Evaluation of the temporal variations of air quality in Taipei City, Taiwan, from 1994 to 2003

Data collected from the five air-quality monitoring stations established by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration in Taipei City from 1994 to 2003 are analyzed to assess the temporal variations of air quality. Principal component analysis (PCA) is adopted to convert the original measuring pollutants into fewer independent components through linear combinations while still retaining the majority of the variance of the original data set. Two principal components (PCs) are retained together explaining 82.73% of the total variance. PC1, which represents primary pollutants such as CO, NO(x), and SO(2), shows an obvious decrease over the last 10 years. PC2, which represents secondary pollutants such as ozone, displays a yearly increase over the time period when a reduction of primary pollutants is obvious. In order to track down the control measures put forth by the authorities, 47 days of high PM(10) concentrations caused by transboundary transport have been eliminated in analyzing the long-term trend of PM(10) in Taipei City. The temporal variations over the past 10 years show that the moderate peak in O(3) demonstrates a significant upward trend even when the local primary pollutants have been well under control. Monthly variations of PC scores demonstrate that primary pollution is significant from January to April, while ozone increases from April to August. The results of the yearly variations of PC scores show that PM(10) has gradually shifted from a strong correlation with PC1 during the early years to become more related to PC2 in recent years. This implies that after a reduction of primary pollutants, the proportion of secondary aerosols in PM(10) may increase. Thus, reducing the precursor concentrations of secondary aerosols will be an effective way to lower PM(10) concentrations.     

中国瑞典城市可持续发展研讨会在京召开

2008年1月25日,由国家环境保护总局和瑞典驻华使馆共同主办的中国瑞典城市可持续发展研讨会在京召开,就中瑞两国环境可持续发展有关议题进行了充分的讨论和交流.此次研讨会的内容分为三个部分:城市可持续发展概述、城市可持续发展的技术解决方案、城市可持续发展的成功案例.     

我国水污染治理行业2007年技术发展综述

本文在对行业重点水污染治理企业调查的基础上,综述了2007年我国水污染治理行业的技术开发应用情况、技术研究热点及发展趋势,并对存在的主要问题提出了对策建议.     

我国机动车污染防治2007年行业技术发展综述

本文综述了"十一五"以来我国机动车污染防治行业的主要技术开发应用情况,分析评价了行业技术的研究热点及主要工艺配套设备的开发应用水平;归纳了机动车污染防治技术的开发重点.     

新修订的《节约能源法》即将生效

2008年4月1日起,新修订的<节约能源法>将正式生效.与现行的法律相比,新修订的<节约能源法>在法律层面上将节约资源确定为我国的基本国策,在法律调整范围和可操作性上都有较大变化.     

Effects of reduced contaminant loading on downgradient water quality in an idealized two-layer granular porous media

The following explores the issue of how reductions in contaminant loading to plumes will effect downgradient water quality. An idealized scenario of two adjacent layers of uniform geologic media, one transmissive and the other low permeability, is considered. A high concentration source, similar to a thin DNAPL pool, is introduced in the transmissive layer immediately above the low permeability layer. While the source is active, dissolved constituents are driven along the contact by advection and into the low permeability layer by transverse diffusion. Removing the source reverses the concentration gradient between the layers, driving back diffusion of contaminants from the low permeability layer. Laboratory studies involving four contaminants demonstrate that 15 to 44% of the introduced contaminant moves into the low permeability zone (along a distance of 87 cm in a sand tank) over a period of 25 days. The greatest movement of contaminants into the low permeability zone is seen with the contaminants with the greatest sorption coefficients. A unique two-dimensional analytical solution is developed for the two-layer scenario. Processes addressed include advection; transverse dispersion; adsorption and degradation in the transmissive zones; and diffusion, adsorption, and degradation in the low permeability layer. Laboratory data agree favorably with the analytical solutions. Collectively, the laboratory results and analytical solutions provide a basis for testing other modeling approaches that can be applied to more complex problems. A set of field-scale scenarios are considered using the analytical solutions. Results indicate that improvement in water quality associated with source removal diminish with distance downgradient of the source. Furthermore, contaminant degradation and contaminant adsorption in the stagnant zone are shown to be critical factors governing the timing and magnitude of downgradient improvements in water quality. For five of six scenarios considered, observed improvements in water quality 100 m downgradient of the source fall in the range of 1 to 2 orders of magnitude 15 years after complete source removal. The sixth scenario, involving a contaminant half-life of three years and no adsorption, shows greater than three order of magnitude improvements in downgradient water quality within one year of source removal.     

