CaCO3类吸收剂净化焚烧烟气中HCI气体的研究

通常烟气中的酸性气体采用Ca（OH）2净化，然而当烟气温度在300℃以上时，Ca（OH）2喷入到烟气中将快速生成CaCO3。研究了两种CaCO3的反应特性，比较了200-900℃内CaCO3类吸收剂和Ca（OH）2与烟气中HCl气体的反应率，发现在600℃左右和800℃及以上，CaCO3类吸收剂的反应率与Ca（OH）2相当或更高；CaCO3类吸收剂、特别是改性CaCO3可替代Ca（OH）2作为干式净化HCl气体的吸收剂，合适的反应温度在600℃左右。     

钙基固硫剂对污泥和煤燃烧过程中SO2和NOx释放的影响

在O2气氛下,研究了煤与污泥2种燃料中添加4种钙基固硫剂( CaO、Ca(OH)2、CaCO3和白云石(CaCO3·MgCO3))后的SO2和NOx的释放特性.结果表明:(1)煤燃烧时SO2的释放曲线和NO较相似,呈现2个析出峰;污泥燃烧过程中SO2和NO的释放规律一致,35 s时烟气中SO2和NO瞬时质量浓度达到峰值...     

贝壳粉型煤固硫剂固硫的实验及机理研究

以贝壳粉作为型煤固硫剂,用正交实验的方法研究了影响贝壳粉固硫率的主要影响因素,在高温(1 150℃)时固硫效率达到56.6%,比CaCO3的固硫率提高40%以上,具有较好的高温固硫性。分析得知,贝壳的主要成分为CaCO3,其含钙量在40%左右,贝壳中又含有较高的Na等碱金属元素以及Fe,Al和Si等。用X射线粉末衍射法分析了高温(1 150℃)型煤样生成的灰渣,分析了贝壳粉作为型煤固硫剂在高温下具有较高固硫率的机理。发现CaAlSi2O8为主的复合晶体在高温下包裹在CaSO4的表面,抑制了CaSO4的热分解从而有效地提高了固硫率。     

MnO2对煤粉中CaO固硫效率影响机理

采用热力学计算和实验方法对钙硫比n（CaO）/n（S）=2.0条件下不同钙基固硫剂的固硫效果进行了比较,发现：CaO的固硫效率最高。以CaO为固硫剂,研究了添加剂MnO2对CaO固硫效果的影响。结果表明,加入MnO2可以提高CaO的固硫效率,且其含量为1%时对CaO固硫的促进效果最佳。这是因为煤粉燃烧过程中MnO2将逐级分解,分解产物依次为Mn2O3和Mn3O4,锰的氧化物一方面可以催化CaO的固硫反应,另一方面,Mn3O4本身也参与到固硫反应之中,生成MnSO4,从而促进钙基固硫剂的固硫效果。     

复合钙基固硫添加剂对煤固硫与燃烧的影响

利用程序升温燃烧反应技术,考察了高岭土复合的Ca O、Fe2O3-Ca O、Co O-Ca O添加剂对无烟煤的燃烧以及固硫的影响。实验发现,这些添加物质对煤的裂解产物的燃烧都具有促进作用,除了Fe2O3-Ca O-高岭土复合添加剂对煤焦的燃烧有一定阻碍作用之外,其余都具有对煤焦燃烧的促进作用,尤以Co O-Ca O-高岭土复合添加剂的效果最为显著。高岭土复合的硫酸钙本应具有较高的热稳定性,但受到高温下煤焦与CO的还原而分解,所以添加对煤焦具有明显催化燃烧作用的氧化钴,因减少了还原性气氛,稳定了硫酸钙产物而促进了固硫。     

