(Ti)=5/300时,锆改性纳米二氧化钛样品的光催化活性最高.     

Large-scale utilization of desulfurization ash and fly ash for unfired production of high-strength road-base stones

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management - This paper utilizes desulfurization ash (DA), fly ash (FA) and ordinary Portland cement (OPC) to prepare unfired high-strength road-base stones by...     

Multi-objective solid waste classification and identification model based on transfer learning method

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management - The rapid social development has given rise to a growing concern over environmental issues, one of which is the disposal of municipal solid waste....     

Antibiotic contamination in a typical water-rich city in southeast China: a concern for drinking water resource safety

Abstract

The occurrence and distribution in the aquatic environment of Nanjing of 49 antibiotics from seven therapeutic classes were investigated using an improved analytical method developed for multiclass target analysis. The results showed that these antibiotics are widely present in the water bodies of this city, with a total concentration of up to 1.958?μg L^?1. The most abundant class was tetracyclines, contributing 43.7% to the total antibiotic burden. Lincomycin was detected in all samples, and the detection rate of clindamycin was 90.5%. An exploratory analysis of the data points was performed by unsupervised pattern recognition (hierarchical cluster analysis, HCA) in an attempt to clarify the pollution level in different sampling areas, and robust cluster solutions grouped the data according to their different antibiotic contaminant profiles. The safety of drinking water resources was emphasized, and the rivers, as the main receiving water body for treated and untreated wastewater in this city, were more seriously contaminated than the surrounding lakes and reservoir, not only in concentration but also in detection frequency, in our study as well as in similar research studies. A correlation analysis between the presence of antibiotics and the environmental factors was conducted, and it was found that antibiotic contamination and water quality were closely connected; the better the water quality, the lower the antibiotic contamination. Positive correlations existed between the antibiotics and tested heavy metals, as well as between antibiotics and boron and arsenic. However, whether these correlations resulted from their reaction or a common source was difficult to determine, and the mechanism requires further exploration.     

Conservation prioritization with machine learning predictions for the black-necked crane Grus nigricollis,a flagship species on the Tibetan Plateau for 2070

Regional Environmental Change - Ongoing global climate change greatly alters the distribution of species, and such impacts are even amplified on the Tibetan Plateau. The black-necked crane (Grus...