掺硼氧化银光催化剂制备及降解模拟印染废水

采用离子交换共沉淀法制备掺硼氧化银光催化剂并进行相应表征,以甲基橙为降解对象对其光催化氧化性能进行考察,并将其用于可见光下降解多种有机物及模拟印染废水。实验结果表明:掺硼氧化银光催化剂能带带隙为1.29 eV,具有很好的光催化氧化-还原能力,可见光下降解甲基橙,光照120 s可实现甲基橙完全降解;重复使用活性保持稳定;对不同有机物均可实现光催化氧化完全降解;模拟印染废水降解实验证实,在pH值5~10范围内,可见光照射下氧化银光催化剂在25 min内可实现混合染料的完全降解。掺硼氧化银是一种具有应用前景的可见光光催化剂。     

鼠李糖脂在铜绿假单胞菌NY3代谢烃过程中的生理作用

为了解鼠李糖脂在菌代谢烃过程中所起的具体作用,对NY3菌体生理生化指标进行测定,研究了NY3菌降解烃过程中,鼠李糖脂促进烃降解与细胞生理特性变化规律的相关性。结果表明,投加60、100和140 mg/L鼠李糖脂,能使正十六烷降解率分别提高23.7%、48.3%和32.2%,且产酸明显。鼠李糖脂能加快疏水性有机物的传质速度,与未加鼠李糖脂相比,鼠李糖脂浓度为100和140 mg/L时,菌细胞内积聚的正十六烷量增加12.5%和37.69%。鼠李糖脂存在下,NY3菌细胞内正十六烷吸收是一个积累和消耗相互交替的动态过程。鼠李糖脂使菌体细胞中疏水性脂类的相对含量和细胞表面的负电荷明显增加,但使所生长的细胞内脂多糖含量明显减少,生长过程投加鼠李糖脂浓度为60、100、140和200 mg/L时,细胞中脂多糖含量分别减少45.65%、58.13%、45.61%、和59.44%。因此,鼠李糖脂能加快NY3菌对十六烷的降解,同时对代谢过程中菌体的生理生化特性有明显的改变。     

垃圾填埋场HDPE膜漏洞密度及其影响因素的统计分析

采用偶极子方法对全国不同地区的80个垃圾填埋场进行了防渗层事故性破损的检测,根据检测结果计算了不同填埋场的漏洞密度;通过对漏洞密度数据进行前处理、拟合优度检验,确定了我国填埋场漏洞密度服从参数为(25.62, 0.88)的Gamma分布;在此基础上对漏洞密度的影响因素进行了统计分析,结果表明,具有工程施工资质且具有专业防渗施工经验的公司其漏洞产生量仅为19.1个/万m2,而没有资质的公司其漏洞产生量高达37.6个/万m2;采用卵石作为导排层的填埋场漏洞数量明显小于采用导排层的填埋场;采用2 mm厚土工膜的填埋场漏洞数量远小于采用1.5 mm厚土工膜的填埋场。     

南京北郊大气气溶胶的吸湿性观测研究

大气气溶胶的吸湿性不仅影响气溶胶的光学特性进而影响大气能见度,并且影响气溶胶的直接和间接气候效应.本文利用加湿串联差分迁移分析仪H-TDMA,于2012年5~7月在南京地区,对40~200nm大气气溶胶粒子在不同相对湿度下的吸湿增长因子进行了观测研究.统计结果表明:在90%相对湿度下,颗粒物的吸湿增长因子GF多为双峰分布,分为GF1.15的强吸湿组分.弱吸湿组分的吸湿增长因子(GFLH)在1.10~1.14之间;对应的强吸湿组分增长因子(GFMH )范围在1.47~1.58之间变化.相同粒径下的离散程度(σ)强吸湿组大于弱吸湿组,说明强吸湿组的粒子化学成分更复杂,异质性更强.相对湿度的变化对粒子吸湿增长的影响与粒子大小及化学组分有关,爱根核模态和积聚模态粒子在相同的相对湿度下潮解点不同,硝酸铵和硫酸铵是颗粒物中的主要吸湿成分.对不同天气条件下的气溶胶吸湿性分析,发现污染期间的吸湿增长因子(GF)和强吸湿组的数目比例(NFMH)都高于清洁期间,这与当时的气象条件以及粒子的内外部混合状态相关.观测还发现气溶胶粒子的吸湿性有明显的日变化特征,白天光照所引发的光化学反应以及混合层演变而造成粒子的吸湿性较强.机动车尾气排放的黑碳等不吸湿或弱吸湿颗粒物也会因为影响颗粒物的化学成分并进而对气溶胶吸湿性产生影响.     

