分步沉淀法处理酸性矿山废水

采用分步沉淀工艺处理酸性矿山废水,考察了工艺条件对废水中有价金属元素回收效果的影响。实验结果表明:Ca(OH)_2为适宜的废水pH调节剂;调节废水pH至4.00左右并投加0.05 mL/L的H_2O_2,可首先去除Fe~(2+)及Fe~(3+),得到富Fe渣(w(Fe)=51.00%);调节废水pH至6.00~6.50,先投加50 mg/L的Na_2S,去除废水中的Cu~(2+),获得富Cu渣(w(Cu)=10.89%),再将Na_2S的投加量增至100 mg/L,去除废水中的Zn与Mn,获得富Zn-Mn渣(w(Cu)=2.37%,w(Mn)=6.79%,w(Pb)=1.61%);进一步调节废水pH至8.40,可去除剩余的Zn、Mn及其他重金属。分步沉淀工艺处理后的废水可达标排放,产生的富Fe渣、富Cu渣及富Zn-Mn渣可直接出售或具有利用价值。分步沉淀工艺可实现有价金属元素的高效回收,大幅度降低废水处理的实际成本,值得工程应用与推广。     

添加CaO对燃煤重金属元素富集效果的影响

选取CaO作为吸附剂,探究了不同燃烧温度下添加CaO对重金属元素在燃煤灰渣中富集效果的影响规律。实验结果表明:添加CaO对重金属元素Cr未起到富集作用,而对Mn,Ni,Cu,Zn,As,Cd,Pb 7种重金属元素的富集效果显著;随燃烧温度的升高,CaO对各赋存形态的Mn,Ni,Cu,Zn,As的富集效果先变好而后变差,对各赋存形态的Cd和Pb的富集效果越来越好;CaO添加比(预处理后的CaO颗粒与预处理后的原煤的质量比)越大,CaO对Mn,Ni,Cu,Zn,As,Cd,Pb的富集效果越好,燃烧温度为850℃时的最佳CaO添加比为4%。     

硫酸锰渣污染土壤中重金属的形态分布及生物活性

测定了硫酸锰渣污染土壤中Cu,Zn,Cd,Pb,Mn的总量和各形态含量.结果表明重金属总量远超过环境背景值和土壤环境二级标准.重金属各形态分布特征:Cu,有机态>残渣态>铁锰氧化态>碳酸盐态>可交换态;Zn,残渣态>铁锰氧化态>有机态>碳酸盐态>可交换态;Cd,铁锰氧化态>可交换态>碳酸盐态>残渣态>有机态;Pb,铁锰氧化态>残渣态>有机态>碳酸盐态>可交换态;Mn,铁锰氧化态>残渣态>可交换态>有机态>碳酸盐态.重金属的生物可利用性系数和迁移系数均为Cd>Mn>Pb>Cu>Zn.     

微纳米气液分散体系氧化脱除天然气汽车尾气中的复合污染物

采用微纳米气液分散体系对天然气汽车尾气中的复合污染物进行氧化脱除.实验结果表明:CH4、NO和SO2的脱除率均随着吸收液中NaCl、十二烷基硫酸钠(SDS)、Fe2+和Mn2+投加量的增加而先升后降,在酸性和碱性条件下均随着pH的增大呈先升后降的趋势;进气CH4、NO、SO2质量浓度为429,267,571 mg/m3...     

气浮法处理含油废水的试验研究

采用溶气气浮模拟装置，系统研究了溶气压力、溶气量、气油比、矿化度、pH值、混凝剂、废水含油量及水温等诸多因素对气浮效率的影响，指出了提高溶气压力，增加溶气量，控制废水pH值(pH=6～8)和矿化度(3％左右)，加入适量混凝剂(PAC：50～70mg／L)，可取得较好的除油效率。     

D401与N-117负载 Fe（Ⅱ）非均相Fenton法催化降解苯酚

分别采用D401和N-117负载Fe（Ⅱ）制备非均相Fenton催化剂,探讨两种催化剂在不同初始溶液pH、初始H₂O₂质量浓度和保存条件下,催化降解苯酚的效果和铁溶出情况。结果表明：两种催化剂均能拓展Fenton反应pH范围;D401负载Fe（Ⅱ）催化苯酚降解速率较快,苯酚降解率随初始溶液pH升高而下降,溶出铁催化的均相Fenton反应是苯酚降解的主要原因;N-117负载Fe（Ⅱ）催化剂苯酚降解速率随初始溶液pH升高而下降,非均相Fenton反应是主要反应过程;初始H₂O₂质量浓度升高能使D401负载Fe（Ⅱ）的溶出总铁质量浓度显著升高,但对N-117负载Fe（Ⅱ）影响很小;水中较高的DO能显著降低两种催化剂的苯酚降解效果。     

