微生物处理含油污泥主要影响因素研究

污泥含油量和微生物接种量是影响微生物去除土壤中的石油污染物效果、时间和成本的主要因素。以安塞油田地面污泥为样本,在确定污泥物理化学性质的基础上,通过试验给出了不同污泥含油量和不同微生物接种量对降解速率影响的关系曲线,根据试验结论,综合考虑处理周期和成本,确定待处理污泥的含油量上限为8%,最佳微生物接种量为6%。按此条件进行现场施工,经过100 d的降解,污泥含油量降至1%以下,达到国家环保排放标准。     

碱法制浆造纸黑液良性循环处理技术研究

对碱法制浆黑液良性循环处理技术原理及技术路线了探讨和试验研究。结果表明，将制浆黑液处理与回收、液体回用有机地相结合处理过程所用原料转化为制浆药液成分回用于制浆蒸煮，回收液制成木质素磺酸盐，技术路线可行，可为碱法制浆黑液处理提供有效的技术支持。     

雄安新区土壤重金属地球化学监测关键问题探讨

为构建雄安新区土壤环境质量监控网,系统获取雄安新区建设前后土壤重金属地球化学数据,长期监测新区建设过程中土壤重金属的变化趋势,在分析雄安新区土地质量地球化学调查监测数据和土壤重金属元素地球化学空间变异特征的基础上,采用统计学方法估算构建新区土壤地球化学监测网所需要的采样密度、采样数量和采样周期等参数,为后续新区土壤重金属地球化学长期监测工作提供参考.结果表明,调查区重金属As、 Cd、 Cu、 Hg和Pb元素变异系数>36%,属于高度变异元素; Cd、 Cu和Pb元素块金系数均>75%,其高度富集是在较高自然背景上出现了人为源的叠加.在置信水平P为95%和90%时,对样本平均值允许误差Δ分别为5%、 10%和15%的条件下,同时对新区土壤中8种重金属As、 Cd、 Cr、 Cu、 Hg、 Ni、 Pb和Zn进行土壤环境质量监测,最少合理采样数分别为1 077个、 270个、 120个和767个、 192个、 86个.土壤各重金属元素可监测最小变化量(MDC)介于0.0025～2.54 mg·kg^-1之间.在不同的重金属年变化速率下土壤重金属监测所需要的...     

The impact of climate change on global energy use

Robust decision making, a growing approach to infrastructure planning under climate change uncertainty, aims to evaluate infrastructure performance across a wide range of possible conditions and identify the most robust strategies and designs. Robust decision making seeks to find potential weaknesses in systems in order to gird these through a combination of policy, infrastructure, and, in some cases, resilient or recovery strategies. A system can be explored by simulating many combinations of uncertain climatic and economic parameters; statistical clustering can identify parameter thresholds that lead to unacceptable performance. Often, however, uncertain variables are correlated, complicating the robustness analysis and casting doubt upon the thresholds identified. Here, we evaluate the impact of ordinary, hidden correlations in uncertainty parameters that drive simulation in robust decision making. We induced correlations between temperature and key climatic and economic parameters. We tested correlations of 0%, 30%, 60%, and 90% between temperature and the absolute value of precipitation, coefficient of variation, and downward surface solar radiation, and negative correlations between temperature and net variable benefit and the discount rate. We used a calibrated simulation model of a dam system regulating Lake Tana, Ethiopia, to compute the agricultural supply and net present value of the reservoirs. As the correlation strength increased, the results converged in a smaller region. We found that strong correlations depressed robustness scores of lower-performing alternatives and conversely increased results of the higher-performing alternatives. As the correlations increased in favorable alternatives, the failure thresholds became more extreme, speciously suggesting that only intense changes would result in poor performance. This overall analysis highlights the degree to which correlations of an interconnected climatic and economic system can impact outcomes of robust decision making and suggests methods to avoid confounding results.

