Improving the aeration of critical fine-grained landfill top cover material by vegetation to increase the microbial methane oxidation efficiency

The natural methane oxidation potential of methanotrophic bacteria in landfill top covers is a sustainable and inexpensive method to reduce methane emissions to the atmosphere. Basically, the activity of methanotrophic bacteria is limited by the availability of oxygen in the soil. A column study was carried out to determine whether and to what extent vegetation can improve soil aeration and maintain the methane oxidation process. Tested soils were clayey silt and mature compost. The first soil is critical in light of surface crusting due to vertical erosion of an integral part of fine-grained material, blocking pores required for the gas exchange. The second soil, mature compost, is known for its good methane oxidation characteristics, due to high air-filled porosity, favorable water retention capacity and high nutrient supply. The assortment of plants consisted of a grass mixture, Canadian goldenrod and a mixture of leguminous plants. The compost offered an excellent methane oxidation potential of 100% up to a CH₄-input of 5.6 l CH₄ m⁻² h⁻¹. Whereas the oxidation potential was strongly diminished in the bare control column filled with clayey silt even at low CH₄-loads. By contrast the planted clayey silt showed an increased methane oxidation potential compared to the bare column. The spreading root system forms secondary macro-pores, and hence amplifies the air diffusivity and sustain the oxygen supply to the methanotrophic bacteria. Water is produced during methane oxidation, causing leachate. Vegetation reduces the leachate by evapotranspiration. Furthermore, leguminous plants support the enrichment of soil with nitrogen compounds and thus improving the methane oxidation process. In conclusion, vegetation is relevant for the increase of oxygen diffusion into the soil and subsequently enhances effective methane oxidation in landfill cover soils.     

废液中CODcr的治理与利用

研究了废液中CODCr的治理与利用.废液处理工艺流程简单,实用,回收了其中的金属,并根据需要将它们制备成相应的化学试剂,用于研究.实验结果令人满意.     

SNCR脱硝技术在循环流化床锅炉上的应用

分析了循环流化床锅炉特性和SNCR烟气脱硝技术的特点,通过CFD计算分析,对烟气和还原剂喷射混合过程进行了研究,得到了较理想的SNCR脱硝流场设计结果。在某75t/h循环流化床锅炉SNCR烟气脱硝工程上的初步应用结果表明,SNCR烟气脱硝效率可达55%以上,系统简捷、性能可靠,是循环流化床锅炉进行NOx控制的理想选择。     

Validation of spectral gas radiation models under oxyfuel conditions—Part B: Natural gas flame experiments

Combustion of hydrocarbon fuels with pure oxygen results in a different flue gas composition as combustion with air. Standard CFD spectral gas radiation models for air blown combustion are out of their validity range. The series of three articles provides a common spectral basis for the validation of new developed models. Part B of the series presents spectral measurements in the spectral range of 2.4–5.4 μm of a 70 kW turbulent natural gas flame in air blown combustion and in wet and dry oxyfuel combustion. The experimentally measured intensity spectra were compared with simulated spectra based on measured gas atmospheres. The line-by-line database HITEMP2010 and the two statistical-narrow-band models EM2C and RADCAL were used for the numerical simulation. The measured spectra showed large fluctuations due to turbulence. The up to 75% increased averaged experimental intensity compared to the simulated intensity pointed out the importance of the effect of turbulence-radiation-interaction in combustion simulations.     

荒漠植物红砂研究进展

主要综述了荒漠植物红砂的分布区及其生境、解剖学特征、种子萌发及幼苗生长影响因素、组织培养、生理生态特征、繁殖及育苗、分子生物学特性等方面的研究。简要阐述了修复和重建红砂植被的必要性,并着重研究了红砂种子萌发的影响因素及育苗技术的发展现状,在此基础上指出红砂研究中的不足之处,并对今后的研究方向提出了建议。     

层状半空间中凹陷地形对斜入射平面P波的2.5维散射

采用间接边界元法研究了层状半空间中凹陷地形对斜入射平面P波的2.5维散射问题。取无限长凹陷地形任一横截面,将边界以斜线单元离散,通过自由场反应分析,求得假想边界上各单元的应力响应。施加虚拟移动均布斜线荷载,求得应力格林函数。根据凹陷边界上的零应力边界条件确定虚拟移动均布斜线荷载密度,将自由场响应和虚拟移动均布斜线荷载产生的响应叠加起来,即得到问题的解答。通过与已有结果的对比,验证了本文方法的正确性。最后,以均匀弹性半空间和基岩上单一土层中凹陷地形对斜入射平面P波的2.5维散射为例,进行了数值计算分析,结果表明:凹陷地形的2.5维散射和二维散射之间存在明显差异;层状半空间中凹陷地形和均匀半空间中凹陷地形对波的散射作用存在显著差别。分析了造成差别的原因,并深入讨论了入射角度、覆盖层厚度和刚度对散射作用的影响。     

天津Z2线工程软土场地震陷分析∗

天津Z2线轨道交通工程地处滨海软土地区。基于《软土地区岩土工程勘察规程》中简化的分层总和法,采用一维土层非线性地震响应分析程序EERA替代Seed经验公式计算土层的动应力,同时采用修正的软土残余应变势简化计算公式,开展了天津Z2线全部98个钻孔的软土震陷计算。结果表明,地表震陷主要源自较浅土层,地表深度20 m以下的震陷可不考虑;隧道由地下线过渡到高架线的上升段震陷较大,应考虑采取防控措施;场地震陷主要由淤泥质土层产生,占地表震陷的70%～80%以上。研究对于类似工程具有一定参考价值。     

Pup guarding by greater spear-nosed bats

Alloparental care poses an evolutionary dilemma because effort is expended on non-filial offspring. Thus, instances of alloparental care have been attributed to either mistaken identity, (i.e., recognition errors) or active cooperation. In greater spear-nosed bats (Phyllostomus hastatus), reproductive females roost together in stable long-term social groups in cave ceilings. Non-volant pups frequently fall from roost sites to the cave floor where they can die unless retrieved by an adult. In this study, we examined the function of adult female visits to non-filial young and tested whether visits were attributable to recognition errors or to cooperation. We found that females visited non-filial pups from their own social group more than expected. Females from different social groups attacked and sometimes killed pups, and male pups were attacked more frequently than female pups. Visits by group mates benefited fallen pups by reducing the likelihood of attack by females from other groups. In contrast to the mistaken identity hypothesis, we found that some females leave their own pups to approach and remain with group mates’ pups. We used microsatellite markers to estimate relatedness and test whether kinship could explain this alloparental care and found that females were unrelated to the pups they guard. We conclude that females who reside in highly stable social groups exhibit cooperative behavior that cannot be explained by kinship and is unlikely to be due to direct or generalized reciprocity. Instead, our data suggest that alloparental care likely involves a complex interplay between group membership and cooperative foraging.     

含镍废液中镍回收的研究

本文研究了强碱性条件下,以乙二胺为络合剂,用水合肼把二价镍离子还原为单质镍的方法。经过大量实验,镍粉的产率在99％以上,其纯度也在99％以上。通过这种方法,既回收了镍,又降低了对环境的污染,结果令人满意。     

Regional assessment of plant growth problems for colliery spoil reclamation

The data on plant growth conditions collected for 34 sites in the Barnsley and South Yorkshire Areas of the National Coal Board are analysed using methods of ordination and numerical classification in order to display the regional variations of plant growth characteristics. The potential value of such regional analyses and the manner in which such information could be used by reclamation agencies is discussed and a detailed example is presented for one site. The complete methodology and its limitations are reviewed and the implications for planning of reclamation projects discussed.