The 10th International Symposium on Interactions Between Sediment and Water was held in Lake Bled, Slovenia from August 28 to September
3, 2005. Approximately 155 delegates, attended the symposium where talks and posters addressed five themes incorporating the
physical, chemical, biological, and/or management aspects of lacustrine, reverine, estuarine, and/or marine sediment were
presented. A review of the symposium themes and plenary talks was provided. As well, this symposiums’ focus is put into context
with respect to historical changes noted over the 29 years that the International Association for Sediment Water Science (IASWS)
has been meeting. 相似文献
Offshore oil and gas platforms are well known for their compact geometry, high degree of congestion, limited ventilation and difficult escape routes. A small mishap under such conditions can quickly escalate into a catastrophe. Among all the accidental process-related events occurring offshore, fire is the most frequently reported. It is, therefore, necessary to study the behavior of fires and quantity the hazards posed by them in order to complete a detailed quantitative risk assessment. While there are many consequence models available to predict fire hazards-varying from point source models to highly complex computational fluid dynamic models—only a few have been validated for the unique conditions found offshore.
In this paper, we have considered fire consequence modeling as a suite of sub-models such as individual fire models, radiation model, overpressure model, smoke and toxicity models and human impact models. This comprehensive suite of models was then revised by making the following modifications: (i) fire models: existing fire models have been reviewed and the ones most suitable for offshore conditions were selected; (ii) overpressure impact model: a model has been developed to quantify the overpressure effects from fires to investigate the possible damage from the hot combustion gases released in highly confined compartments; (iii) radiation model: instead of a point/area model, a multipoint grid-based model has been adopted for better modeling and analysis of radiation heat flux consequences. A comparison of the performance of the revised models with the ones used in a commercial software package for offshore risk assessment was also carried out and is discussed in the paper. 相似文献
ABSTRACT: An extensive group of datasets was analyzed to examine factors affecting widths of streams and rivers. Results indicate that vegetative controls on channel size are scale dependent. In channels with watersheds greater than 10 to 100 km2, widths are narrower in channels with thick woody bank vegetation than in grass lined or nonforested banks. The converse is true in smaller streams apparently due to interactions between woody debris, shading, understory vegetation, rooting characteristics, and channel size. A tree based statistical method (regression tree) is introduced and tested as a tool for identifying thresholds of response and interpreting interactions between variables. The implications of scale dependent controls on channel width are discussed in the context of stable channel design methods and development of regional hydraulic geometry curves. 相似文献
Environment, Development and Sustainability - The increasing mortality of COVID-19 can aggravate soil contamination by metals, harmful to the health of the population, requiring new projects for... 相似文献
Environmental radionuclides can be employed as tracers of sediment movement and delivery to water bodies such as lakes and reservoirs. The chronologies of sediments that have accumulated in the Cordeaux reservoir in Sydney, Australia, were determined by the rate of change of (210)Pb(ex) with depth and indicate slow accretion in the reservoir. The ratio of enrichment of radionuclides in sediment cores to (210)Pb(ex) and (137)Cs concentrations in a reference soil sample within the Cordeaux catchment indicates that the dominant source of sediment in the Cordeaux reservoir is surface erosion (detachment and removal of sediment at depths less than 30 cm). However, in the Kembla Creek arm of the reservoir a mixture of sources was detected and includes sheet and rill erosion together with sub-soil contributions. Implications for the utility of these radionuclide sedimentation assessments, especially where samples are limited, are that well-constrained chronologies and sources of soil erosion are facilitated. 相似文献
This paper evaluates the use of a nickel nanoparticle (NiNP) interlayer for making hermetic joints in 316L stainless steel substrates via diffusion brazing. Different NiNP inks were prepared using commercial nanopowder (~9 nm) and in-house synthesized nanoparticles. Syringe pump deposition of ~9 nm NiNP ink and diffusion brazing at 900 °C for 30 min under 2 MPa resulted in a hermetic joint up to the tested pressure of 70 psi. In-house synthesis of NiNPs was carried out in ethylene glycol by the reduction of NiCl2·6H2O in the presence of hydrazine (N2H4) as a reducing agent. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results confirm the presence of pure fcc-Ni with an average particle size of 5.4 ± 0.9 nm. An as-synthesized suspension of NiNPs was patterned onto 316L stainless steel laminae via automated dispensing to a thickness of ~3 μm and bonded at 800 °C for 30 min at a pressure of 2 MPa. The diffusion-brazed test article was also found to be hermetic up to 70 psi. An examination of the bond line using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed good uniformity and continuity. 相似文献
The known chemical basis of diverse avian eggshell coloration is generated by the same two classes of tetrapyrrole pigments
in most living birds. We aimed to extend the evolutionary scope of these patterns by detecting pigments from extinct birds’
eggs. In our samples biliverdin was successfully extracted from subfossil shell fragments of the blue-green egg-laying upland
moa Megalapteryx didinus, while protoporphyrin was extracted from the beige eggs of two other extinct moa species. Our data on pigment detection from
eggshells of other extant paleognath birds, together with published information on other modern lineages, confirm tetrapyrroles
as ubiquitous and conserved pigments contributing to diverse eggshell colours throughout avian evolution. 相似文献