     

Enantioselective hydrolysis and photolysis of mandipropamid in different aquatic environments — evaluation of influencing factors

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The hydrolysis and photolysis of the chiral fungicide mandipropamid were investigated, and the potential enantioselectivity of mandipropamid in...     

Tracing the impact of stack configuration on interface resistances in reverse electrodialysis by in situ electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

• RED performance and stack resistance were studied by EIS and LSV. • Interface resistance were discriminated from Ohmic resistance by EIS. • Impacts of spacer shadow effect and concentration polarization were analyzed. • Ionic short current reduced the power density for more cell pairs. • The results enabled to predict RED performance with different configurations. Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is an emerging membrane-based technology for the production of renewable energy from mixing waters with different salinities. Herein, the impact of the stack configuration on the Ohmic and non-Ohmic resistances as well as the performance of RED were systematically studied by using in situ electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Three different parameters (membrane type, number of cell pairs and spacer design) were controlled. The Ohmic and non-Ohmic resistances were evaluated for RED stacks equipped with two types of commercial membranes (Type I and Type II) supplied by Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe B.V: Type I Fuji membranes displayed higher Ohmic and non-Ohmic resistances than Type II membranes, which was mainly attributed to the difference in fixed charge density. The output power of the stack was observed to decrease with the increasing number of cell pairs mainly due to the increase in ionic shortcut currents. With the reduction in spacer thickness from 750 to 200 µm, the permselectivity of membranes in the stack decreased from 0.86 to 0.79 whereas the energy efficiency losses increased from 31% to 49%. Overall, the output of the present study provides a basis for understanding the impact of stack design on internal losses during the scaling-up of RED.     

Improvement of aquaculture water quality by mixed Bacillus and its effects on microbial community structure

Microbial remediation, especially the application of probiotics, has recently gained popularity in improving water quality and maintaining aquatic animal health. The efficacy and mechanism of mixed Bacillus for improvement of water quality and its effects on aquatic microbial community structure remain unknown. To elucidate these issues, we applied two groups of mixed Bacillus (Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus subtilis (A0?+?BS) and Bacillus megaterium and Bacillus coagulans (A0?+?BC)) to the aquaculture system of Crucian carp. Our results showed that the improvement effect of mixed Bacillus A0?+?BS on water quality was better than that of A0?+?BC, and the NH₄⁺-N, NO₂^?-N, NO₃^?-N, and total phosphorus (TP) concentrations were reduced by 46.3%, 76.3%, 35.6%, and 80.3%, respectively. In addition, both groups of mixed Bacillus increased the diversity of the bacterial community and decreased the diversity of the fungal community. Microbial community analysis showed that mixed Bacillus A0?+?BS increased the relative abundance of bacteria related with nitrogen and phosphorus removal, such as Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Comamonas, and Stenotrophomonas, but decreased the relative abundance of pathogenic bacteria (Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas) and fungi (Epicoccum and Fusarium). Redundancy analysis showed that NH₄⁺-N, NO₂^?-N, and TP were the primary environmental factors affecting the microbial community in aquaculture water. PICRUST analysis indicated that all functional pathways in the A0?+?BS group were richer than those in other groups. These results indicated that mixed Bacillus A0?+?BS addition produced good results in reducing nitrogenous and phosphorus compounds and shaped a favorable microbial community structure to further improve water quality.

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Removal and recovery of vanadium from waste by chemical precipitation,adsorption, solvent extraction,remediation, photo-catalyst reduction and membrane filtration. A review

At low concentrations, vanadium is essential for cell growth, yet vanadium is harmful to human beings, animals and plants at high concentrations. Therefore, vanadium should be removed from wastewater and solid waste to avoid pollution and to recycle vanadium in the context of the circular economy. Here we review aqueous vanadium species and techniques to remove vanadium such as adsorption, remediation, chemical precipitation, solvent extraction, photo-catalyst reduction and membrane filtration.