浅析危险废物焚烧处置项目废水的零排放

分析了危险废物焚烧处置项目废水处理后的用水点,简介了4个项目对危险废物处置的焚烧、物化及填埋等技术,阐述了危险废物焚烧处置产生废水的零排放技术,并提出了相关建议。     

炼化油泥回转窑焚烧工艺设计

焚烧是目前最彻底的污泥处置方式。回转窑焚烧炉是一种适应性很强的焚烧炉,也是处理含油污泥的主要选择之一。结合某炼化企业含油污泥回转窑焚烧工程,详细介绍了该焚烧工程的工艺设计。     

浅谈危险废物焚烧进料系统的形式及其应用

随着危险废物焚烧处置行业的快速发展,进入投产运行阶段的危险废物项目越来越多,焚烧处置系统装备在使用过程中也暴露出各种问题,设计、处置单位越来越多地从实用性、稳定性、经济性等方面审视焚烧系统各环节的工艺装备,期望达到焚烧线运行稳定、连续性好的目标,并最终实现较好的效益。文章围绕危险废物处置系统中的进料单元,比较分析各种进料方式的优缺点及应用情况,并结合实际运行中遇到的问题,对进料系统的选择提出应用建议。     

危险废物回转窑焚烧系统工程概述

介绍了回转窑焚烧系统成功应用于危险废物处置的工程实例,从工艺流程、二噁英有效控制、运行自动化等方面阐述了回转窑焚烧工艺集中处置危险废物的成熟性、可靠性。     

污泥干化焚烧技术进展及我国典型工程概况

污泥干化焚烧处置技术是一种较为成熟的污泥处置技术,该工艺路线已逐渐应用于市政污泥的处置工程,其中干化系统和焚烧系统是最核心的部分,其性能及运行状况都对整个污泥处置过程影响很大。文章介绍了目前污泥干化处置技术中采用最多的干化技术,同时以我国的几个典型工程为例,阐述了污泥干化焚烧的工艺流程。     

上海蓝鸟环境科技发展有限公司

钱建中,硕士研究生学历。从事环保固废焚烧处置工作16年,2001年筹建了专业从事固体废弃物焚烧处置工程的上海金州环境工程有限公司,任董事、副总经理;2008年他组建了上海蓝鸟环境科技发展有限公司,担任董事、总经理,     

污泥资源化处置技术研究进展

随着污泥量的增长,污泥的处置变得日益重要,处置得不好就会对环境造成再一次污染.污泥土地利用、焚烧、制作建筑材料等是把污泥作为资源进行再利用,既能妥善的处置污泥,又能获得一定的经济和社会效益,因此这些处置方法越来越受到人们的重视.主要介绍了污泥土地利用、焚烧、制作建筑材料等资源化处置方法的国内外研究进展,以期掌握污泥处置的最新动向,促进我国污泥资源化的发展.     

危险废物焚烧处置的理论和实践

危险废物的焚烧处置是按化学当量与氧发生燃烧反应。组合式焚烧炉（回转窑、二燃室和炉排炉）能够将各种危险废物进行焚烧处置。危险废物先在回转窑内经过缺氧、热解干馏,生成的可燃气体和废渣分别在二燃室内和炉排上进行高温燃烧和持续燃烧,使焚烧残渣的热灼减率、燃烧效率和有机物的焚毁去除率等技术性能指标达到国家标准的要求。高温燃烧可以将烟气中的有毒有害物质分解,持续燃烧可使废渣燃尽烧透。在对危险废物进行元素成分分析的基础上,进行焚烧工艺设计、技术参数计算,并举例说明。     

医疗废物、危险废物集中焚烧处置工程建设技术要求发布

国家环保总局于2004年1月19日发布了《医疗废物集中焚烧处置工程建设技术要求》(试行)和《危险废物集中焚烧处置工程建设技术要求》(试行)。“要求”对医疗废物、危险废物集中焚烧处置工程建设技术术语做出了界定。“要求”对医疗废物产生量、特性分析及焚烧处理适用范围;医疗、危险废物焚烧厂总体设计;医疗、危险废物接收、分析鉴别、贮存、输送;医疗、危险废物焚烧处置系统;配套(公用)工程;环境保护与安全;工程施工及验收;运营管理等方面都做出了明确的规定。其中明确了医疗废物产生量的计算方法,规定了危险废物特性分析鉴别的内容。在医…     

