Although research regarding antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in aquaculture environments has gained increasing scientific interest, further studies are required to understand the abundances and removal mechanisms of ARGs during the entire rearing period of shrimp aquaculture. Thus, in this study, abundances, distributions and removal rates of ARGs in different environmental compartments of intensive shrimp farms in South China were investigated during the entire rearing period. The results indicated that sul1 and cmlA were the predominant ARGs in the water and sediment samples. Additionally, the total abundance of ARGs was higher in shrimp pond water than in the source water and farm effluent. Moreover, sediment samples indicated significantly higher ARG abundances than water samples from the shrimp ponds (P?<?0.05). Environmental factors were found to significantly affect the distribution of ARGs in shrimp rearing environments. Furthermore, stable ponds aided the removal of ARGs from shrimp pond water. This study accounted for temporal variations in ARG abundances as well as removal of ARGs in different environmental compartments during the entire shrimp rearing period. However, additional research is required to optimize the water treatment process for removal of ARGs from the aquaculture. 相似文献
A process combining catalyzed Fe(0)-carbon microelectrolysis (IC-ME) with activated carbon (AC) adsorption was developed for advanced reclaimed water treatment. Simultaneous nitrate reduction and chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal were achieved, and the effects of composite catalyst (CC) addition, AC addition, and initial pH were investigated. The reaction kinetics and reaction mechanisms were calculated and analyzed. The results showed that CC addition could enhance the reduction rate of nitrate and effectively inhibit the production of ammonia. Moreover, AC addition increased the adsorption capacity of biorefractory organic compounds (BROs) and enhanced the degradation of BRO. The reduction of NO3?–N at different pH values was consistently greater than 96.9%, and NH4+–N was suppressed by high pH. The presence of CC ensured the reaction rate of IC-ME at high pH. The reaction kinetics orders and constants were calculated. Catalyzed iron scrap (IS)-AC showed much better nitrate reduction and BRO degradation performances than IS-AC and AC. The IC-ME showed great potential for application to nitrate and BRO reduction in reclaimed water.
The power-voltage (P-V) characteristic curves of a PV array are nonlinear and have multiple peaks under partially shaded conditions (PSCs). This paper proposes a novel maximum power point tracking (MPPT) method for a PV system with reduced steady-state oscillation based on a two-stage particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The grouping method of the shuffled frog leaping algorithm (SFLA) is incorporated in the basic PSO algorithm (PSO-SFLA), ensuring fast and accurate searching of the global extremum. An adaptive speed factor is also introduced into the improved PSO to further enhance its convergence speed. Test results show that the proposed method converges in less than half the time taken by the conventional PSO method, and the power is improved by 33% under the worst PSCs, which confirms the superiority of the proposed method over the standard PSO algorithm in terms of tracking speed and steady-state oscillations under different PSCs. 相似文献
Background, aim, and scope Endosulfan, an organochlorine pesticide (OCP), is genotoxic in mammalian cells and generally considered to be toxic and classified
by the World Health Organization and the US Environmental Protection Agency as priority pollutants and a nominator for inclusion
in a future iteration of the persistent organic pollutants treaty. Endosulfan is a currently used pesticide and still being
used worldwide. The general trend of total global endosulfan use has increased continuously since the first year when this
pesticide was applied. It is critical to create national endosulfan usage/emission inventories for China to carry out source–receptor
relation analysis, risk assessment, and other research related to endosulfan in this country. Chinese inventories have been
published for some OCPs, such as technical HCH and lindane, DDT, and chlordane; for endosulfan, however, there has not been
any usage inventory available on any scales (national or provincial), although endosulfan has been widely used since 1994
in this country. This is the first part of the work. The goal of this paper is to quantify the historical production and usage
of endosulfan in China and to compile gridded historical usage inventories of endosulfan for this country. Based on these
usage inventories, emission and residue inventories will be created, which is the goal of the second part of the work.
Materials and methods Due to the lack of national production and usage information of endosulfan in China, a method to estimate the use of endosulfan
was developed. First, information of crops on which endosulfan is applied and average endosulfan use and annual application
frequencies of endosulfan on these crops were collected. Secondly, usage of endosulfan on each crop was estimated using the
national cropland area for each province from Chinese government reports. Finally, with the help of GIS (geographic information
system), the usage data of this insecticide was allocated to a grid system, with a 1/4° longitude by 1/6° latitude resolution,
with a size for each grid cell of approximately 25 km by 25 km.
Results and discussion The use of endosulfan in agriculture in China started on cotton in 1994, and on wheat, tea, tobacco, apples, and other fruits
in 1998. Endosulfan usage on cotton, wheat, tea, tobacco, and apples in China has been estimated to be approximately 25,700 t
between 1994 and 2004. The province with the highest usage of endosulfan is Henan Province, with a total usage reaching 4,000 t,
followed by the uses in Xinjiang Autonomous Region (3,200 t), Shandong Province (3,000 t), Hebei Province (2,100 t), and Anhui
Province (1,900 t). Gridded usage inventories of endosulfan at a 1/4° longitude by 1/6° latitude resolution have been created,
which indicate that the intensive endosulfan use was in the south of Hebei Province, west of Shandong Province, east of Henan
Province, north of Anhui Province, east of Jiangsu Province, and some areas in Yunnan Province and Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
General agreement has been found between the usage data from our estimation and the small amount of usage data published in
China.
Conclusions This is the first national gridded endosulfan usage inventory produced for China. The annual applications of endosulfan from
1994 to 2004 in China were estimated based on the total areas of major crops, on which endosulfan was applied, and spatial
distribution of the application was generated at provincial and prefecture levels. With the help of GIS, endosulfan usage
based on prefecture was transferred to a 1/4° longitude by 1/6° latitude gridding system. The satisfaction of the inventories
was supported by the consistence between the estimation of the annual usage and the reported annual production of endosulfan.
Recommendations and perspectives This gridded endosulfan usage inventory created in this study will be improved upon availability of new information of endosulfan.
The usage inventories can be used to create gridded emission and residue inventories for this insecticide. It is believed
that this work will pave the way for further endosulfan studies in China and beyond. 相似文献
Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde are two most abundant carbonyls in ambient air. Biogenic emission has been proposed as a significant source other than anthropogenic emissions and atmospheric secondary formation. Here at a forest site in South China, the carbon isotopic compositions of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde emitted from leaves of three tree species (Litsea rotundifolia, Canarium album and Castanea henryi) were measured in comparison with the bulk carbon isotopic compositions of tree leaves. δ13C data of the emitted aldehydes (from ?31‰ to ?46‰) were quite different for tree species, which were all more depleted in 13C than the tree-leaf bulk δ13C values (from ?27‰ to ?32‰). Formaldehyde in ambient air at the forest site had δ13C values different from those of leaf-emitted formaldehyde, indicating other sources for ambient formaldehyde apart from direct emission from leaves, most probably the photooxidation of biogenic hydrocarbon like isoprene and monoterpene. The δ13C differences of acetaldehyde between ambient data and those of tree leaves emission were less than 1‰, implying direct biogenic emission as the dominant source. 相似文献