Practical environmental monitoring of major construction projects

Independent teams undertook environmental monitoring of particular concentrations of major construction projects forming part of Hong Kong’s U.S. $20 billion airport infrastructure programme located in dense urban areas. The team combination of environmental specialists with experienced civil engineers enabled pragmatic mitigation measures to be developed and accepted by the construction personnel with the result that potentially significant adverse impacts were averted. The authors discuss the mechanism and success of this innovative approach.     

不对称信息下的排污监督与管理

环境管理是政府参与环境治理的重要途径，由于信息不对称，环境管理部门对违规排污企业的排放监督问题一直是监察工作的难点。本文利用完全信息静态博弈模型对企业偷排机率进行了理论分析和实证研究。结论表明：增加排污费收取、加大处罚力度及减少监察部门的监察成本将有助于对企业偷排行为的治理，从而达到环境质量治理目标。     

南昌台气氡异常核实

前兆观测资料异常产生的原因总体可分为两大类:观测物理量自身变化和外部因素影响,后者即通常所称的干扰.要提取出观测资料中有价值的震兆信息,必须首先将干扰剔除,但由于前兆干扰成因本身具有复杂性和多样性,并随不同测项、不同环境而存在个体差异,故要求异常核实工作深入、细致、全面、客观.本文通过一个实例,详细介绍了异常核实的思路和流程,并确定此次异常为仪器干扰,不属于震兆异常.     

泾县地震台地磁FHD仪器房建设几点体会

地磁数字化观测室是要求很高的永久性用房,对建筑物磁性水平有严格的规定,在建设中必须把握好每一个细节,建筑物才能满足仪器工作的磁性环境要求.本文结合FHD探头房建设工作中遇到的问题,介绍了在磁性检测工作中的一些经验,有借鉴意义.     

SO2和氟化物对农作物危害的鉴别与防治

Ｓ烽氟化物对农作物的危害可通过症状、镜检和受害叶片的化学分析来鉴别，并从风向、与污染源距离、障碍物和叶片成熟程度几方面作物病虫等影响因素相区别。排放浓度、接触时和作物本身抗性危害程度的主要因素。应从治理污染、选种抗性强树木、避开作物敏感生育期合理种植、加强施肥等方面采取措施加以防治。     

加入WTO后我国环境服务业发展的新思路

中国即将加入WTO，对中国环境服务业来说挑战与机遇共存。中国环境服务业是一个很新的领域，近年有所发展但还存在着很多问题。中国环境服务业应充分利用加入WTO的难得机遇，尽快从政策、管理制度、结构、技术等多方面进行调整，利用内外部双重动力，推动我国环境服务业有更大地发展。     

Hydrogen storage and distribution systems

Hydrogen storage and transportation or distribution is closely linked together. Hydrogen can be distributed continuously in pipelines or batch wise by ships, trucks, railway or airplanes. All batch transportation requires a storage system but also pipelines can be used as pressure storage system. Hydrogen exhibits the highest heating value per weight of all chemical fuels. Furthermore, hydrogen is regenerative and environment friendly. There are two reasons why hydrogen is not the major fuel of toady’s energy consumption: First of all, hydrogen is just an energy carrier. And, although it is the most abundant element in the universe, it has to be produced, since on earth it only occurs in the form of water. This implies that we have to pay for this energy, which results in a difficult economic task, because since the industrialization we are used to consuming energy for free. The second difficulty with hydrogen as an energy carrier is the low critical temperature of 33 K, i.e. hydrogen is a gas at room temperature. For mobile and in many cases also for stationary applications the volumetric and gravimetric density of hydrogen in a storage system is crucial. Hydrogen can be stored by six different methods and phenomena: high pressure gas cylinders (up to 800 bar), liquid hydrogen in cryogenic tanks (at 21 K), adsorbed hydrogen on materials with a large specific surface area (at T < 100 K), absorbed on interstitial sites in a host metal (at ambient pressure and temperature), chemically bond in covalent and ionic compounds (at ambient pressure), oxidation of reactive metals e.g. Li, Na, Mg, Al, Zn with water. These metals easily react with water to the corresponding hydroxide and liberate the hydrogen from the water. Finally, the metal hydroxides can be thermally reduced to the metals in a solar furnace.     

"绿色会计"理论初探

由于自然资源的掠夺性开发和以牺牲环境为代价赚取经济利益最大化的现象还不同程度存在,使扣除经济活动中投入的环境成本后的国民生产总值--绿色GDP得到普遍关注.绿色会计是为保护生态环境而研究生态环境成本和价值、提供生态环境变化信息的环境会计,已越来越受到人们关注.文章就绿色会计概念、目标、主体、客体、科目设置及信息披露作为重点,进行了初步探讨.     

氧化法处理对氯氰苄废水

针对对氯氰苄生产废水中氰化物浓度较高,提出了次氯酸钠氧化法治理工艺.实践表明,经该工艺处理,废水中COD、氰化物等污染物指标能达到GB8978-1996<污水综合排放标准>一级排放标准要求,除氰效果明显,具有显著的环境和经济效益.     

Prenatal diagnosis of β-thalassaemia in Mediterranean populations by dot blot analysis with DNA amplification and allele specific oligonucleotide probes

In this study, we describe a simple strategy to detect β-thalassaemia mutations in prospective parents and to make prenatal diagnosis in pregnancies at risk in the Mediterranean population. Screening of prospective parents is carried out by dot blot analysis on enzymatically amplified DNA with a set of oligonucleotide probes complementary to the most common mutations in this population. Prenatal diagnosis is accomplished by the same procedure on enzymatically amplified amniocyte or trophoblast DNA. The main advantages of this procedure are the simplicity, sensitivity (0.05 μg of DNA), and rapidity (12–24 h). Further simplification is obtained by amplification of the DNA from crude amniotic cell lysate. The very low amount of fetal material necessary for this analysis eliminates the need to culture amniotic fluid cells and may decrease the fetal loss rate associated with trophoblast sampling. The number of specific DNA sequences obtained by the amplification procedure allowed us to use non-radioactive labelled oligonucleotide probes, which have several advantages compared to radioactive probes.