Multivariate Condition Assessment of Watersheds with Linked Micromaps

A challenge for statewide stream monitoring is visualizing the spatial and statistical characteristics of such data to compare the biotic condition of watersheds and relate that condition to watershed‐level estimates of instream variables. We used linked micromaps on stream survey data of 25 subbasins (766‐5,982 km²) for biotic condition, nine water quality, and two habitat variables. Subbasin biotic condition was negatively correlated with conductivity, magnesium and sulfate concentrations, and weakly positively correlated with habitat scores of sedimentation and embeddedness, with higher scores indicating better habitat. Positive spatial autocorrelation was detected among the subbasins in both habitat variables, iron concentration, pH, and exceedances of fecal coliform criteria as shown in linked micromaps. A spatial principal components analysis reduced the 11 environmental variables to two principal axes. The first axis synthesized a gradient of water quality and habitat scores among the subbasins. Subbasin biotic condition regressed on first axis subbasin scores had a significant, negative slope and accounted for 55% of the variation. Subbasins in degraded biotic condition had elevated conductivities and ion concentrations in northern and southern subbasins, and low habitat scores in western subbasins. Through linked micromaps, we compared the biotic condition among subbasins and identified stressors prevalent among subbasins that affected biotic condition.     

Rapid dye degradation with reactive oxidants generated by chloride-induced peroxymonosulfate activation

Transition-metal is known to catalyze peroxymonosulfate (PMS) decomposition to produce sulfate radicals. Here we report reactions between PMS and chloride, without a need of transition metals, also can be used to degrade organic dye pollutant (Rhodamine B, (RhB)). Some important operating parameters, such as dosages of PMS and Cl^?, pH of solution, temperature, ionic strength, and several common cations, were systematically investigated. Almost complete decoloration of RhB was achieved within 5 min ([PMS]?=?0.5 mM, [Cl^?]?=?120 mM, and pH 3.0), and RhB bleaching rate increased with the increased dosages of both PMS and chloride ion, following the pseudo-first-order kinetic model. However, the total organic carbon (TOC) removal results demonstrated that the decoloration of RhB was due to the destruction of chromophore rather than complete degradation. RhB decoloration could be significantly accelerated due to the high ionic strength. Increasing of the reaction temperature from 273 K to 333 K was beneficial to the RhB degradation, and the activation energy was determined to be 32.996 kJ/mol. Bleaching rate of RhB with the examined cations increased with the order of NH₄ ⁺?<?Na⁺?<?K⁺?<?Al³⁺?<?Ca²⁺?<?Mg²⁺. Some major degradation products of RhB were identified by GC-MS. The present study may have active technical implications for the treatment of dyestuff wastewater in practice.     

低温条件下硝化污泥的驯化

为了在低温13～14％下取得较好的硝化效果,分3个温度阶段25℃,16～17℃,13—14℃对活性污泥进行了驯化培养,研究了进水氨氮浓度和混合液COD对硝化污泥的影响。实验结果表明,硝化污泥经过驯化培养后,氨氮去除率可达80％以上,且在DO浓度为2ing／L,pH为6．7～7．5,进水氨氮为300mg／L,混合液COD为80mg／L条件下,硝化污泥能取得较快的增长,氨氮平均去除率可达89％。     

The New Standard Environmental Inventory Questionnaire for Estimation of Indoor Concentrations

Several investigators have developed indoor air quality questionnaires for use in field studies. The approach used in many of them have numerous features in common, but most of them are unique in their content (wording, format, item selection). It is thought that indoor air quality research could be greatly advanced if the primary or fundamental questions and instruments could be consolidated. The use of a basic set of "standard" questions would permit intercomparison of results from different research studies. It is generally agreed that environmental inventory questionnaires (EIQ) help to classify, at least in screening, relative concentration estimates, which precede exposure estimation. Thus, such instruments are not equivalent to monitoring for exposure assessment. However, data linkage and mega data bases are important for some comparative analyses of exposure assessment and exposure-response relationships. Standard instruments such as the EIQ are useful as a screening device to precede other tests to allow identification of potentially high exposure situations. They can also amplify information from other tests. General usage of standard questionnaires and protocols can lead to cumulative improvements in data collection, specificity and effectiveness. This has been the rationale for the present efforts by investigators to form a standardized environmental inventory questionnaire, under the auspices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gas Research Institute (GRI), and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).     