D401与N-117负载Fe(Ⅱ)非均相Fenton法催化降解苯酚

分别采用D401和N-117负载Fe(Ⅱ)制备非均相Fenton催化剂,探讨两种催化剂在不同初始溶液pH、初始H_2O_2质量浓度和保存条件下,催化降解苯酚的效果和铁溶出情况。结果表明:两种催化剂均能拓展Fenton反应pH范围;D401负载Fe(Ⅱ)催化苯酚降解速率较快,苯酚降解率随初始溶液pH升高而下降,溶出铁催化的均相Fenton反应是苯酚降解的主要原因;N-117负载Fe(Ⅱ)催化剂苯酚降解速率随初始溶液pH升高而下降,非均相Fenton反应是主要反应过程;初始H_2O_2质量浓度升高能使D401负载Fe(Ⅱ)的溶出总铁质量浓度显著升高,但对N-117负载Fe(Ⅱ)影响很小;水中较高的DO能显著降低两种催化剂的苯酚降解效果。     

营养物质协同真菌修复石油烃污染土壤

研究了生物强化结合生物刺激对石油烃污染土壤的修复效果及对修复后土壤pH、土壤呼吸作用的影响。结果表明：向石油烃污染土壤中添加菌液量为20%(w,下同)的真菌杂色曲霉(Aspergillus versicolor)、10%的蔗糖,修复30 d时总石油烃(TPH)降解率达55.63%;添加7%的酒石酸修复30 d时,TPH降解率为42.9%。添加蔗糖和酒石酸修复后,土壤pH均呈下降趋势,土壤CO₂释放量均增大。石油烃污染土壤颗粒紧致密实,土壤颗粒之间孔隙被堵塞;经生物修复后土壤孔隙结构明显增大,表面粗糙、疏松,呼吸作用增强。     

改进电动力技术去除铅锌矿尾砂中的重金属

采用改进的电动力技术去除铅锌矿尾砂中的Pb,Zn,Cu。研究了铅锌矿尾砂中重金属在改进电动力技术处理情况下的去除情况。实验结果表明,经过7d的电动力实验,Pb、Zn和Cu的总去除率分别为34％,33％,37％,其中酸溶态去除效果显著,分别达到66％,86％,81％。Pb和Cu的铁锰氧化物结合态去除率为39％和42％,其他形态去除率较低,在10％左右。     

模拟酸雨对土壤修复中重金属淋溶特征及土壤持水能力的影响

以磷酸二氢钾（PDP）钝化后的重金属污染土壤为研究对象,通过室内土柱淋溶和土壤吸水实验,考察pH为3.1、4.6和5.1的模拟酸雨对污染土壤修复过程中重金属淋溶特征及土壤持水能力的影响。实验结果表明：PDP处理显著增加了淋出液的pH、电导率、TOC和正磷酸盐态磷（ZP）含量,在淋溶初期显著降低了淋出液的Cu、Cd和Pb含量,但在淋溶后期增大了Pb含量;土壤持水量与电导率、pH、TOC和ZP含量呈现极显著负相关性;土壤修复过程中,有机质的淋失、盐分含量及pH的增大可引起土壤持水能力的减弱。     

Integrated waste management--looking beyond the solid waste horizon

Waste as a management issue has been evident for over four millennia. Disposal of waste to the biosphere has given way to thinking about, and trying to implement, an integrated waste management approach. In 1996 the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) defined 'integrated waste management' as 'a framework of reference for designing and implementing new waste management systems and for analysing and optimising existing systems'. In this paper the concept of integrated waste management as defined by UNEP is considered, along with the parameters that constitute integrated waste management. The examples used are put into four categories: (1) integration within a single medium (solid, aqueous or atmospheric wastes) by considering alternative waste management options, (2) multi-media integration (solid, aqueous, atmospheric and energy wastes) by considering waste management options that can be applied to more than one medium, (3) tools (regulatory, economic, voluntary and informational) and (4) agents (governmental bodies (local and national), businesses and the community). This evaluation allows guidelines for enhancing success: (1) as experience increases, it is possible to deal with a greater complexity; and (2) integrated waste management requires a holistic approach, which encompasses a life cycle understanding of products and services. This in turn requires different specialisms to be involved in the instigation and analysis of an integrated waste management system. Taken together these advance the path to sustainability.     

Local waste management constraints and waste administrators in China

Local level waste authorities and their officials directly interact and serve the people on behalf of higher governments. Given the influential positions they have on the quality of life of the citizens, these local waste authorities deserve more attention from researchers. This study throws light on the factors related to local waste management and administrators that have caused waste management failures in three mainland Chinese cities. Based on a survey conducted in 2002-2003, it was found that waste administrators in these cities are not professionally competent in their jobs and they are also not confident in using economic instruments to address waste management issues in their cities. These local waste authorities are generally under-funded, and funding politics has to some extent eroded the incentives to carry out the instructions of higher waste authorities. The community at large also does not respect local waste management work. The residents frequently litter, are unobservant of waste collection times and are unwilling to pay for waste collection service. All of these are handicapping environmentally sound waste management.     

