Bhopal disaster—a personal experience

Bhopal Gas Tragedy was the worst industrial accident in the world where several thousand persons lost their lives. It occurred at the Union Carbide plant located inside the city of Bhopal and close to the railway station, at midnight of December 2-3, 1984 due to the leakage of MIC gas which took the local sleeping and floating population unawares.

This paper describes the experience of a transit passenger who reached the Bhopal Railway Station by train at about the same time when the deadly gas leakage occurred.     

2500 m3多级内循环(MIC)厌氧反应器在柠檬酸废水处理工程中的应用

MIC反应器是在UASB反应器的基础上发展起来的第三代厌氧反应器,它具有效率高、能耗低、投资少、占地省等优点。作者所在单位自行研制、安装、调试的生产规模2500m3MIC反应器用于处理高浓度柠檬酸生产废水,经过两年多的启动和实际运行,在水力停留时间12.5h,COD有机负荷12kg·m-3·d-1时,COD去除率仍始终在90%左右。     

The Bhopal gas leak: Analyses of causes and consequences by three different models

The Bhopal Gas Leak, India 1984 is the largest chemical industrial accident ever. Haddon's and Berger's models for injury analysis have been tested, together with the project planning tool Logical Framework Approach (LFA).

The three models provide the same main message: That irrespectively of the direct cause to the leakage, it is only two parties that are responsible for the magnitude of the disaster: Union Carbide Corporation and the Governments of India and Madhya Pradesh. The models give somewhat different images of the process of the accident.

Models developed for analysis of injuries can be used for analysing a complicated mega accident like the Bhopal gas leak, although different models might stress different aspects.     

油气田微生物腐蚀与防护研究进展

结合笔者近年来所做的油气田微生物腐蚀领域的工作,以硫酸盐还原菌和铁氧化菌为代表性腐蚀性微生物,系统分析了油气田环境中微生物腐蚀机制及其影响因素。微生物腐蚀行为和机制与微生物的种类、材料、环境因素等密切相关,系统地统计和分析油气田腐蚀性微生物的种类和种群结构是微生物腐蚀研究基础。同时还探讨了缓蚀剂、杀菌剂及缓蚀杀菌剂在油田微生物腐蚀控制过程中存在的问题,最后针对油气田微生物腐蚀与防护研究现状,提出了一些思考和建议。     

乙醛废水处理工程实例

某化工厂以酒精氧化法制得乙醛,该厂原有一套污水处理设施,但系统出水难以达标。经改造后,该废水经过冷却到35～39℃、加碱中和至pH值为7左右,进入内循环厌氧反应器(MIC)处理,在厌氧进水为ρ(CODCr)约3200mg·L-1,HRT为24h时,CODCr去除率为94%,出水进入推流式好氧池,采用微孔曝气器曝气,HRT为36h,好氧出水ρ(CODCr)<100mg·L-1。     

Determination of minimum inhibitory concentration and half maximal inhibitory concentration of antibiotics and their degradation products to assess the eco-toxicological potential

Abstract

Numerous studies have been reported on today’s ubiquitous presence of antibiotics in surface waters causing the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Advanced water treatment procedures aim at the complete prevention and elimination of antibiotics from entering natural water bodies. In this study, photoinduced degradation processes using UVC-irradiation were applied toward selected fluoroquinolone, tetracycline, macrolide, and sulfonamide antibiotics. Photodegradation products were elucidated using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). Rate constants and quantum efficiencies were determined for the active substances and their photo-transformation products. As a measure of ecotoxicity, minimum inhibitory and half-maximal inhibitory concentrations were determined against the Gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens and the Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis in a standard assay format. These values were further recorded as a function of UV exposure time. The irradiation time-dependent increase of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values agreed well with the kinetic models. After 10?min of irradiation, the compound solutions ceased to inhibit bacterial cell growth, indicating removal of the pharmaceutical activity. These findings were found in agreement with quantitative structure–activity relationship analysis. The combination of microbiological activity testing, molecular structure analysis, chemical kinetic investigation, and quantitative structure–activity relationship models proved to be able to predict irradiation times and evaluate potential ecotoxicological hazard of the irradiated drugs.     

MIC厌氧反应器在500m^3/d柠檬酸废水处理工程中的应用

MIC反应器是在UASB反应器的基础上发展起来的第三代厌氧反应器,它具有效率高、能耗低、投资少、占地省等优点。作者所在单位自行研制、安装、调试的生产规模500 m^3MIC反应器用于处理高浓度柠檬酸生产废水,采用城市污水处理厂的絮状污泥进行启动,经过两个多月的调试和实际运行,在水力停留时间20小时,容积负荷8 kgCOD/（m^3·d）时,COD去除率仍始终在92%左右,并转入稳定运行。     

乙醛废水处理的工程实例

溧阳市某化工厂以乙醇氧化法生产乙醛,该厂原有一套污水处理站,但系统出水难以达标.在改造过程中,利用原有污水处理系统,在调节池后新建多级内循环厌氧(MIC)反应器.该废水经过冷却到35～39℃、在调节池加营养和碱调节pH为7左右,MIC反应器进水CODCr约为3200mg/L、HRT为24h时,CODCr去除率为85%以上,MIC出水进入推流式好氧池,采用微孔曝气器曝气,HRT为36h,好氧出水CODCr小于100mg/L.该工艺运行稳定,为乙醛化工企业处理该废水提供一条新途径.     

MIC反应器处理酒精废水的污泥颗粒化研究

颗粒污泥是厌氧反应器稳定运行和高效能的载体。以MIC厌氧反应器处理高浓度酒精废水为例,采用城市污水厂的消化污泥启动MIC反应器,其培养过程分为3个阶段:驯化启动期、颗粒污泥出现期和颗粒污泥成熟期。污泥完成颗粒化后,MIC反应器COD容积负荷稳定在20kg·m-3·d-1,COD去除率为90%以上。并讨论了颗粒污泥的粒径分布、沉降性能等性质,为培养国产的厌氧颗粒污泥积累经验。     

阳离子染料废水的脱色方法及其机理的研究

本文以阳离子染料碱性品红为代表，采用ＰＦＡＳ混凝剂对其水溶液进行脱色处理，在处理过程加入适量的十二烷基苯磺酸钠做助剂，脱色率最高可达９９％以上。本文还研究ｐＨ值及盐效应对脱色率的影响。脱色机理的研究结果表明：阳离子染料在水溶液中与十二烷基苯磺酸钠之间发生化学作用，靠氢键及静电键结合，使原来带正电荷的阳离子染料粒子转变为带负电荷的粒子，再与带正电荷的ＰＦＡＳ混凝剂的胶体作用产生絮凝沉淀。