天然矿物固硫剂及其对煤粉燃烧的影响

选取CaCO₃、Ca(OH)₂质量配比＝3∶2作为主固硫剂,用钙基固硫剂质量的2％的Na₂CO₃对其改性,利用蛭石作为固硫添加剂。在Ca/S＝2.25的情况下,通过固硫实验考察了主固硫剂以及添加剂的加入对固硫率的影响。实验结果表明,煤粉掺入该固硫剂在950℃下燃烧0.5 h,固硫率可以达到85％。还对添加不同固硫剂的煤粉进行热重实验,分析其对煤粉燃烧特性及动力学参数的影响。结果表明,固硫添加剂的加入不但能提高固硫率,还有利于煤的燃烧,减少灰渣的处理量。     

CaCO3类吸收剂净化焚烧烟气中HCl气体的研究

通常烟气中的酸性气体采用Ca(OH)2净化,然而当烟气温度在300 ℃以上时,Ca(OH)2喷入到烟气中将快速生成CaCO3.研究了两种CaCO3的反应特性,比较了200～900 ℃内CaCO3类吸收剂和Ca(OH)2与烟气中HCl气体的反应率,发现在600 ℃左右和800 ℃及以上,CaCO3类吸收剂的反应率与Ca(OH)2相当或更高;CaCO3类吸收剂、特别是改性CaCO3可替代Ca(OH)2作为干式净化HCl气体的吸收剂,合适的反应温度在600 ℃左右.     

燃煤钙基固砷剂的影响因素研究

利用电石渣、CaCO3、CaCO3·Ca(OH)3和Ca(OH)2作为燃煤钙基固砷剂,通过正交试验研究了固砷剂种类、固砷剂用量、燃烧温度及煤粒径对固砷效果的影响.结果表明,燃烧温度是影响燃煤固砷的最显著因素,最佳为1 050℃;钙基固砷剂中CaCO3和电石渣的固砷效果最好,其次是CaCO3·Ca(OH) 2,Ca(OH) 2的固砷效果最差;钙基固砷剂用量按Ca、S摩尔比计量为2.0、煤粒径为160～200目时,钙基固砷剂具有较好的固砷效果,而且具有固砷固硫的双重作用.     

钙基矿物固硫剂对不同煤种固硫效果的影响研究

对肥城煤（FC）、淮南煤（HN）和大同煤（DT）3种典型的高中低硫煤作了煤岩学分析,利用DTA、XRD、SEM、光学显微镜和粒度分析仪对钙基矿物添加剂及其固硫灰渣进行了矿物学研究.主要研究了温度、钙硫比、矿物添加剂等因素对煤种固硫率的影响.实验表明,相同的燃烧条件下,不同煤种对碳酸钙适应性有很大差异,淮南煤和肥城煤对碳酸钙的适应性明显好于大同煤,高硫煤更有利于950℃和1050℃下固硫;煤样自身固硫能力较差,碳酸钙固硫效果显著,当Ca/S=4,燃烧温度分别为1050、850和950℃时,肥城煤、大同煤和淮南煤固硫率分别达到最高值（89%、72%和89%）;膨润土促进大同煤固硫,却降低了肥城煤和淮南煤固硫率;钙基矿物添加剂协同作用能更有效地提高低硫煤的固硫效果,在1050℃时,可将固硫率由51%提高到74%.     

喷钙脱硫灰在高温条件下的稳定性研究

对喷钙脱硫灰在高温条件下的稳定性进行了研究，通过对不同CaSO3,CaO含量的脱硫灰在不同气氛下CaO3的分解规律来考察其稳定定性。结果表明，温度和灰中CaO对脱硫灰的稳定性有直接影响。CaO3的分解率随温度的升高而升高，随CaO含量的增多而降低；气氛中含有氧气对其稳定性有重要作用，氧气能使其生成性能稳定的CaSO4，因此，高温利用脱硫灰时，在1150℃以下，空气中仅有极微量的SO2放出，不会对环境造成危害。     

How the loss of forest fauna undermines the achievement of the SDGs

The human-driven loss of biodiversity has numerous ecological, social, and economic impacts at the local and global levels, threatening important ecological functions and jeopardizing human well-being. In this perspective, we present an overview of how tropical defaunation—defined as the disappearance of fauna as a result of anthropogenic drivers such as hunting and habitat alteration in tropical forest ecosystems—is interlinked with four selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We discuss tropical defaunation related to nutrition and zero hunger (SDG 2), good health and well-being (SDG 3), climate action (SDG 13), and life on land (SDG 15). We propose a range of options on how to study defaunation in future research and how to address the ongoing tropical defaunation crisis, including but not limited to recent insights from policy, conservation management, and development practice.     

