Analysis of tropospheric ozone concentration on a Western Mediterranean site: Castellon (Spain)

Ozone dynamics in our study area (Castellon, Spain) is both strongly bound to the mesoscale circulations that develop under the effect of high insolation (especially in summer) and conditioned by the morphological characteristics of the Western Mediterranean Basin. In this work we present a preliminary analysis of ozone time series on five locations in Castellon for the period 1997–2003. We study their temporal and spatial variations at different scales: daily, weekly, seasonally and interannually. Because both the O₃ concentration and its temporal variation depend on the topographic location of the observing station, they can show large differences within tens of kilometer. We also contrast the variation in the ozone concentration with the variations found for meteorological variables such as radiation, temperature, relative humidity and recirculation of the air mass. The link between elevated ozone concentrations and high values of the recirculation factor (r=0.7–0.9) shown the importance of recirculating flows on the local air pollution episodes.     

鞍山大气中有机氯农药的污染特征研究

布设鞍钢工业区6个点位,周边2个点位,居民区2个点位和千山对照点等11个点位,分别在采暖期和非采暖期测定大气中有机氯农药的含量,掌握了鞍山市大气中有机氯农药空间和时间变化趋势。全年有机氯农药各组分和ΣOPC浓度最高的功能区均为工业区周边,最低的功能区是千山对照点,六六六、滴滴涕和ΣOPC浓度变化趋势为工业区周边工业区居住区千山对照点,全市各功能区采暖期有机氯农药各组分和ΣOPC总浓度均高于非采暖期。     

长江流域水环境监控体系配置及其关键参数选择原则

在分析长江流域水质污染现状和自动监控系统的配置现状基础上,针对长江流域需要监控的水域,提出了适合长江流域的国家、省、市三级自动监控体系.最后,提出了水质常规监测站的参数配置原则以及应急监测参数配置原则.     

序批式人工湿地冬季低温脱氮的效能研究

针对目前连续流人工湿地脱氮效率低、易堵塞及冬季效能下降的问题,提出了采用新型间歇流序批式人工湿地处理小城镇污水的方案,研究探讨了两级序批式人工湿地在冬季低温条件下,停留时间及排空闲置时间对脱氮效能的影响.试验结果表明,在冬季低温5～10 ℃、每级序批式湿地运行工况为瞬时进水-反应24h-瞬时排水-排空闲置12h、氮负荷为1.92g·m-2·d-1、进水COD、NH 4-N和TN浓度分别为143mg·L-1、27.0mg·L-1和32.0mg·L-1时,出水COD、NH4 -N和TN浓度分别为27mg·L-1、3.9mg·L-1和16.5mg·L-1,COD、NH4 -N和TN的去除率分别为81.12%、85.56%和48.44%.     

氧化沟污泥膨胀和生物泡沫的控制及应用研究

污泥膨胀和生物泡沫现象是众多泥法污水厂常见的运行难题。通过对唐山污水处理厂的氧化沟中膨胀污泥和泡沫中的微生物种类进行了分类鉴定;然后进行小试研究,探索投加次氯酸钠和缩短污泥龄方法控制污泥膨胀和生物泡沫的技术办法;最后将试验研究成果应用到生产实践中。结果表明,投加10mgCl/gMLSS的NaClO和缩短污泥龄到8d均能有效地解决由微丝菌过度增殖造成的污泥膨胀和生物泡沫问题。     

粪大肠菌群快速测定——纸片法的应用

采集苏州具有代表性的地表水水体22个点位的样品,进行粪大肠菌群的测定方法比较,结果表明,《粪大肠菌群快速测定--纸片法》适于测定受粪便污染程度较轻的湖泊水体.但是,该方法的培养时间对阳性管率有明显影响,认为16 h～18 h是比较理想的培养时间.     

改进地渗系统处理分散生活污水启动周期的研究

对传统型的地下渗滤系统进行了改进,建立了一套新型的地下渗滤试验装置.采用两种不同的进出水方式对此渗滤系统的启动周期进行了比较试验,结果表明:在进水CODCr为250～400 mg/L、氨氮为70～lOO mg/L时,初期采用间歇进水的方式可使启动周期缩短为18 d;稳定运行时HRT为6 h,COD去除率可达79%以上.此研究为新型地渗系统的设计提供了思路.     

