Improving enterprise competitive advantage with industrial symbiosis: case study of a smeltery in China

Industrial symbiosis, a subfield of industrial ecology, focuses on transforming the waste of one firm into the valuable input of another, which improves the competitive advantages of supply chain by reducing production cost and improving environmental performance. Considering the specific situation where there are so many state-owned big company groups in China, this paper utilizes the ideas of constructing an industrial symbiosis among different firms, and does a case study on applying the concept into the inner relationships' reconstruction among different production systems in a big state-owned smeltery in South-west China. Three kinds of approaches are explored: 1) recycling and reusing the release; 2) concentrating and abstracting metals from the residues; 3) extending the product chain for value-added products. The results show that it can effectively improve the competitive advantage of the enterprise in terms of decreasing production cost and improving environmental performance.     

Efficient removal of cadmium ions from water by adsorption on a magnetic carbon aerogel

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Carbon aerogels are attracting much attention as adsorbents due to their high specific surface and large accessible pores. Herein, we describe a...     

Isolation and characterization of hydrophilic dissolved organic matter in waters by ion exchange solid phase extraction followed by high resolution mass spectrometry

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a complex substance occurring in marine and freshwater environments. DOM has many functions that modify physical, chemical and...     

Environmental friendly leaching reagent for cobalt and lithium recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries

We investigated an environmentally friendly leaching process for the recovery of cobalt and lithium from the cathode active materials of spent lithium-ion batteries. The easily degradable organic acid DL-malic acid (C₄H₅O₆) was used as a leaching reagent. The structural, morphology of the cathode materials before and after leaching were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). The amount of Co and Li present in the leachate was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS). Conditions for achieving a recovery of more than 90 wt.% Co and nearly 100 wt.% Li were determined experimentally by varying the concentrations of leachant, time and temperature of the reaction as well as the initial solid-to-liquid ratio. We found that hydrogen peroxide in a DL-malic acid solution is an effective reducing agent because it enhances the leaching efficiency. Leaching with 1.5 M DL-malic acid, 2.0 vol.% hydrogen peroxide and a S:L of 20 g L^?1 in a batch extractor results in a highly efficient recovery of the metals within 40 min at 90 °C.     

长江湖北段干堤整险加固的现状与思考

通过对１９９８ 年长江全流域特大洪水成因和汛在贯彻中央“３２”字治水方针，采用新技术、新方法、新工艺、新材料整治险工险段，加固长江干堤进展情况的调查与分析，阐述了利用高新技术对长江干堤进行整险加固的必要性和可能性及其现状，并就今后如何采用高新技术加固长江干堤，确保堤防工程体系工程质量，建立相应的安全实时监测体系和开展防汛抗洪中的关键实用技术研究开发如基于３Ｓ技术的雨情、汛情、工情、灾情的预测、预报及评估、决策支撑体系的应用与推广，堤防工程隐患的探测、监视、诊断与险情、险段的抢护整治加固材料和技术的开发与推广，洪泛敏感区工农业结构和种养模式的优化、示范与推广等等问题，提出了建设性意见     

Responses of plant functional groups to natural nitrogen fertility on an alpine grassland in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau

Species distribution is often closely associated with soil nutrients in terrestrial ecosystem. In contrast to most manipulated N (nitrogen) experimental studies, there are few observation experiments examining the distribution of species or functional groups along a natural soil N gradient. Alpine meadows with higher soil spatial heterogeneity at fine scale, which have a large gradient in soil N gradient, provides an ideal system to examine the distribution of species or functional groups. Here we used redundancy analysis (RDA) to examine the relationships between soil and plant properties in northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over two years. The results showed the relative biomass of forbs increased, while those of legumes and grasses decreased with the soil N availability. This suggests that legumes and grasses had stronger tolerance to infertile soils than forbs, which may due to the N₂-fixed for legumes and high nutrient use efficiency for grasses. Furthermore, the positive significant relationships between the percentage of legumes biomass and N: P (phosphorus) ratio were found in the whole community and non-legumes, confirming the presence of legumes improved the vegetation N status even for non-legumes.     