Performance of three-phase three-dimensional electrode reactor for the reduction of COD in simulated wastewater-containing phenol

The removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) from wastewater-containing phenol was investigated using three-phase three-dimensional electrode reactor. Special attention was paid to experimentally probe the performance of the reactor in COD removal in the process of repeated batch runs. The experimental results showed that the reactor could remove COD from phenol-containing wastewater much more efficiently than both granulated activated carbon (GAC) adsorption bed and conventional three-dimensional electrode. For 200th batch run, the three-phase three-dimensional electrode reactor with an airflow of 5 l min(-1) and a cell voltage of 30 V could remove 1350 ppm COD from the wastewater in 30 min while conventional three-dimensional electrode reactor with a same cell voltage and GAC adsorption bed with a same airflow only could remove 610 and 1000 ppm, respectively, at the same reaction duration. Although it was found that COD removal decreased with increasing repeated batch runs in our experimental range, due to adsorption saturation of GAC and electrode passivation, the extent of decrease for the three-phase three-dimensional electrode is much less than those for conventional three-dimensional electrodes and GAC adsorption beds. The passivated reactor could be partly re-activated by electrolysis in the presence of MnO2.     

Concentration,sources, influencing factors and hazards of heavy metals in indoor and outdoor dust: A review

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Heavy metals are a common class of toxic contaminants in soil, water and air, yet their occurrence in indoor environments is less known. Heavy metals enter...     

Mechanical behavior of typical hazardous waste and its influence on landfill stability during operation

The stability of hazardous waste (HW) landfill is a major security risk to the landfill environmental safety. The mechanical behavior of waste controls many aspects of landfill design and operation, including stability and settlement issues and the integrity of geosynthetic and liner components. This study presents the results of a laboratory experiment to learn the mechanical properties of HW collected from the Hangzhou HW landfill. Measured mechanical behavior was compared with results for municipal solid waste (MSW) to assess their discrepancies. The particle size of HW was analyzed by the sieving and hydrometer methods. Because HW comes primarily from industrial plants in the form of sludge or slag, their particle sizes are generally smaller than those of MSW. This study indicates that the shear strength parameters of HW are more sensitive to the methods of testing and calculation than those of MSW. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the safety factor of a landfill is affected by the mechanical properties of HW, especially cohesion and friction angle. Because of the lower particle size and wider compression ratio, compared to MSW, an HW landfill should be taken more care in its operational procedures so as to increase its stability.     

Distribution and chemical partitioning of heavy metals in marine near-shore sediment cores: a case study from the Xugou, Lianyungang, China

The concentrations and chemical partitioning of heavy metals (Co, Cr, Ni, Zn, Cu, and Pb) in the marine near-shore sediment cores were investigated. Typically, the mean concentrations from Core B sediment samples were 98.6, 21.1, 47.0, 46.4, 107.6, and 31.9 mg kg^???1 for Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Pb, respectively. The heavy metal concentrations were normalized to commonly used reference elements Al, Li, Sc, and total organic carbon. Based on Pearson coefficients, Li was found to be a good normalizer for Co (r?= 0.974), Cr (r?= 0.967), Ni (r?= 0.898), and Zn (r?= 0.929) in 80 sediment samples from three sampling sites. However, the correlation coefficients between Li and Cu, and Li and Pb were relatively low. Multivariate statistic approaches (Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis) were adopted for data treatment, allowing the identification of two main factors controlling the heavy metal variability in the sediments. Heavy metals in the enrichment sections were evaluated by a sequential extraction method for possible chemical forms in sediments. The results showed that the residual, Fe/Mn oxides and Organic/sulfide fractions were dominant geochemical phases in the enriched sections, indicating low bioavailability of heavy metals in sediments.