Response of methane emission to invasion of Spartina alterniflora and exogenous N deposition in the coastal salt marsh

Spartina alterniflora exhibits great invading potential in the coastal marsh ecosystems. Also, nitrogen (N) deposition shows an apparent increase in the east of China. To evaluate CH₄ emissions in the coastal marsh as affected by the invasion of S. alterniflora and N deposition, we measured CH₄ emission from brackish marsh mesocosms vegetated with S. alterniflora and a native plant, Suaeda salsa, and fertilized with exogenous N at the rates of 0 and 2.7 g N m^?2, respectively. Dissolved porewater CH₄ concentration and redox potentials in soils as well as aboveground biomass and stem density of plants were also monitored. The averaged rate of CH₄ emission during the growing season in the S. alterniflora and S. salsa mesocosms without N application was 0.88 and 0.54 mg CH₄ m^?2 h^?1, respectively, suggesting that S. alterniflora plants significantly increased CH₄ emission mainly because of higher plant biomass rather than stem density compared to S. salsa, which delivered more substrates to the soil for methanogenesis. Exogenous N input dramatically stimulated CH₄ emission by 71.7% in the S. alterniflora mesocosm. This increase was attributable to enhancement in biomass and particularly stem density of S. alterniflora driven by N application, which transported greater photosynthesis products than oxygen into soils for CH₄ production and provided more pathways for CH₄ emission. In contrast, there was no significant effect of N fertilization on CH₄ emission in the S. salsa mesocosm. Although N fertilization significantly stimulated CH₄ production by increasing S. salsa biomass, no significant increase in stem density was observed. This fact, along with the low gas transport capacity of S. salsa, failed to efficiently transport CH₄ from wetlands into the atmosphere. Thus we argue that the stimulatory or inhibitory effect of N fertilization on CH₄ emission from wetlands might depend on the gas transport capacity of plants and their relative contribution to substrates for CH₄ production and oxygen for CH₄ oxidation in soil.     

Impact of permanent inundation on methane emissions from a Spartina alterniflora coastal salt marsh

To understand the effect of water level on CH₄ emissions from an invasive Spartina alterniflora coastal brackish marsh, we measured CH₄ emissions from intermittently and permanently (5 cm water depth) inundated mesocosms with or without N fertilizer added at a rate of 2.7 g N m^?2. Dissolved CH₄ concentrations in porewater and vertically-profiled sediment redox potential were measured, as were aboveground biomass and stem density of S. alterniflora. Mean CH₄ fluxes during the growing season in permanently inundated mesocosms without and with N fertilizer were 1.03 and 1.73 mg CH₄ m^?2 h^?1, respectively, which were significantly higher than in the intermittently inundated mesocosms. This response indicates that prolonged submergence of sediment, up to a water depth of 5 cm, stimulated CH₄ release. Inundation did not greatly affect aboveground biomass and stem density, but did significantly reduce redox potential in sediment, which in turn stimulated CH₄ production and increased the CH₄ concentration of porewater, resulting in higher CH₄ emission in the mesocosm. Our data showed that the stimulatory effect of shallow, permanent inundation on CH₄ emission in S. alterniflora marsh sediment was due primarily to an improved methanogenic environment rather than an increase in plant-derived substrates and/or the number of gas emission pathways through the plant’s aerenchymal system.     

硬脂酸改性磁铁矿在含油污水处理中的应用

研究了水溶液中硬脂酸改性后磁铁矿吸附石油的特性,测定了温度、改性剂用量和时间等因素对改性以及吸附的影响,并对吸附后磁铁矿进行了再生。通过对红外图谱、扫描电镜图谱等的分析,对改性及吸附机理进行了探讨。结果表明,硬脂酸改性磁铁矿的最佳改性条件为常温20℃,改性时间45 min,改性剂用量硬脂酸与磁铁矿的质量比为4%,改性过程中伴随着物理和化学变化,硬脂酸在磁铁矿表面形成了双分子层包覆。改性后的磁铁矿表面湿润性降低,改性磁铁矿吸附石油符合Langmu ir型吸附等温线,最大吸附量为749.23 mg/g,最大去除率达93%。对饱和吸附后的改性磁铁矿经再生处理后,石油去除率稳定在85%。     