医疗废物焚烧处置企业环境管理分析与对策研究

<正>针对我国医疗废物焚烧处置企业落实规范化环境管理的迫切需求,依据上海地区在医疗废物焚烧处置工作的环境管理实践经验,探讨医疗废物焚烧处置企业环境管理的基本内容,以期为我国其他地区医疗废物处置企业的环境管理工作提供借鉴。1974年在墨西哥召开的"资源利用、环境与发展战略方针"专题研讨会上首次正式提出"环境管理"概念,此次会议形成了三点共识:全人类的一切基本需要应当得到满足;要进行发展以满足基本需要,但不能超出生物圈的容许极限;协调这     

Conversion of temperate forests into heaths: Role of ecosystem disturbance and ericaceous plants

Fire and logging in nutrient-poor temperate forests with certain ericaceous understory plants may convert the forests into heaths. The process of disturbance-induced heath formation is documented by using examples ofCalluna in western Europe,Kalmia in Newfoundland, andGaultheria (salal) in coastal British Columbia. In a cool, temperate climate, rapid vegetative growth ofCalluna, Kalmia, and salal following disturbance results in increasing organic accumulation (paludification), nutrient sequestration, soil acidification, and allelochemicals. These are thought to be the main reasons to conifer regeneration failure in disturbed habitats. If continuation in forest is a land-use objective, then temperate forests with an ericaceous understory should not be logged unless effective silvicultural methods are devised to control the ericaceous plants and restore forest regeneration. Preharvest vegetation control may be considered as an option. Failure to control the understory plants may lead to a long-term vegetation shift, from forest to heathland, particularly in nutrient-poor sites. Successful methods of controllingKalmia andGaultheria, however, have yet to be developed. While theKalmia- andGaultheria- dominated heathlands are undesirable in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, a wide range ofCalluna heathlands of western Europe are being conserved as natural and seminatural vegetation.     

Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress

Urban ecological studies, including focus on cities, suburbs, and exurbs, while having deep roots in the early to mid 20th century, have burgeoned in the last several decades. We use the state factor approach to highlight the role of important aspects of climate, substrate, organisms, relief, and time in differentiating urban from non-urban areas, and for determining heterogeneity within spatially extensive metropolitan areas. In addition to reviewing key findings relevant to each state factor, we note the emergence of tentative "urban syndromes" concerning soils, streams, wildlife and plants, and homogenization of certain ecosystem functions, such as soil organic carbon dynamics. We note the utility of the ecosystem approach, the human ecosystem framework, and watersheds as integrative tools to tie information about multiple state factors together. The organismal component of urban complexes includes the social organization of the human population, and we review key modes by which human populations within urban areas are differentiated, and how such differentiation affects environmentally relevant actions. Emerging syntheses in land change science and ecological urban design are also summarized. The multifaceted frameworks and the growing urban knowledge base do however identify some pressing research needs.     

Using Paleo Reconstructions to Improve Streamflow Forecast Lead Time in the Western United States

In water stressed regions, water managers are exploring new horizons that would help in long‐range streamflow forecasts. Oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations have been shown to influence streamflow variability. In this study, long‐lead time streamflow forecasts are made using a multiclass kernel‐based data‐driven support vector machine (SVM) model. The extended streamflow records based on tree ring reconstructions were used to provide a longer time series data. Reconstructed data were used from 1658 to 1952 and the instrumental record was used from 1953 to 2007. Reconstructions for oceanic‐atmospheric oscillations included the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, and North Atlantic Oscillation. Streamflow forecasts using all four oscillations were made with one‐year to five‐year lead times for 21 gages in the western United States. This is the first study that uses both instrumental and reconstructed data of oscillations in SVM model to improve streamflow forecast lead time. SVM model was able to provide “satisfactory” to “very good” forecasts with one‐ to five‐year lead time for the selected gages. The use of all the oscillation indices helped in achieving better predictability compared to using individual oscillations. The SVM modeling results are better when compared with multiple linear regression model forecasts. The findings are statistical in nature and are expected to be useful for long‐term water resources planning and management.     