制冷剂二氟甲烷热解生成氟化氢的实验研究

空调制冷剂二氟甲烷(R32)是R22的替代制冷剂之一,其分子中含有氟元素,受热可产生剧毒物质氟化氢(HF),一旦泄漏分解,将会对人员造成极大危害.首次通过实验研究了R32泄漏后的受热分解情况,利用激光气体分析仪,测量了不同工况下HF的实时浓度,分析了R32受热分解的影响因素.结果表明R32泄漏后,在受热状态下很容易产生HF,HF浓度随着泄漏量和受热状态的变化而异,浓度可达1000ppm以上；研究结果可为含氟制冷剂的应用提供技术支持.     

围油栏在急流溢油应用中存在的问题与应对措施研究

分析了围油栏在急流溢油应用中存在的四种典型问题:溢油逃溢、溢油泄漏、溢油飞溅、围油栏不稳定性,研究讨论了四种相应的围油栏的应对措施,包括围油栏与水流成一定角度布放、围油栏以一定速度相对水流运动、采用急流分流器系统、实行多级重叠布放围油栏、优选围油栏以及围油栏顶部底部设置绳索,为急流条件下溢油污染的防治提供参考与借鉴。     

基于动土压力响应特性的黄土滑坡振动台试验研究∗

为了探讨地震作用下动土压力沿高程和滑面的响应规律,通过大型振动台实验输入X向和Z向地震波,输入幅值逐级增大直到边坡破坏,对沿滑面和沿高程的5个土压力传感器的动土压力峰值分布规律进行分析,并利用基于小波变换的能量提取工具对加载X向和Z向的EL波进行分解,分析其在不同频带的动力响应特性,并进行了加速度峰值分析与动土压力峰值的组合响应分析。研究结果表明:(1)土压力沿高程和滑面都呈现非线性增加的趋势,加载X向地震波对滑面土体应力影响较为显著,而加载Z向地震波对坡顶面附近土体应力影响较为显著,且加载Z向地震波土压力沿高程放大趋势比加载X向地震波更明显;(2)输入加速度峰值0.6g时,滑体开始向下滑动,贯通破裂面的产生和动土压力峰值以及加速度峰值同时突变可作为边坡破坏的依据;(3)使用基于小波变换的能量提取工具对各频段的能量进行提取,发现第一频段的能量占比在95%以上,说明第一频段内土体响应最为剧烈,黄土边坡对地震波运动过程中高频部分具有"滤波作用",因此进行防护设计时应把这一现象作为设计的考虑因素之一。     

夏季大辽河河口区水体反硝化及其影响因素

于2013年夏季对大辽河及其河口区水体反硝化过程的环境效应,包括反硝化氮损失比例、N2O产生比例等进行了研究讨论.结果表明,夏季大辽河干流及其河口区氮、磷的主要赋存形态为溶解态.干流营养盐浓度显著高于河口区(P0.05).河口区营养盐浓度降低受海水稀释和其它生物地球化学过程的共同影响.整体上研究区域内水体溶存N2净增量(ΔN2)介于-11.01~71.37μmol·L-1,且负值主要出现在大辽河干流水体;表明干流水体N2的消耗量高于反硝化作用的产生量.河口区N2O占反硝化总产物(N2O+N2)的比例为0.007%,而N2O释放通量占总通量(N2O+N2)的比例为0.04%.本研究ΔN2与DO不相关,而与水温和盐度显著正相关,与NO-3显著负相关;表明反硝化过程不完全受控于DO水平,且硝化-反硝化耦合作用为河口区的主要反硝化机制.基于河口区N2净增量与水体氮浓度比例估算得到,大辽河河口区约26%的TN、37%的DIN、43%的NO-3可通过反硝化过程得以去除.