Ni-Y分子筛对燃料油中二苯并噻吩的吸附性能研究

以Y型分子筛为载体,采用液相离子交换法制备Ni-Y分子筛吸附剂。采用电感耦合等离子体发射光谱(ICP)、低温液氮吸附法、X射线衍射(XRD)等手段对Ni-Y分子筛进行表征,使用静态吸附方法考察吸附条件对分子筛吸附燃料油中二苯并噻吩性能的影响,并使用Langmuir-Freundlich(L-F)方程对分子筛的吸附等温线进行拟合。结果表明,Ni2+离子的改性对分子筛的孔道结构影响不显著。吸附过程中,吸附时间、剂油比以及芳烃类物质的干扰,都对吸附效果有较大影响。利用L-F方程拟合,计算出25℃时Ni-Y分子筛对二苯并噻吩的饱和吸附量为72.9 mg/g。     

剩余污泥超声预处理后水解酸化特性

为探讨剩余污泥超声预处理后的水解酸化特性,考察了0.6 W/mL、5 min和1 W/mL、5 min 2种超声预处理条件下污泥水解酸化过程有机质、氮、磷的释放情况。实验结果表明,2种超声预处理均可促进污泥水解酸化,并且0.6 W/mL比1 W/mL的超声预处理更有利于SCOD的释放、VFAs的产生以及氮和磷的释放;水解酸化初期,超声预处理比未经超声预处理的污泥在有机质、氮、磷释放率上差异非常明显,随着水解酸化的进行,有机质和氮释放率差异仍很明显,而磷释放程度逐渐接近;经0.6 W/mL超声预处理,污泥水解酸化3 d后,SCOD释放率、VFAs浓度、TN释放率和NH4+-N释放率分别是未经处理污泥的1.85、2.63、1.85和1.41倍,而TP和PO43--P释放率较未经处理污泥仅分别多2.44和1.23个百分点。研究表明,控制适宜的声能密度、超声时间和水解酸化进程是超声预处理强化剩余污泥水解酸化效果的关键。     

Efficiency and Economy of a New Agricultural Rainwater Harvesting System

Shortage of water is the key limiting factor for agricul-tural development of Beijing. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) could provide an alternative water source for greenhouse agriculture, but local natural and socioeconomic conditions challenge the applica-tion of the technology. This article analyses the advantages and disadvantages of different types of greenhouse RWH in Beijing,and describes a new greenhouse RWH system demonstrated in 2008 in Huairou, a suburb district of Beijing. It analyses the ef-ficiency, cost-benefit ratios and limiting factors of the new system.The results show that with the new system, RWH efficiency can be as high as 66% (of total rainfall) and the rainwater usage rate can reach 69% of total water usage. The ratio of benefit to cost of government investment can be 1.84, and the ratio of benefit to cost of a farmer's investment could be 1.68 provided the project is designed to save water and also increase income. However, the price of groundwater for agriculture directly influences the potential for applying and scaling up the project. If the RWH system does not increase the farmers' incomes at the current water price, they will not use it until the water price rises to a critical point, which is de-termined by external factors. This article also suggests a number of measures to increase the efficiency of the system in order to apply it on a large scale.     

Isolation and characterization of two novel psychrotrophic decabromodiphenyl ether-degrading bacteria from river sediments

Decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) is a brominated flame retardant and a priority contaminant. Currently, little information is available about its significance in the environment, specifically about its susceptibility to aerobic biotransformation at low temperature. In this work, five phylogenetically diverse BDE-209-degrading bacterial strains were isolated from river sediments of northern China. These strains were distributed among four different genera—Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, Bacillus and Staphylococcus. All five isolates were capable of growing on BDE-209, among which two isolates show better growth. By detailed morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics and 16S rDNA sequence analysis, the two strains were identified and named as Staphylococcus haemolyticus LY1 and Bacillus pumilus LY2. The two bacteria can grow in mineral salt medium containing BDE-209 substrate across the temperatures ranging from 2.5 to 35 °C, with an optimum temperature of 25 °C which could be considered as psychrotrophs accordingly. The degradation experiment showed that more than 70.6 and 85.5 % of 0.5 mg/L BDE-209 were degraded and the highest mineralization efficiencies of 29.8 and 39.2 % were achieved for 0.5 mg/L BDE-209 by S. haemolyticus LY1 and B. pumilus LY2, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration for the biodegradation of BDE-209 by two psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from environment.     