Household hazardous waste: composition of paint waste.

'Paint waste', a part of the 'household hazardous waste', amounting to approximately 5 tonnes was collected from recycling stations in two Danish cities. Sorting and analyses of the waste showed paint waste comprised approximately 65% of the mass, paint-like waste (cleaners, fillers, etc.) comprised 15-25% and foreign items comprised 10-20%.Water-based paint was the dominant part of the paint waste. The chemical composition of the paint waste and the paint-like waste was characterized by an analysis of 27 substances in seven waste fractions. The content of critical substances was low and the paint waste was less contaminated with heavy metals than was the ordinary household waste. This may suggest that households no longer need to source-segregate their paint if the household waste is incinerated, since the presence of a small quantity of solvent-based paint will not be harmful when incinerated. Allowing household paint waste to be collected with ordinary household waste is expected to reduce the cost of handling household hazardous waste, since paint waste in Denmark comprises the major fraction of household hazardous waste.     

Winery waste recycling through anaerobic co-digestion with waste activated sludge

In this study biogas and high quality digestate were recovered from winery waste (wine lees) through anaerobic co-digestion with waste activated sludge both in mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. The two conditions studied showed similar yields (0.40 m³/kgCOD_fed) but different biological process stability: in fact the mesophilic process was clearly more stable than the thermophilic one in terms of bioprocess parameters.The resulting digestates showed good characteristics for both the tested conditions: heavy metals, dioxins (PCDD/F), and dioxin like bi-phenyls (PCBs) were concentred in the effluent if compared with the influent because of the important reduction of the solid dry matter, but remained at levels acceptable for agricultural reuse. Pathogens in digestate decreased. Best reductions were observed in thermophilic condition, while at 37 °C the concentration of Escherichia coli was at concentrations level as high as 1000 UFC/g. Dewatering properties of digestates were evaluated by means of the capillary suction time (CST) and specific resistance to filtration (SRF) tests and it was found that a good dewatering level was achievable only when high doses of polymer (more than 25 g per kg dry solids) were added to sludge.     

Measuring waste prevention

The Waste Framework Directive (WFD-2008/98/EC) has set clear waste prevention procedures, including reporting, reviewing, monitoring and evaluating. Based on the WFD, the European Commission and will offer support to Member States on how to develop waste prevention programmes through guidelines and information sharing on best practices. Monitoring and evaluating waste prevention activities are critical, as they constitute the main tools to enable policy makers, at the national and local level, to build their strategic plans and ensure that waste prevention initiatives are effective and deliver behaviour change. However, how one can measure something that is not there, remains an important and unresolved research question. The paper reviews and attempts to evaluate the methods that are being used for measuring waste prevention and the impact of relevant implemented activities at the household level, as the available data is still limited.     

Influence of assumptions about household waste composition in waste management LCAs

This article takes a detailed look at an uncertainty factor in waste management LCA that has not been widely discussed previously, namely the uncertainty in waste composition. Waste composition is influenced by many factors; it can vary from year to year, seasonally, and with location, for example. The data publicly available at a municipal level can be highly aggregated and sometimes incomplete, and performing composition analysis is technically challenging. Uncertainty is therefore always present in waste composition. This article performs uncertainty analysis on a systematically modified waste composition using a constructed waste management system. In addition the environmental impacts of several waste management strategies are compared when applied to five different cities. We thus discuss the effect of uncertainty in both accounting LCA and comparative LCA. We found the waste composition to be important for the total environmental impact of the system, especially for the global warming, nutrient enrichment and human toxicity via water impact categories.     

European Union waste management strategy and the importance of biogenic waste

In the European Union (EU), waste management is almost totally regulated by EU directives, which supply a framework for national regulations. The main target in view of sustainability is the prevention of direct disposal of reactive waste in landfills. The tools to comply with these principles are recycling and material recovery as well as waste incineration with energy recovery for final inertization. The adaptation of the principles laid down in EU directives is an ongoing process. A number of countries have already enacted respective national regulations and their realization shows that recycling and incineration are not in competition but are both essential parts of integrated waste management systems. In the EU, the amount of residual waste available for energy recovery can supply approximately 1% of the primary energy demand. About 50% of the energy inventory of municipal solid waste (MSW) in most EU countries is of biogenic origin, and MSW is to the same extent to be looked upon as regenerative fuel. Hence part of the CO₂ released from waste incineration is climate neutral. In the EU, this share could produce savings of the order of 1% of annual CO₂ emissions if energy from MSW replaced that derived from fossil fuel.