电催化氧化阳极制备及其降酚特性

以自制Ti基SnO2/Sb2O3/IrO2镀层形稳电极(Dimensionless Stable Anode)为阳极,采用电催化氧化法处理模拟含酚废水.通过涂层分析和电化学性能测试表征了自制电极特性,考察了电解质类型和浓度、电流密度、苯酚初始浓度及体系初始pH值等因素对苯酚氧化过程的影响,并探讨其降解动力学规律.结果表明,自制电极是以SnO2为基础的纳米级固熔体氧化物电极且具有较好的表面结构,运行稳定性较好.苯酚的降解主要依赖于以NaCl为电解质时产生的氯系活性物质的间接氧化作用.随着电解质浓度及电流密度的增加,苯酚降解速率随之增大;而苯酚的初始浓度越大,降解速率越慢.体系初始pH对过程影响不明显.苯酚的降解过程符合一级反应动力学。     

Risk Removed? Steps Towards Building Trust in Humanitarian Mine Action

This article examines the role of building trust in Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA). The role of trust following a mine-clearance operation is largely an unexplored region. Drawing on case studies from Angola, Mozambique and Afghanistan, the article explores how trust can be understood in the context of humanitarian initiatives such as landmine clearance, and outlines the challenges associated with building trust among populations with experience of armed conflict. Because trust is difficult to re-establish following a war, the argument presented here suggests that one way in which this can be done is through building relationships at the organisational and interpersonal levels. The analysis reviews specific measures that mine-action agencies have used to build trust, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. The analysis concludes by suggesting general guidelines for how mine-action practitioners can facilitate trust, and by outlining some promising avenues for future research.     

Experimental measurement and modeling of the rate of absorption of carbon dioxide by aqueous ammonia

In this work, the rate of absorption of carbon dioxide by aqueous ammonia solvent has been studied by applying a newly built wetted wall column. The absorption rate in aqueous ammonia was measured at temperatures from 279 to 304 K for 1 to 10 wt% aqueous ammonia with loadings varying from 0 to 0.8 mol CO₂/mol NH₃. The absorption rate in 30 wt% aqueous mono-ethanolamine (MEA) was measured at 294 and 314 K with loadings varying from 0 to 0.4 as comparison.It was found that at 304 K, the rate of absorption of carbon dioxide by 10 wt% NH₃ solvent was comparable to the rates for 30 wt% MEA at 294 and 314 K (a typical absorption temperature for this process). The absorption rate using ammonia was however significantly lower at temperatures of 294 K and lower as applied in the Chilled Ammonia Process. However, at these low temperatures, the rate of absorption in ammonia has only a small temperature dependency.The rate of absorption decreases strongly with decreasing ammonia concentrations and increasing CO₂ loadings.The rate of absorption of carbon dioxide by aqueous ammonia solvent was modeled using the measurements of the unloaded solutions and the zwitter-ion mechanism. The model could successfully predict the experimental measurements of the absorption rate of CO₂ in loaded ammonia solutions.     

Development of Restoration of Raw Material Pits in Denmark

The restoration of raw material pits in Denmark has changed over the last 50 years due to economic development, excavation technology and planning policies and, to some extent, a changed attitude to the environment and nature. These developments are described and commented on.     

Inferring episodic atmospheric iron fluxes in the Western South Atlantic

Iron (Fe) and other trace elements such as Zn, Mn, Ni and Cu are known as key-factors in marine biogeochemical cycles. It is believed that ocean primary productivity blooms in iron deficient regions can be triggered by iron in aeolian dust. Up to now, scarce aerosol elemental composition, based on measurements over sea at the Western South Atlantic (WSA), exist. An association between the Patagonian semi-desert dust/Fe and chlorophyll-a variability at the Argentinean continental shelf is essentially inferred from models. We present here experimental data of Fe enriched aerosols over the WSA between latitudes 22°S–62°S, during 4 oceanographic campaigns between 2002 and 2005. These data allowed inferring the atmospheric Fe flux onto different latitudinal bands which varied from 30.4 to 1688 nmolFe m^?2 day^?1 (October 29th–November 15th, 2003); 5.83–1586 nmolFe m^?2 day^?1 (February 15th–March 6th, 2004) and 4.73–586 nmolFe m^?2 day^?1(October 21st–November 5th, 2005).