Column studies on transport of deicing additive benzotriazole in a sandy aquifer and a zerovalent iron barrier

Benzotriazole (BTA), a chemical with wide industrial applications, is a typical additive in deicer/anti-icer used at airport. To achieve a better understanding of the transport behaviour and environmental fate of BTA, laboratory column studies have been performed on subsoil samples from Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. To explore possibilities for aquifer remediation, BTA behaviour was also studied in a column of granular zerovalent iron (Fe(0)). The subsoil column study demonstrates a very limited retardation of BTA. Consecutive loadings of BTA of the subsoil column showed no change of the break-through curve (BTC) and complete desorption was observed. The sorption behaviour of BTA to metallic iron (Fe(0)) was rather complex. Considerable retardation was observed in the Fe(0) column and repeated BTA loading resulted in an earlier break-through. Between 20% and 50% of the input concentration was retained permanently in the iron (Fe(0)) column. The BTA sorption to metallic iron was found to be enhanced by chloride which lowered the break-through concentration (i.e the C/C(0) plateau). The fraction of BTA remaining in the iron column was found to vary with the flow rate, indicating a time dependant multilayer sorption mechanism. The steady increase in the amount of adsorbed BTA to the iron column during loading corresponds to a rather strong bonding of 4-15 BTA layers to the iron surface. A very slow desorption of BTA was observed; even after flushing with 753 pore volumes of BTA free water, 7.5% of the BTA remained in the column. A geochemical model was developed based on PHREEQC-2 to simulate the sorption and transport of BTA in the tested materials. The BTA sorption was modelled with Freundlich sorption isotherms, as earlier determined in batch experiments. A slight adjustment of the Freundlich parameters was required to fit the observed column break-through. However, our model was not able to simulate the long-term retainment of BTA in the granular iron columns. The simulations confirm the high mobility of BTA in groundwater aquifers and suggest that zerovalent iron could be used to retain a BTA plume, although oxidation of the sorbent might reduce the long-term performance of such a remediation scheme and slow desorption has been observed.     

A biomimetic absorbent for removal of trace level persistent organic pollutants from water

A novel biomimetic absorbent containing the lipid triolein was developed for removing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from water. The structural characteristics of the absorbent were obtained by SEM and a photoluminescence method. Under optimum preparation conditions, triolein was perfectly embedded in the cellulose acetate (CA) spheres, the absorbent was stable and no triolein leaked into the water. Dieldrin, endrin, aldrin and heptachlor epoxide were effectively removed by the CA--triolein absorbent in laboratory batch experiments. This suggests that CA-triolein absorbent may serve as a good absorbent for those selected POPs. Triolein in the absorbent significantly increased the absorption capacity, and lower residual concentrations of POPs were achieved when compared to the use of cellulose acetate absorbent. The absorption rate for lipophilic pollutants was very fast and exhibited some relationship with the octanol--water partition coefficient of the analyte. The absorption mechanism is discussed in detail.     

江苏省危险化学品生产状况调查分析及监管对策

根据《危险化学品名录》,分析江苏省取得危险化学品安全生产许可证的1774家企业的化学品种类、数量、生产企业类型分布情况.结果表明,江苏省危险化学品生产企业在地域分布上苏南多于苏北;化工、建材行业的危险化学品生产企业所占比例较高;危险化学品涉及除爆炸品外的6大类,达3 790种,以生产易燃液体的企业数目为最多;有31家企业生产10种以上危险化学品.笔者建议,通过评估摸清企业安全生产状况,严格控制危险化学品企业安全生产许可证发放,实现危险化学品运输企业的动态管理,建立安全监测预警技术平台.     

