Unintentional non-traffic injury and fatal events: Threats to children in and around vehicles

Objective: There have been substantial reductions in motor vehicle crash–related child fatalities due to advances in legislation, public safety campaigns, and engineering. Less is known about non-traffic injuries and fatalities to children in and around motor vehicles. The objective of this study was to describe the frequency of various non-traffic incidents, injuries, and fatalities to children using a unique surveillance system and database.

Methods: Instances of non-traffic injuries and fatalities in the United States to children 0–14 years were tracked from January 1990 to December 2014 using a compilation of sources including media reports, individual accounts from families of affected children, medical examiner reports, police reports, child death review teams, coroner reports, medical professionals, legal professionals, and other various modes of publication.

Results: Over the 25-year period, there were at least 11,759 events resulting in 3,396 deaths. The median age of the affected child was 3.7 years. The incident types included 3,115 children unattended in hot vehicles resulting in 729 deaths, 2,251 backovers resulting in 1,232 deaths, 1,439 frontovers resulting in 692 deaths, 777 vehicles knocked into motion resulting in 227 deaths, 415 underage drivers resulting in 203 deaths, 172 power window incidents resulting in 61 deaths, 134 falls resulting in 54 deaths, 79 fires resulting in 41 deaths, and 3,377 other incidents resulting in 157 deaths.

Conclusions: Non-traffic injuries and fatalities present an important threat to the safety and lives of very young children. Future efforts should consider complementary surveillance mechanisms to systematically and comprehensively capture all non-traffic incidents. Continued education, engineering modifications, advocacy, and legislation can help continue to prevent these incidents and must be incorporated in overall child vehicle safety initiatives.     

Spatial cost efficiency in waste paper handling: the case of corrugated board in Sweden

This paper analyzes the spatial cost efficiency of the Swedish legislation regarding waste disposal handling. We focus on the case of corrugated board and recognize that the different counties in Sweden possess different economic prerequisites in terms of waste paper recovery and utilization potential. We employ data for six corrugated board mills and 20 counties and a non-linear programming model to identify the least cost strategy for reaching the politically specified recycling target of a 65% recovery rate for corrugated board. That is, the total costs of recovering a minimum of 65% in each county are calculated and compared with the case when the country as a whole recovers 65% of all old corrugated board is collected but there exist no uniform target for each county. The conclusion is that from an efficiency point of view the recovery efforts should be concentrated to the highly populated and urbanized counties, and not be uniformly divided throughout the country. In the base case, the results suggest that the cost efficient county-specific recovery rates should range from 51 to 72%.     

印制电路板海洋环境试验与实验室环境试验相关性研究

目的研究机载电子设备印制电路板西沙海洋大气环境与实验室环境试验的相关性。方法在西沙海域环境下开展两种印制电路板的棚下暴露试验,暴晒试验时间为3年,同时在实验室开展盐雾试验,分别通过测试绝缘电阻、品质因数研究两种试验环境的相关性。结果将以绝缘电阻、品质因数为基准相关性评价结果进行平均,得出印制电路板实验室加速试验和自然暴露试验存在着强相关。两种样品的加速系数分别是3.5,5.15。结论建立了印制电路板在西沙海洋环境试验和实验室盐雾环境试验的相关性,可为后续西沙环境试验的加速处理提供依据。     

AutoCAD环境下压铸模模板图形库系统设计

采用AutoCAD及其内部语言AutoLISP ,在AutoCAD环境下 ,开发了压铸模模板图形库系统。利用本系统只需输入几个基本参数 ,即可生成压铸模模板图形及相应的零件图。     

液体浮选法回收废旧电脑线路板中铜的研究

本文用物理及化学方法研究了废旧电脑线路板的处理回收工艺.首先通过粉碎机将线路板破碎,在不同破碎时间和转速下,对筛分后各粒级的产物作累积产率曲线,得到理想的破碎时间和转速,然后利用液体对破碎的物料进行浮选,量化分析铜与非金属的解高程度,最后通过碘量法检测浮选后铜的回收情况.实验结果表明:在R＞2000 rpm的条件下线路板粉碎120s,采用三溴甲烷作浮选液,进行液体浮选,在dp＜0.074 mm的细粒级中,主要是玻璃纤维和碳化硅等非金属物质,线路板中的铜主要富集在0.84～0.125 mm粒级中,在0.84～0.42 mm粒级中,铜的回收率可达到97.89%.     