水化深度处理渗滤液尾水中的有机物

利用水泥的水化过程易受有机物影响的特点,采用硅酸盐水泥深度处理了垃圾渗滤液膜生物反应器(MBR)工艺出水,考察了不同因素,如投加量、初始pH、反应时间及振荡速率等对于渗滤液尾水中有机物的去除效果以及最佳工艺条件,并分析了渗滤液尾水中有机物的去除机理。结果表明,水化过程对渗滤液尾水中的有机物去除性能良好,且对不同有机物具有一定的选择性,尤其对具有近紫外区(200～400 nm)吸收峰特征的有机物去除效果更佳,同时发现,当投加量为50 g/L、pH=8.3(原渗滤液pH)、反应时间为24 h和振荡速度为200 r/min时,去除效果最佳,其COD、TOC和UV254的平均去除率分别达到55.6%、62.1%和68.8%。     

实验室信息管理系统在环境保护领域的建设与应用探讨

介绍了环境监测实验室的业务特点;概述了国内外实验室信息管理系统(LIMS)的发展现状;选择了适合环境监测业务的LIMS软件产品,并在此基础上作进一步开发以满足环境监测业务的可拓展性;提出了LIMS需要完善功能的建议.同时,指出在环境保护领域引入LIMS,在一定程度上提高了分析数据的准确性和环境监测实验室管理水平.     

浙江某水库大坝渗流安全综合分析

对浙江省某水库大坝的测压管观测资料进行了分析,建立了用来预报测点水位并能反映大坝实际渗流性态的统计模型。在此基础上结合观测资料采用有限元方法反演了坝体、坝基各分区的渗透系数,预测未来高水位时大坝的渗流性态,并建立了物理概念明确、预报效果较好的渗压确定性模型。     

旅游景区标识系统的个性化实现路径研究——以三峡车溪民俗旅游区为例

旅游景区标识系统在展示景区形象、引导和管理旅游者、提升旅游者体验等方面具有重要作用,规范化与个性化是其设计的基本要求.在阐明景区标识系统的个性化内涵基础上,探讨了基于文化符号的个性化实现路径;以三峡车溪民俗旅游区为例,对其标识系统进行了个性化改进设计,以期为景区标识系统个性化建设提供理论指导和经验借鉴.     

活性和非活性海藻吸附重金属的研究

用藻类处理重金属废水是最有效的生物吸附法之一,也是近年来被广泛关注的水处理技术。重点研究了活性海藻和非活性海藻吸附重金属的机理,并简述了海藻的预处理方式及固定化稳定化在吸附过程中的作用,浅述了几种常见的吸附模型及应用,分析了藻类吸附重金属存在的问题以及今后研究方向。     

Phosphorus runoff losses from subsurface-applied poultry litter on coastal plain soils

The application of poultry litter to soils is a water quality concern on the Delmarva Peninsula, as runoff contributes P to the eutrophic Chesapeake Bay. This study compared a new subsurface applicator for poultry litter with conventional surface application and tillage incorporation of litter on a Coastal Plain soil under no-till management. Monolith lysimeters (61 cm by 61 cm by 61 cm) were collected immediately after litter application and subjected to rainfall simulation (61 mm h(-1) 1 h) 15 and 42 d later. In the first rainfall event, subsurface application of litter significantly lowered total P losses in runoff (1.90 kg ha(-1)) compared with surface application (4.78 kg ha(-1)). Losses of P with subsurface application were not significantly different from disked litter or an unamended control. By the second event, total P losses did not differ significantly between surface and subsurface litter treatments but were at least twofold greater than losses from the disked and control treatments. A rising water table in the second event likely mobilized dissolved forms of P in subsurface-applied litter to the soil surface, enriching runoff water with P. Across both events, subsurface application of litter did not significantly decrease cumulative losses of P relative to surface-applied litter, whereas disking the litter into the soil did. Results confirm the short-term reduction of runoff P losses with subsurface litter application observed elsewhere but highlight the modifying effect of soil hydrology on this technology's ability to minimize P loss in runoff.