Environmental Engineering Intersociety Board

In the early Fifties, sanitary engineering professional development activities were being undertaken principally by the Joint Committee for the Advancement of Sanitary Engineering. This Committee had representation from a number of organizations whose membership included sanitary engineers. Over the years, this group had been giving thought to expanding its activities to include greater recognition for the sanitary engineer. The result was the creation of the American Sanitary Engineering Intersociety Board in 1955, with the societies supporting the Joint Committee becoming the initial sponsoring organizations: American Public Health Association; American Society for Engineering Education; American Society of Civil Engineers; American Water Works Association; Water Pollution Control Federation.     

国家自然科学基金环境工程学科生态环境系统工程与风险控制学科方向发展探讨

当前我国生态环境问题复杂多变,环境污染治理面临新挑战、新机遇和新要求,亟需以系统观念、整体理念推动生态环境高质量发展。国家自然科学基金委环境工程学科开展学科优化布局与改革,设立“E1008区域与城市生态环境系统工程”和“E1009生态环境风险控制”学科方向。作为新兴交叉方向,需不断开展深入、全面探讨。立足于国家自然科学基金委环境工程学科顶层战略,诠释优化学科方向、解析学科内涵、阐述学科范式、凝炼科学问题,提出发展方向、总结创新机制,以推进学科有组织科研,构建学科创新高地,助力实现人与自然和谐共生的中国式现代化。     

2022年度环境工程学科国家自然科学基金申请与资助综述

总结了2022年度国家自然科学基金环境工程学科各类科学基金项目的申请、评审与资助情况,并对资助特征进行了分析。2022年度环境工程学科共计接收项目申请3172项,较2021年增幅11.6%。面上项目、青年科学基金项目、地区科学基金项目共计资助466项,重点项目资助6项,优秀青年科学基金项目资助8项,杰出青年科学基金项目资助5项,创新研究群体项目资助1项,重大项目资助1项。本年度环境工程学科切实落实科学基金深化改革任务,聚焦推动科研范式变革和提升凝练科学问题能力,加强科学基金项目全过程管理,推动了学科创新发展。     

Emission Standards for Particulates

Promulgation of standards of performance under Section 111 and national emission standards for hazardous pollutants under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act is the responsibility of the Emission Standards and Engineering Division of EPA. The problems encountered and the bases used are examined.     

UASB-好氧曝气-深度处理工艺处理聚酯废水和回用

介绍了气提-厌氧-好氧曝气-深度处理工艺在聚酯废水处理及回用技术中的实际应用,分析并总结了工程设计及运行的经验。实践表明,运用气提塔先对高浓度聚酯废水进行预处理,可以去除废水中大部分有机物,保证后续生化处理的稳定运行。经气提-厌氧-好氧曝气-深度处理后可以回用于生产过程中。该工艺具有运行稳定和处理效率高等优点,为企业带来了良好的经济效益和社会效益。     

APCA’s Role in a Cleaner Environment

David M. Benforado, retiring president of the Air Pollution Control Association, presented his farewell address at the President’s Luncheon on Tuesday, June 26. Mr. Benforado is a specialist in the Environmental Engineering and Pollution Control Department of the 3M Company, St. Paul.     

Overview and update of the Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Demonstration Program

The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program is now in its sixth year of demonstrating technologies applicable to Superfund sites. The SITE Program, conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, is intended to accelerate the use of new and innovative treatment processes as well as evaluate innovative measurement and monitoring techniques. Within the SITE Program, the Demonstration Program and the Emerging Technologies Program are responsible for innovative/alternative waste treatment technology development. Separate and parallel activities are progressing for development and evaluation of measuring and monitoring technologies as well as technology transfer operations.     

Industrial Pollution Prevention

The 1992 A&WMA Critical Review was authored by Harry Freeman and members of his staff at the Pollution Prevention Research Branch, Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Freeman presented the paper "Industrial Pollution Prevention," at the Critical Review session held during the 85th Air & Waste Management Association Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. Prepared discussions and invited comments presented during the session are published here, as well as closing remarks by Mr. Freeman.     