半敞开烟气排放的测试方法的研究

综合分析了除尘系统进入的烟尘量、排放方式、排放浓度等5个参数及其相互关系,根据在一定时间内进入除尘系统烟气烟尘的量;对除尘器进口和出口即百叶窗内各方向烟尘浓度的测试,利用物料平衡方程,确定百叶窗内各测点各方向测定的烟气烟尘浓度,确定半敞开排放烟气烟尘的排放浓度,笔者发现,外排烟尘浓度与百叶窗内侧向烟尘浓度具有良好的线性关系,百叶窗内侧向测定烟尘浓度能够反映半敞开烟气排放浓度。据此,提出以半敞开方式排放烟气烟尘的除尘系统烟气烟尘浓度测试方法,即侧向间接测试法。     

煤气管道带气抽堵盲板、开孔接管中的安全技术

生产或使用煤气的工业企业常常需要带气抽堵盲板和开孔接管作业。此类特殊作业存在中毒、着火、爆炸的危险性，为了安全、高效地实施此类作业，本文结合企业15年安全作业的实践，系统地总结了作业的方案制定、主要准备工作、作业过程的控制等方面措施和内容，并总结了相关安全技术问题的一些做法和体会。     

Recycling-oriented characterization of plastic frames and printed circuit boards from mobile phones by electronic and chemical imaging

This study characterizes the composition of plastic frames and printed circuit boards from end-of-life mobile phones. This knowledge may help define an optimal processing strategy for using these items as potential raw materials. Correct handling of such a waste is essential for its further “sustainable” recovery, especially to maximize the extraction of base, rare and precious metals, minimizing the environmental impact of the entire process chain. A combination of electronic and chemical imaging techniques was thus examined, applied and critically evaluated in order to optimize the processing, through the identification and the topological assessment of the materials of interest and their quantitative distribution. To reach this goal, end-of-life mobile phone derived wastes have been systematically characterized adopting both “traditional” (e.g. scanning electronic microscopy combined with microanalysis and Raman spectroscopy) and innovative (e.g. hyperspectral imaging in short wave infrared field) techniques, with reference to frames and printed circuit boards. Results showed as the combination of both the approaches (i.e. traditional and classical) could dramatically improve recycling strategies set up, as well as final products recovery.     

Evaluation of a recycling process for printed circuit board by physical separation and heat treatment

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) from discarded personal computer (PC) and hard disk drive were crushed by explosion in water or mechanical comminution in order to disintegrate the attached parts. More parts were stripped from PCB of PC, composed of epoxy resin; than from PCB of household appliance, composed of phenol resin.In an attempt to raise the copper grade of PCB by removing other components, a carbonization treatment was investigated. The crushed PCB without surface-mounted parts was carbonized under a nitrogen atmosphere at 873–1073 K. After screening, the char was classified by size into oversized pieces, undersized pieces and powder. The copper foil and glass fiber pieces were liberated and collected in undersized fraction. The copper foil was liberated easily from glass fiber by stamping treatment.As one of the mounted parts, the multi-layered ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), which contain nickel, were carbonized at 873 K. The magnetic separation is carried out at a lower magnetic field strength of 0.1 T and then at 0.8 T. In the +0.5 mm size fraction the nickel grade in magnetic product was increased from 0.16% to 6.7% and the nickel recovery is 74%.The other useful mounted parts are tantalum capacitors. The tantalum capacitors were collected from mounted parts. The tantalum-sintered bodies were separated from molded resins by heat treatment at 723–773 K in air atmosphere and screening of 0.5 mm. Silica was removed and 70% of tantalum grade was obtained after more than 823 K heating and separation.Next, the evaluation of Cu recycling in PCB is estimated. Energy consumption of new process increased and the treatment cost becomes 3 times higher comparing the conventional process, while the environmental burden of new process decreased comparing conventional process.The nickel recovery process in fine ground particles increased energy and energy cost comparing those of the conventional process. However, the environmental burden decreased than the conventional one.The process for recovering tantalum used more heat for the treatment and therefore the energy consumption increased by 50%, when comparing with conventional process. However, the market price for tantalum is very large; the profit for tantalum recovery is added. Also the environmental burden decreased by the recycling of tantalum recovery. Therefore, the tantalum recovery is very important step in the PCB recycling. If there is no tantalum, the consumed energy and treatment cost increase in the new process, though the environmental burden decreases.     

微电解/斜板沉淀/生物接触氧化处理印刷电路板废水

根据某印刷电路板企业生产废水的水质特点,对废水进行分类收集处理后,采用微电解/斜板沉淀/生物接触氧化工艺处理综合废水。工程运行结果表明,该工艺处理效果稳定,出水水质符合《污水综合排放标准》(GB 8978-1996)的一级排放标准。