Neighbourhood characteristics and urban gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area: staffing and voluntarism,food production,infrastructure, and sustainability practices

Urban gardens are important sources of sustenance for communities with limited access to food. Hence, this study focuses on food production in gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area in Northwest Ohio. We administered surveys to 150 garden managers from November 2014 to February 2015 in our attempt to better understand how neighbourhood racial composition and poverty levels are related to staffing and voluntarism, food production and distribution, the development of infrastructure, and the adoption of sustainability practices in urban gardens. The results from 30 gardens are presented in this paper. We used Geographic Information Systems to map the gardens and overlay the map with 2010 census data so that we could conduct demographic analyses of the neighbourhoods in which the gardens were located. Though the gardens were small – two acres or less – up to 46 varieties of food were grown in a single garden. Gardens also operated on small budgets. Food from the gardens was gifted or shared with friends, family, and neighbourhood residents. Gardens in predominantly minority neighbourhoods tended to have fewer institutional partners, less garden infrastructure, and had adopted fewer sustainable practices than gardens in predominantly White neighbourhoods. Nonetheless, residents of predominantly minority and high-poverty neighbourhoods participated in garden activities and influenced garden operations. Volunteering and staffing were racialised and gendered.     

Predicting deer-vehicle collisions in an urban area

Collisions with deer and other large animals are increasing, and the resulting economic costs and risks to public safety have made mitigation measures a priority for both city and wildlife managers. We created landscape models to describe and predict deer-vehicle collision (DVCs) within the City of Edmonton, Alberta. Models based on roadside characteristics revealed that DVCs occurred frequently where roadside vegetation was both denser and more diverse, and that DVCs were more likely to occur when the groomed width of roadside right-of-ways was smaller. No DVCs occurred where the width of the vegetation-free or manicured roadside buffer was greater than 40 m. Landscape-based models showed that DVCs were more likely in more heterogeneous landscapes where road densities were lower and speed limits were higher, and where non-forested vegetation such as farmland was in closer proximity to larger tracts of forest. These models can help wildlife and transportation managers to identify locations of high collision frequency for mitigation. Modifying certain landscape and roadside habitats can be an effective way to reduce deer-vehicle collisions.     

MANGANESE CYCLE IN IMPOUNDMENT WATER

Manganese entering impounded water will undergo a cyclic transformation. Oxidation precipitates manganese from top waters. At the bottom of the lake, biological activity will render manganese soluble by both intracellular as well as extracellular activity. The study was made to demonstrate that biological reduction and transformation, organometallic complexation, together with the presence of carbon dioxide and the lowering of pH all have some effect on the solubility of manganese. Dissolved manganese may be brought back to top waters during the lake overturn and therefore deteriorates the water quality.     

AN APPLICATION RUNOFF MODEL STRATEGY FOR UNGAGED WATERSHEDS1

ABSTRACT: Mathematical models for predicting watershed surface flow responses are available, most of which are elaborate nonlinear numerical surface and channel flow models linked with infiltration models. Such models may be used to make predictions for ungaged areas, assuming an acceptable fitting of the model to the topography and roughness of the real system. For some application purposes, these models are impractical because of their complexity and expensive computer solutions. A procedure is developed that uses a complex model of an ungaged area to derive a simpler parametric nonlinear system model for repetitious simulation with input sequences. The predicted flow outputs are obtained with the simpler model at significant savings of money and time. The procedures for constructing a complex kinematic model of a 40 acre (161,880 m²) reference watershed and deriving the simpler system model are outlined. The results of predictions from both models are compared with a selected set of measured events, all having essentially the same initial conditions. Peak discharges ranged from 3 to 118 ft³/sec (0.085 to 3.34 m³/sec), which includes the largest event of record. The inherent limitations of lumped systems models are demonstrated, including the bias caused by their inability to model infiltration losses after rainfall ceases. Computer costs and times for the models were compared. The derived simple model has a cost advantage when repeated use of a model is required. Such an applications hydrologic model has an engineering tradeoff of reduced accuracy, and lumping bias, but is more economical for certain design purposes.     