Overview and Update of the Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (site) Demonstration Program

The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program is now in its sixth year of demonstrating technologies applicable to Superfund sites. The SITE Program, conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, is intended to accelerate the use of new and innovative treatment processes as well as evaluate innovative measurement and monitoring techniques. Within the SITE Program, the Demonstration Program and the Emerging Technologies Program are responsible for innovative/ alternative waste treatment technology development. Separate and parallel activities are progressing for development and evaluation of measuring and monitoring technologies as well as technology transfer operations.     

CFD modelling of small particle dispersion: The influence of the turbulence kinetic energy in the atmospheric boundary layer

When considering the modelling of small particle dispersion in the lower part of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) using Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes simulations, the particle paths depend on the velocity profile and on the turbulence kinetic energy, from which the fluctuating velocity components are derived to predict turbulent dispersion. It is therefore important to correctly reproduce the ABL, both for the velocity profile and the turbulence kinetic energy profile.For RANS simulations with the standard k–ε model, Richards and Hoxey (1993. Appropriate boundary conditions for computational wind engineering models using the k–ε turbulence model. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 46–47, 145–153.) proposed a set of boundary conditions which result in horizontally homogeneous profiles. The drawback of this method is that it assumes a constant profile of turbulence kinetic energy, which is not always consistent with field or wind tunnel measurements. Therefore, a method was developed which allows the modelling of a horizontally homogeneous turbulence kinetic energy profile that is varying with height.By comparing simulations performed with the proposed method to simulations performed with the boundary conditions described by Richards and Hoxey (1993. Appropriate boundary conditions for computational wind engineering models using the k–ε turbulence model. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 46–47, 145–153.), the influence of the turbulence kinetic energy on the dispersion of small particles over flat terrain is quantified.     

Environmental information system for visualizing environmental impact assessment information

The Institute of Environmental Engineering at the University of Pannonia has undertaken the challenge to develop an online environmental information system. This system is able to receive and process the collected environmental data via Internet. The authors have attached importance to the presentation of the data and have included other comprehensible information for laymen as well in order to work out visualisation techniques that are expressive and attract attention for environmental questions through the developed information system. The ways of visualizing physical and chemical parameters of surface water and the effects of motorway construction were examined.     

Methodology for conducting screening-level ecological risk assessments for hazardous waste sites. Part III: exposure and effects assessment

The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has implemented a phased approach to ecological risk assessment (ERA). The first step in this process is a screening-level ERA at each facility. Basic to this approach was the development of ecologically based screening levels (EBSLs), defined as concentrations of chemicals in soil (or other media) that are not expected to produce any adverse effects on selected ecological receptors under chronic exposure conditions (analogous to preliminary remediation goals or soil screening levels). EBSLs are calculated by rearrangement of standard exposure equations to solve for soil concentration when chemical intake rate is set at a developed toxicity reference value (TRV). A TRV is defined as a chronic dose that is likely to be without appreciable risk of deleterious effects. This definition was extended to define TRVs and ultimately EBSLs for the functional groups used in the INEEL screening-level ERAS.     

壳聚糖对地表水中污染物的净化作用

综述了壳聚糖絮凝剂对地表水中悬浮物、天然有机物(NOM)、人工合成有机物(SOCs)、藻类的去除和对细菌的抑制及残留铝的削减作用。壳聚糖在地表水净化中具有一定的应用价值。     

Soil Remediation Techniques at Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites

The A&WMA Critical Review entitled “Soil Remediation Techniques at Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites” was presented by Ronald C. Sims, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Dr. Sims presented his review at the 83rd Air & Waste Management Association Annual Meeting, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in June 1990. Prepared discussions presented during the Critical Review session are published here, along with some closing remarks by Dr. Sims. Ronald Harkov, Chairman of the Critical Review Subcommittee of the Publications Committee, served as moderator of the 1990 A&WMA Critical Review session.     