The Governance of the Mitigation of the Baltic Sea Eutrophication: Exploring the Challenges of the Formal Governing System

This article focuses on the governing system of the mitigation of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. Policies and measures of the Baltic Sea coastal countries, the macro--regional (HELCOM) level, and the level of the European Union are described and governance challenges explicated. We found that the main challenges at different governance levels include: differences between coastal countries in terms of environmental conditions including environmental awareness, overlaps of policies between different levels, the lack of adequate spatial and temporal specification of policies, and the lack of policy integration. To help to meet these challenges, we suggest closer involvement of stakeholders and the public, the improvement of the interplay of institutions, and the introduction of a “primus motor” for the governance of the mitigation of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea.     

Effect of the pesticide lindane on the biomass of the microalgae Nannochloris oculata

This study assesses the growth of the microalgae Nannochloris oculata in the presence of lindane and the ability of N. oculata to remove lindane from media. Algal biomass increased with 0.1 and 0.5 mg L^?1 of lindane, and lindane concentrations in the media decreased. N. oculata removed 73% and 68.2% of lindane in the 0.1 and 0.5 mg L^?1 media concentrations, respectively. Algal biomass decreased to the level of the control at lindane concentrations greater than 2.5 mg L^?1, probably due to toxicity. N. oculata removed lindane from the media at concentrations lower than 1.0 mg L^?1. Thus, N. oculata may be useful for lindane bioremediation in contaminated aquatic systems.     

Investigation of the characteristics of the reflectivity of clouds

This paper investigates some of the reflectivity characteristics that clouds (when modelled as solid bodies) must exhibit to be compatible with observations that the reflecting surface of a cloud (i) appears almost equally bright across its face, (ii) is brightest when the cloud is opposite to the Sun but decreases in brightness as the cloud moves to other positions and (iii) increases in brightness with increasing optical thickness of the cloud in the observer's line of sight. These observations, respectively, are shown to imply that the peak value of the bidirectional total reflectivity from a cloud surface (i) increases in inverse proportion to the cosine of the angle between the Sun and the normal to the cloud surface, as the incident angle increases, (ii) appears to be directed back in the direction of the incident radiation, and (iii) increases as optical thickness of the cloud in the observer's line of sight increases. The results could have application in many fields (e.g. modelling diffuse radiance distributions for cloudy skies).     

底泥修复中温度对微生物活性和污染物释放的影响

通过分析底泥中微生物的酶活性以及污染物的释放规律,探讨了温度对河道底泥生物修复的影响.结果表明,底泥中微生物的脱氢酶、脲酶和磷酸酶的活性随着温度的升高而显著增大,但温度对纤维素酶的活性影响较小.4 ℃和10 ℃时底泥中污染物的释放量和微生物的酶活性均较低,水质较稳定;20～37 ℃时底泥中污染物的释放量明显增加,微生物的新陈代谢能力有较大提高,水体的自净能力较强.在各种因素的综合作用下,20～30 ℃是进行底泥生物修复的适宜环境温度.此外,当pH为9.0以及添加葡萄糖时,底泥中微生物均表现出较高的脱氢酶活性.     

Characterization and application of the enzyme peroxidase to the degradation of the mycotoxin DON

Deoxynivalenol (DON), one of the main mycotoxins found in food matrices, has high level of toxicity. This study aimed to characterize the peroxidase enzyme extracted from rice bran to be applied to the biodegradation of DON in order to evaluate the potential peroxidase (PO) from rice bran (RB) has to degrade DON in optimal conditions. Purification and recovery factors of PO extracted from RB and purified by three-phase partitioning were 5.7% and 50%, respectively. PO had the highest level of activity in the phosphate buffer 5 mM pH 5.5 in both crude and purified forms, whose reaction temperatures were 25°C and 10°C. At the end of production, purification and characterization steps, specific activities of the bran were 115.79 U mg^?1 and 4363 U g^?1. Reduction in the mycotoxin DON in optimal conditions determined for PO from RB was 20.3%, a promising result when the aim is to adequate mycotoxicological levels to foods.     