The effect of migration on the viability,dynamics and structure of two coexisting metapopulations

Two species of butterflies, Euphydryas aurinia and Melitaea phoebe, coexist as two metapopulations in a 38-patch network in Hebei Province, China. A Markovian model, whose transition matrix is the product of two matrices which represent the local extinction and recolonization process respectively, is used to describe the metapopulation dynamics. The application of this model to the metapopulation, consisting of 12 local populations in the northern subregion, shows that the expected life times of E. aurinia and M. phoebe are 160 and 121 years respectively and usually nearly half of the patches are occupied by E. aurinia, while only 1–3 patches are occupied by M. phoebe. We claim that E. aurinia can persist for a long time while M. phoebe faces relatively big extinction risk. By comparing the population dynamics with and without migration, we find M. phoebe benefits much more from migration than E. aurinia. Most patches are occupied mainly by local populations for E. aurinia, while by immigrants from the 8th patch for M. phoebe, meaning that E. aurinia has a classical metapopulation structure while M. phoebe has a source–sink metapopulation structure.     

Experimental investigation of bubbly flow and turbulence in hydraulic jumps

Many environmental problems are linked to multiphase flows encompassing ecological issues, chemical processes and mixing or diffusion, with applications in different engineering fields. The transition from a supercritical flow to a subcritical motion constitutes a hydraulic jump. This flow regime is characterised by strong interactions between turbulence, free surface and air–water mixing. Although a hydraulic jump contributes to some dissipation of the flow kinetic energy, it is also associated with increases of turbulent shear stresses and the development of turbulent eddies with implications in terms of scour, erosion and sediment transport. Despite a number of experimental, theoretical and numerical studies, there is a lack of knowledge concerning the physical mechanisms involved in the diffusion and air–water mixing processes within hydraulic jumps, as well as on the interaction between the free-surface and turbulence. New experimental investigations were undertaken in hydraulic jumps with Froude numbers up to Fr = 8.3. Two-phase flow measurements were performed with phase-detection conductivity probes. Basic results related to the distributions of void fraction, bubble frequency and mean bubble chord length are presented. New developments are discussed for the interfacial bubble velocities and their fluctuations, characterizing the turbulence level and integral time scales of turbulence representing a “lifetime” of the longitudinal bubbly flow structures. The analyses show good agreement with previous studies in terms of the vertical profiles of void fraction, bubble frequency and mean bubble chord length. The dimensionless distributions of interfacial velocities compared favourably with wall-jet equations. Measurements showed high turbulence levels. Turbulence time scales were found to be dependent on the distance downstream of the toe as well as on the distance to the bottom showing the importance of the lower (channel bed) and upper (free surface) boundary conditions on the turbulence structure.     

POLYNOMIAL-BASED DISAGGREGATION OF HOURLY RAINFALL FOR CONTINUOUS HYDROLOGIC SIMULATION1

Hydrologic modeling of urban watersheds for designs and analyses of stormwater conveyance facilities can be performed in either an event-based or continuous fashion. Continuou simulation requires, among other things, the use of a time series of rainfall amounts. However, for urban drainage basins, which are typically small, the temporal resolution of the rainfall time series must be quite fine, and often on the order of 5 to 15 minutes. This poses a significant challenge because rainfall-gauging records are usually kept only for hourly or longer time steps. The time step sizes in stochastic rainfall generators are usually also too large for application to urban runoff modeling situations. Thus, there is a need for methods by which hourly rainfall amounts can be disaggregated to shorter time intervals. This paper presents and compares a number of approaches to this problem, which are based on the use of polynomial approximating functions. Results of these evaluations indicate that a desegregation method presented by Ormsbee (1989) is a relatively good performer when storm durations are short (2 hours), and that a quadratic spline-based approach is a good choice for longer-duration storms. Based on these results, the Ormsbee technique is recommended because it provides good performance, and can be applied easily to long time series of precipitation records. The quadratic spline-based approach is recommended as a close second choice because it performed the best most consistently, but remains more difficult to apply than the Ormsbee technique. Results of this study also indicate that, on average, all of the disaggregation methods evaluated introduce a severe negative bias into maximum rainfall intensities. This is cause for some well-justified concern, as the characteristics of runoff hydrographs are quite sensitive to maximum storm intensities. Thus, there is a need to continue the search for simple yet effective hourly rainfall disaggregation methods.