Surface applied water treatment residuals affect bioavailable phosphorus losses in Florida sands

Water treatment residuals (WTR) can reduce runoff P loss and surface co-application of P-sources and WTR is a practical way of land applying the residuals. In a rainfall simulation study, we evaluated the effects of surface co-applied P-sources and an Al-WTR on runoff and leacheate bioavailable P (BAP) losses from a Florida sand. Four P-sources, namely poultry manure, Boca Raton biosolids (high water-soluble P), Pompano biosolids (moderate water-soluble P), and triple super phosphate (TSP) were surface applied at 56 and 224kgPha(-1) (by weight) to represent low and high soil P loads typical of P- and N-based amendments rates. The treatments further received surface applied WTR at 0 or 10gWTRkg(-1) soil. BAP loss masses were greater in leachate (16.4-536mg) than in runoff (0.91-46mg), but were reduced in runoff and leachate by surface applied WTR. Masses of total BAP lost in the presence of surface applied WTR were less than approximately 75% of BAP losses in the absence of WTR. Total BAP losses from each of the organic sources applied at N-based rates were not greater than P loss from TSP applied at a P-based rate. The BAP loss at the N-based rate of moderate water-soluble P-source (Pompano biosolids) was not greater than BAP losses at the P-based rates of other organic sources tested. The hazards of excess P from applying organic P-sources at N-based rates are not greater than observed at P-based rates of mineral fertilizer. Results suggest that management of the environmental P hazards associated with N-based rates of organic materials in Florida sands is possible by either applying P-sources with WTR or using a moderate water-soluble P-source.     

Sources and Transport of Phosphorus to Rivers in California and Adjacent States,U.S., as Determined by SPARROW Modeling

The SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regression on Watershed attributes) model was used to simulate annual phosphorus loads and concentrations in unmonitored stream reaches in California, U.S., and portions of Nevada and Oregon. The model was calibrated using de‐trended streamflow and phosphorus concentration data at 80 locations. The model explained 91% of the variability in loads and 51% of the variability in yields for a base year of 2002. Point sources, geological background, and cultivated land were significant sources. Variables used to explain delivery of phosphorus from land to water were precipitation and soil clay content. Aquatic loss of phosphorus was significant in streams of all sizes, with the greatest decay predicted in small‐ and intermediate‐sized streams. Geological sources, including volcanic rocks and shales, were the principal control on concentrations and loads in many regions. Some localized formations such as the Monterey shale of southern California are important sources of phosphorus and may contribute to elevated stream concentrations. Many of the larger point source facilities were located in downstream areas, near the ocean, and do not affect inland streams except for a few locations. Large areas of cultivated land result in phosphorus load increases, but do not necessarily increase the loads above those of geological background in some cases because of local hydrology, which limits the potential of phosphorus transport from land to streams.     

Animal Consciousness and Ethics in Asia and the Pacific

The interactions between humans, animals and the environment have shaped human values and ethics, not only the genes that we are made of. The animal rights movement challenges human beings to reconsider interactions between humans and other animals, and maybe connected to the environmental movement that begs us to recognize the fact that there are symbiotic relationships between humans and all other organisms. The first part of this paper looks at types of bioethics, the implications of autonomy and the value of being alive. Then the level of consciousness of these relationships are explored in survey results from Asia and the Pacific, especially in the 1993 International Bioethics Survey conducted in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, The Philippines, Russia, Singapore and Thailand. Very few mentioned animal consciousness in the survey, but there were more biocentric comments in Australia and Japan; and more comments with the idea of harmony including humans in Thailand. Comparisons between questions and surveys will also be made, in an attempt to describe what people imagine animal consciousness to be, and whether this relates to human ethics of the relationships. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.