Determining the role of humic substances in the fate of pesticides in the environment

Abstract

The data presented in this paper emphasize that the behavior and fate of pesticides in the environment is influenced by humic substances. Various methods most frequently used for the characterization of humic substances are discussed. Both humic acid and fulvic acid can solubilize in water certain organic compounds and are important carriers of some pesticides in soil. Humic substances have the potential for promoting the nonbiological degradation of many pesticides. Several methods of bleaching humus color from drinking water, including chlorination, ozonation, and UV‐radiation, are described. Finally, the photochemical stability to UV‐radiation of certain pesticides in aqueous fulvic acid solution is discussed.     

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition: revisiting the question of the importance of the organic component

The organic component of atmospheric reactive nitrogen plays a role in biogeochemical cycles, climate and ecosystems. Although its deposition has long been known to be quantitatively significant, it is not routinely assessed in deposition studies and monitoring programmes. Excluding this fraction, typically 25-35%, introduces significant uncertainty in the determination of nitrogen deposition, with implications for the critical loads approach. The last decade of rainwater studies substantially expands the worldwide dataset, giving enough global coverage for specific hypotheses to be considered about the distribution, composition, sources and effects of organic-nitrogen deposition. This data collation and meta-analysis highlights knowledge gaps, suggesting where data-gathering efforts and process studies should be focused. New analytical techniques allow long-standing conjectures about the nature and sources of organic N to be investigated, with tantalising indications of the interplay between natural and anthropogenic sources, and between the nitrogen and carbon cycles.     

Industrial plastic on the southern beaches of the Arabian Gulf and the western beaches of the Gulf of Oman

The increasing production and use of plastic in the Arabian Gulf combined with shipping and waste disposal practices, have increased the concentration of plastic particles on the sea's surface and beaches. The objective of this investigation was to provide an assessment of the abundance, distribution, potential sources and significance of industrial plastic on the western beaches of the United Arab Emirates on the Arabian Gulf and on the eastern beaches on the Gulf of Oman. The abundance of stranded plastic pellets was highly uneven. By early 1992 alarming levels of fresh plastic pellets were noticed on the Arabian Gulf beaches of the UAE. Large numbers of 25 kg sacks of white plastic spherules manufactured by (SABIC) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia were washed ashore. When compared to the west coast on the Arabian Gulf, the east coast on the Gulf of Oman exhibited much lower levels of plastic pellets. When compared to other parts of the world, the beaches of the UAE on the Arabian Gulf are considered to be heavily polluted with industrial plastic.     

Assessment of the effects of the carbamazepine on the endogenous endocrine system of Daphnia magna

In the present study, the endocrine activity of the antiepileptic pharmaceutical carbamazepine (CBZ) in the crustacean Daphnia magna was assessed. To assess the hormonal activity of the drug, we exposed maternal daphnids and embryos to environmental relevant concentrations of CBZ (ranging from 10 to 200 μg/L) and to mixtures of CBZ with fenoxycarb (FEN; 1 μg/L). Chronic exposure to CBZ significantly decreased the reproductive output and the number of molts of D. magna at 200 μg/L. This compound induced the production of male offspring (12?±?1.7 %), in a non-concentration-dependent manner, acting as a weak juvenile hormone analog. Results showed that this substance, at tested concentrations, did not antagonize the juvenoid action of FEN. Further, CBZ has shown to be toxic to daphnid embryos through maternal exposure interfering with their normal gastrulation and organogenesis stages but not producing direct embryo toxicity. These findings suggest that CBZ could act as an endocrine disruptor in D. magna as it decreases the reproductive output, interferes with sex determination, and causes development abnormality in offspring. Therefore, CBZ could directly affect the population sustainability.