低温试验能力验证中的不确定度分析评估

本文简述电气领域如何评定测量不确定度过程,并结合CNAS T0346低温试验能力验证计划,识别和具体分析低温试验中各测量不确定度的来源,对各种影响因素进行评价,论述人、机、料、法、环、测各环节对测量结果的影响,给出了低温试验测量结果不确定度的评估过程。     

中国水旱灾害危险性的时空格局研究

水灾与旱灾之间,不论在形成的原因上或是在治理措施上,都存在着相当密切的关系。受季风气候影响,中国的洪水和干旱灾害同时并存,近年来我国遭受极端水旱灾害事件的次数比以往增加很多。基于县域统计单元的水旱灾害信息,以总时段（1949—2005年）、分时段（1956—1965年,1996—2005年）、分季度和分月份4种时间尺度来划分,选取2359个县域单元上的灾害频数作为衡量水旱灾害危险性的指标,主要从危险性整体转移、高危险区转移、转移的形成因素以及高危险区的防灾减灾对策几个角度,探讨了中国水灾、旱灾以及水旱综合灾害的危险性时空分异规律。研究表明：近57年来,中国水旱灾害危险性的整体格局呈现东西分异,东部远远高于西部,这是气候一地貌一人类活动相互作用的产物。1956—1965年,我国水旱灾害危险性格局的东西分异明显;1996—2005年,水旱灾害危险性格局不变,高值区域明显增大,向东北、西北、南方扩展。水旱灾害危险性格局的季节变化显著,整体呈现夏季水旱灾害危险性高,春季次之,秋冬季危险性低的状况;月际变化与降水带的推移和承灾体的月际变化相似,7月水旱灾害危险性达到峰值。上述研究结果可为水旱灾害风险区划以及水旱灾害高危险区的减灾战略规划提供科学依据。     

人类抗灾体适能理论架构的研究

介绍了河北省教育科学“十一五”规划课题——体育培养大学生抗灾体适能的实践研究的阶段性研究成果。基于生物学、心理学和社会学的理论研究,通过文献资料法、访谈法和开放式调查法,提出了抗灾体适能的概念,分析了抗灾体适能的内涵和外延,并就将抗灾体适能结构划分为三个维度进行了研究,探讨了人类抗灾体适能理论模型的研究框架,提出了通过体育途径培养抗灾体适能的初步设想。     

杨树刺槐混交林沙地土壤的水分—物理性质

研究了刺槐与杨树混交林后沙地土壤水分－物理性质变化的状况,结果表明,刺槐与杨树混交后,土壤水分－物理性质得到了改善,表现在土壤最大持水量增加,毛管持水量、田间持水量得以提高,土壤有效持水量也有了较大幅度的提高,刺槐与杨树混交后土壤总孔隙度、非毛管孔隙度、毛管孔隙度得到提高,并由此而改善了混交林土壤的渗透性能,表4参7     

顶空气相色谱法测定土壤中的苯系物

利用惠普顶空进样仪作为一种处理土壤样品的手段,自动把待测物送到气相色谱进行分析。研究顶空温度、气液比、平衡时间等条件对测定结果的影响。方法操作简便,灵敏度高。苯的变异系数为1.7%和4.1%,加标回收率为95％－105％,最小检出浓度为2.0μg/kg。     

Improve Compliance with Limited Resources by a Three-Group Inspection Regime

Frequent monitoring and relatively high fines are usually necessary to bring about improvements in environmental quality, but more challenging for many countries with limited human, material, and financial resources is to put them into practice. This paper developed a three-group model of a state-dependent enforcement in a repeated game to improve the policy implementation under limited inspection capacities. A certain number of firms are grouped (group 1, group 2, group 3) for different supervision intensity (e.g., the order of inspection probability corresponding to each group is p ₁?<?p ₂?<?p ₃) based on their environmental performance. The optimal policy parameters, such as inspection probability of each group and the probability that a firm found in compliance is moved to a better reputation group, were obtained as the basis for regulator’s policy making. Numerical simulations indicated that the three-group inspection regime can significantly increase compliance rate as compared with static enforcement with the same monitoring probability. Among the number of firms in each group under steady state conditions, group 2 had the most, group 1 was the second, and group 3 had the smallest. Analysis and prediction of a three-group reputation example provided a good experiment for the model. The results give a practical reference for the policy makers with inspection capacity constraints to achieve higher compliance rate.     

环境污染物计算毒理学分析及环境行为模拟研究进展

根据国内外研究报道,系统地总结了计算毒理学和化合物环境行为模拟在环境科学领域的研究进展,包括二者的概念、理论、研究方法以及在环境研究中的应用;分析了计算毒理学和化合物环境行为模拟在发展中所面临的挑战,并提出对策;展望了计算毒理学和化合物环境行为模拟在环境研究中的发展前景。