安全生产科技进步的强大动力

新中国的安全生产科学技术从改善劳动作业环境,加强对劳动者个体防护等方面的研究工作起步。改革开放30年以来,随着社会主义现代化建设得到迅猛发展,并将在科学发展观和建设创新型国家战略指导下进入新的发展时期。借此《劳动保护》杂志创刊55周年之际,回顾过去,总结经验,展望未来,站在新的历史起点上,     

Locating pollutant emission sources with optical remote sensing measurements and an improved one-dimensional radial plume mapping technique

Previous studies have shown that there was a relatively large amount of uncertainty along the major wind direction in the results of locating emission sources using the one-dimensional radial plume mapping (RPM(1D)) technique based on optical remote sensing measurements. This paper proposes setting up an additional monitoring line that is perpendicular to the original scanning beam geometry to reduce this uncertainty. We first conducted a computer simulation study using the Gaussian dispersion model to generate the downwind concentrations of plumes from 400 source locations in a 201 m × 201 m spatial domain under various wind directions (n = 181). The optical remote sensing instrument was assumed to be at (0, 0) with two perpendicular monitoring lines, each of which had three beam segments of equal length. Each pair of the reconstructed downwind concentration profiles was then used to trace back to the source locations. The results showed that the accuracy of the method and its uncertainty were improved by using the proposed two-line RPM(1D) approach rather than the original one-line RPM(1D) approach at most simulated source locations. In a follow-up field experiment, a tracer gas was released at the coordinate of (100, 100). The release location was covered within the 0.25- to 0.5-probability area of the estimated results, and the distance between the actual and estimated source locations was 18.4 m (9.2% of the longest beam path).     

亚非国家环境执法各有各难 取长补短联手出击

中国环境报消息联合国环境规划署（UNEP）与中国-东盟环境保护合作中心（ASEAN）在北京联合举办了“南南合作框架下亚洲-非洲环境执法研讨会”,来自中国、非洲11国、东南亚9国和中亚3国,以及 UNEP、联合国开发计划署等国际机构和合作伙伴,     

Impact of water quality on bacterioplankton assemblage along Cértima River Basin (central western Portugal) assessed by PCR–DGGE and multivariate analysis

The information on bacterial community composition (BCC) in Portuguese water bodies is very scarce. Cértima River (central western Portugal) is known to have high levels of pollution, namely organic. In the present work, the BCC from a set of 16 water samples collected from Cértima River Basin and its main tributaries was characterized using 16S rDNA–denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis, a culture-independent molecular approach. Molecular data were related to environmental parameters through multivariate analysis to investigate potential impact of water pollution along the river. Principal component analysis using environmental data showed a water quality gradient from more pristine waters (at the mountain tributaries) to waters with increasingly eutrophic potential (such as Fermentelos Lake). This gradient was mainly defined by factors such as organic and inorganic nutrient sources, electrical conductivity, hydrogen carbonate concentration, and pH. Molecular results showed variations in BCC along Cértima River Basin but in the main river section, a Bacteroidetes phylotype (Flavobacterium sp.) proved to be dominant throughout the river course. Multivariate analysis suggests that spatial variation of BCC along the Cértima River Basin depended mainly on parameters such as Chl a, total suspended solid (TSS), total organic carbon, electrical conductivity, and HCO _boxclose^-_{3}^{-} levels. Bacteroidetes phylotypes were all related to higher electrical conductivity and HCO₃^-_{3}^{-} levels although some of these were also correlated with high SO₄^2-_{4}^{2-} and others with high soluble reactive phosphorus, nitrate, TN, and Kjeld-N levels. The Gammaproteobacteria occurrence was correlated with high SO₄^2-_{4}^{2-} levels. One of the Betaproteobacteria phylotypes showed to correlate with low redox potential (E_h) and high temperature, pH, TSS, and Chl a levels while another one showed a negative correlation with Chl a values.