Glucuronidation of hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers and their modulation of estrogen UDP-glucuronosyltransferases

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) can be metabolically converted to their hydroxylated metabolites (OH-PBDEs). The estrogenic effects of PBDEs may be mediated by OH-PBDEs, but the mechanisms of which are still not understood. This study investigated the glucuronidation of 11 OH-PBDEs and their potential in modulating UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) activity of 17β-estradiol (E2) in rat liver microsomes. The number of bromine atoms at phenolic ring was observed as the most influential factor of OH-PBDEs glucuronidation. 2′-OH-BDE-28 having one bromine atom at phenolic ring showed the fastest metabolic rates with t_1/2 value of 3.86 min, while 6-OH-BDE-137 having four bromine atoms at phenolic ring was the poorest substrate with t_1/2 value over 60 min. Regarding to the modulation of E2-UGTs activity, the phenolic hydroxyl group in OH-PBDEs played an essential role. Depending on the substitution patterns of bromine and hydroxyl group, OH-PBDEs inhibited or stimulated E2-UGTs activity. Ten of OH-PBDEs inhibited both 3-glucuronidation and 17-glucuronidation of E2 with IC₅₀ values varying from 3.80 to 129.38 μM, while 3′-OH-BDE-100 exhibited stimulating effects on 3-glucuronidation with EC₅₀ value of 35.95 μM. Kinetic analysis suggested noncompetitive inhibition mode of E2 glucuronidation by 3′-OH-BDE-7, 6-OH-BDE-47 and 2′-OH-BDE-68 with K_i values varying from 11.95 to 67.22 μM. This study demonstrated OH-PBDEs exhibited large interindividual differences in glucuronidation and modulation of E2-UGTs activity. By inhibiting the formation of E2 glucuronidation, OH-PBDEs may increase E2 bioavailability in target tissue, thereby exerting an indirect estrogenic effect.     

The effects of biochars from rice residue on the formation of iron plaque and the accumulation of Cd, Zn, Pb, As in rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings

A historically multi-metal contaminated soil was amended with biochars produced from different parts of rice plants (straw, husk and bran) to investigate how biochar can influence the mobility of Cd, Zn, Pb and As in rice seedlings (Oryza sativa L.). Rice shoot concentrations of Cd, Zn and Pb decreased by up to 98%, 83% and 72%, respectively, due to biochar amendment, though that of As increased by up to 327%. Biochar amendments significantly decreased pore water concentrations (C_pw) of Cd and Zn and increased that of As. For Pb it depended on the amendment. Porewater pH, dissolved organic carbon, dissolved phosphorus, silicon in pore water and iron plaque formation on root surfaces all increased significantly after the amendments. The proportions of Cd and Pb in iron plaque increased by factors 1.8-5.7 and 1.4-2.8, respectively; no increase was observed for As and Zn. Straw-char application significantly and noticeably decreased the plant transfer coefficients of Cd and Pb. This study, the first to investigate changes in metal mobility and iron plaque formation in rice plants due to amending a historically contaminated soil with biochar, indicates that biochar has a potential to decrease Cd, Zn and Pb accumulations in rice shoot but increase that of As. The main cause is likely biochar decreasing the C_pw of Cd and Zn, increasing the C_pw of As, and increasing the iron plaque blocking capacity for Cd and Pb.     

生态修复综合技术在杭州虾龙圩河的应用

杭州虾龙圩河由于多年污染,河道水质严重黑臭,自净能力遭到破坏。本研究通过综合利用底泥污染物削减、生物接触氧化水质净化、造流曝气及水生生态系统修复等技术对虾龙圩河进行治理。结果显示,此项综合技术对城市河流污水具有良好的污染物去除性能,COD、NH3-N和TP的去除率分别可达到73．3％、80．1％和81．7％。通过1年的运行与养护,虾龙圩河治理段的水质、生态环境等有了明显改善,没有发生过水华及黑臭现象,河道水体具备了较强的自净能力。