Recyling manganese-rich electrolytic residues: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Huge amounts of manganese-rich solid residues are yearly produced worldwide by industrial electrolysis, calling for advanced methods of recycling in the context of...     

Win-Win: Anthropogenic circularity for metal criticality and carbon neutrality

● Anthropogenic circularity science is an emerging interdisciplinary field. ● Anthropogenic circularity was one effective strategy against metal criticality. ● Carbon neutrality is becoming the new industry paradigm around the world. ● Growing circularity could potentially minimize the CO₂ emission. Resource depletion and environmental degradation have fueled a burgeoning discipline of anthropogenic circularity since the 2010s. It generally consists of waste reuse, remanufacturing, recycling, and recovery. Circular economy and “zero-waste” cities are sweeping the globe in their current practices to address the world’s grand concerns linked to resources, the environment, and industry. Meanwhile, metal criticality and carbon neutrality, which have become increasingly popular in recent years, denote the material's feature and state, respectively. The goal of this article is to determine how circularity, criticality, and neutrality are related. Upscale anthropogenic circularity has the potential to expand the metal supply and, as a result, reduce metal criticality. China barely accomplished 15 % of its potential emission reduction by recycling iron, copper, and aluminum. Anthropogenic circularity has a lot of room to achieve a win-win objective, which is to reduce metal criticality while also achieving carbon neutrality in a near closed-loop cycle. Major barriers or challenges for conducting anthropogenic circularity are deriving from the inadequacy of life-cycle insight governance and the emergence of anthropogenic circularity discipline. Material flow analysis and life cycle assessment are the central methodologies to identify the hidden problems. Mineral processing and smelting, as well as end-of-life management, are indicated as critical priority areas for enhancing anthropogenic circularity.     

Research on the effects of command-and-control and market-oriented policy tools on China’s energy conservation and emissions reduction innovation

The impact of environmental regulation on technology innovation is a hot spot in current research where a large number of empirical studies are based on Porter Hypothesis (PH). However, there are still controversies in academia about the establishment of “weak” and “narrow” versions of PH. Based on the panel data of application for patent of energy conservation and emission reduction (ECER) technology of Chinese city scale during 2008–2014, comprehensive energy price, pollutant emission, etc., mixed regression model and systematic generalized method of moments method were adopted, respectively, to study the impact of market-oriented and command-and-control policy tool on China’s ECER technology innovation. The results show that the environmental regulation hindered the technological innovation in the immediate phase; however, it turned out to be positive in the first-lag phase. Hence, the establishment of “weak” PH is time-bounded. The command-and-control policy tool played a more positive role in promoting technological innovation in the first-lag phase than market-oriented policy tool. Therefore, “narrow” PH is not tenable. The reason is that the main participants of China’s ECER technology innovation are state-owned companies and public institutions. Regionally speaking, the impact which command-and-control policy tool has on technological innovation at sight was non-significant in the eastern, the central, and the western regions of China whilst market-oriented policy tool had a negative effect. And market-oriented policy tool in the central region had strongest negative effect, which would diminish in the eastern region and become weakest in the western region. This was related to regional energy consumption level and the market economic vitality.     

地铁多线换乘车站火灾模型实验研究—(2)十字换乘车站火灾

针对当前地铁十字换乘车站缺少火灾场景系统性分析和评估的问题，釆用1∶10的地铁多线换乘车站火灾实验模型，进行十字换乘车站的火灾场景设计和对应全尺寸火源热释放率0.91~2.60 MW的火灾实验，研究十字换乘车站内站厅及站台危险位置发生火灾时的优化排烟方案。结果表明:站厅一端火灾时，站厅排烟可确保中部换乘通道和站厅另一端楼梯及出口在起火6 min内不受烟气影响；站厅中部火灾时，采用站厅排烟能保障站厅两端楼梯及出口作为疏散通道的安全性。地下2层站台或地下3层站台一端楼梯口发生火灾时，采用站台排烟与站厅送风联动的模式可控制烟气在站台内的扩散范围，确保站台未起火楼梯和站厅层在起火6 min内能够作为安全疏散通道；仅采用站台排烟可以控制烟气在站台内水平方向的扩散，但在火源功率较大时烟气会通过换乘通道和楼梯进入站厅。通过模型实验验证十字换乘车站中采用站厅站台联合通风模式的有效性，并提出多种火源功率、通风模式下的烟气扩散范围和规律，为十字换乘车站的烟气控制模式优化提供了数据支撑。     

Model-averaged confidence distributions

Environmental and Ecological Statistics - Model averaging is commonly used to allow for model uncertainty in parameter estimation. As well as providing a point estimate that is a natural compromise...     

A wetland plant,Phalaris arundinacea,accumulates nitrogen and phosphorus during senescence

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Secondary pollution resulting from shoot death is a difficult problem that complicated the application of wetland plants for water purification in...     

Methane emissions responding to Azolla inoculation combined with midseason aeration and N fertilization in a double-rice cropping system

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas (GHG), and paddy fields are major sources of CH4 emissions. This pot experiment was conducted to...     

川东地区气田水处理技术及工程应用

针对川东地区气田水的性质和目前气田水处理工艺存在的问题,通过对不同水样进行室内蒸发及生物氧化实验,开发了蒸发-生物-臭氧以及氧化-生物-臭氧联合工艺技术。实验结果表明:经蒸发-生物-臭氧复合工艺以及氧化-生物-臭氧复合工艺处理后,川东地区气田水中主要指标CODCr、Cl-、硫化物以及石油类的去除率超过95%,出水指标达到GB 8978-1996《污水综合排放标准》一级排放要求;这两种处理工艺整体适应能力强,抗来水冲击负荷高,能高效处理气田水中污染物且出水稳定,有效实现了气田水的达标处置,实现资源化配置,符合国家环保政策,可实现较好的经济、社会和环境效益,对当前川东地区气田水处理有一定的参考价值。     

黑磷纳米片应用及生物毒性研究进展

黑磷纳米片(black phosphorus nanosheet,BPNS)是一种新型纳米材料,它拥有可调节的带隙宽度、高度各向异性、高载流子迁移率、广谱光吸收性和良好生物相容性等诸多特性,在电子、光电、电化学、环保和生物医学等领域表现出巨大的应用潜力.近年来,随着对BPNS研究的深入,其生物安全性问题备受关注.本文简要介绍了BPNS的应用现状和前景,着重综述了其环境危害、健康危害以及毒性机制研究进展,为生产生物安全性更高、环境更友好的黑磷纳米材料提供科学依据.     

Enhanced nickel removal and synchronous bioelectricity generation based on substrate types in microbial fuel cell coupled with constructed wetland: performance and microbial response

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - In this study, an attempt was made to clarify the impact of substrates on the microbial fuel cell coupled with constructed wetland (CW-MFC) towards...