Results of Treatment Evaluations of a Contaminated Synthetic Soil

Under Phase I of EPA’s Superfund soil treatability research program, which was conducted from April to November 1987, a surrogate soil containing a wide range of chemical contaminants typically occurring at Superfund sites was prepared and subjected to bench- or pilot-scale performance evaluations using the following treatment technologies: 1) physical separation/volume reduction (soil washing); 2) chemical treatment (KPEG); 3) thermal desorption; 4 ) incineration; and 5) stabilization/fixation. This report covers the formulation and development of the surrogate soil; it also highlights the results of the five treatment evaluations. Virtually all of the analytical data underlying this research were developed using EPA-SW846 methods. Detailed project reports covering the findings of each study are available through EPA’s Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio.     

环境科研论文撰写与发表的方法和策略

概要地介绍了中文环境科技核心期刊、美国《工程索引》（EI）和《科学引文索引》（SCI）收录中国科研论文的情况，以及两份知名英文环境期刊的论文评审标准。EI和SCI收录其来源期刊中英文摘要符合要求的论文。一篇好英文摘要有助于论文被国际环境期刊录用和增加论文的影响力。基于目前EI及SCI的来源期刊中缺少中文专业期刊，国内的环境科研人员可以先将其重要研发成果陆续在中文环境核心期刊上发表，形成系列文章，然后再融合这些文章，投寄英文国际环境期刊。这个策略可及时将研发成果公开发表，提高论文被国际期刊录用的几率，并增加中文环境核心期刊的知名度和声望。     

Cleaning of Stack Gases Containing High Concentrations of Nitrogen Oxides

Multistage gas absorption of 1–50% nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, and nitrogen tetraoxide from air with water or caustic solutions can produce colorless stack discharges. The rate at which NO is oxidized to No₂ in the gas phase and the solubility rate of No₂ in water or solution are highly concentration dependent so that reductions of stack gas concentrations of nitrogen oxides below approximately 200 ppm appear to be impractical. High efficiency absorption combined with elevated discharge of the cleaned, colorless gases is an acceptable method of air pollution control for many troublesome operations. Experiences in the fields of rocketry and nuclear energy are cited. Engineering modifications of metal pickling operations have been found especially helpful in producing effective control at an acceptable cost.     

Improvements in mixing operations of water treatment plants by use of a stable finite element model.

This work shows improvements made in mixing operations at water treatment plants, as a result of the hydrodynamic analysis of the mixing processes carried out by the use of a Finite Element Model. The code, developed in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of La Coru?a, Spain, solves the Navier-Stokes equations that rule viscous incompressible flow by using a Streamline Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) stabilization technique. The incorporation of the SUPG formulation leads to obtaining stable solutions for Reynolds numbers of a moderate order in connection with meshes that are not very refined. Some water treatment units present significant deficiencies in their design. The numerical evaluation of the flow avoids the high expenses of the trial-and-error processes involved in installing and removing the mixing mechanisms and those derived from the need to halt the water treatment processes. As a result, an optimum design of the treatment plant is obtained at a low cost.     

Remediation of Leaking USTs: A System for Accessing Case Histories and Related Documents

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulations require corrective action to be taken in response to a leaking underground storage tank (UST). Increasingly active state-run programs and the introduction of new cleanup technologies make UST corrective actions a multidisciplinary effort. The diversity of experience among personnel involved with this type of work has increased.

The EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory has made its databases available to the public to help support this diverse audience. Its Computerized On-Line Information System (COLIS) allows for the quick and simple retrieval of data relating to UST incidents, as well as other hazardous-waste-related information. This paper describes the development and features of two important COLIS subsystems: the Case History File and the Library Search System. Sample search sessions are used to illustrate features of particular interest to personnel involved with UST sites.