Scientific collectives in region-building processes

During the last 30 years, growing demand for science-based policy making has contributed to the mobilization of scientific cooperation alongside transnational political arrangements for addressing environmental issues. Following the contemporary trend toward regionalizing environmental policy and practice, many of these scientific joint efforts have focused on a regional scale. This article examines regional scientific cooperation in the context of the institutionalization of mountain regions in Europe. Such cooperation can be observed from the Pyrenees to Central Asia, albeit with a degree of variation that largely remains unexplored in scientific research. Sometimes scientific cooperation served to lay the groundwork of a mountain policy initiative, other times it appeared in its wake; some examples appear as loose networks of individual scientists, others are set up as formalized monitoring and observation centers; finally, some scientific joint efforts are formally linked to, or incorporated in a mountain policy initiative, while others are largely independent. The article proposes a new typology for understanding the interactions between regional scientific mobilization and regional policy making and provides up-to-date portraits of six main cases.     

厌氧-好氧一体式折流板反应器处理淀粉废水的启动运行

采用厌氧-好氧一体式折流板反应器,处理马铃薯淀粉废水,以淀粉废水排放口底泥作为接种污泥,可以实现快速启动。启动过程的结果表明:在温度为2 5℃～35℃,总水力停留时间(HRT)为5 4h ,容积负荷从0 .5kg/ (m3 ·d)逐渐升高到3.0 8kg/ (m3 ·d)时,第11d就将反应器启动成功,前3级厌氧反应器总的去除率达到75 % ,厌氧-好氧一体式折流板反应器总的去除率达到96 %。而后逐渐提高容积负荷,当容积负荷为10 .0kg/ (m3 ·d)时,COD去除率最高为96 % ,出水水质达到或接近国家污水排放二级标准(GB 8978- 96 )。     

全程自养脱氮技术处理高浓度含氮淀粉废水的工程实例

淀粉废水有机氮浓度较高,污水处理采用调节池-厌氧池-全程自养脱氮池-二沉池-混凝沉淀池处理工艺,在进水CODCr<10000mg/L,TN≤600mg/L情况下,处理后CODCr<100mg/L,NH3-N<10mg/L,完全达到预期处理效果。目前国内全程自养脱氮技术(处理超低C/N废水)大都停留在试验阶段,工程化的实例很少。     

EGSB处理玉米淀粉生产废水中试研究

研究了厌氧膨胀颗粒 (EGSB)反应器处理玉米生产废水的运行过程现象 ,结果表明 ,液体表面上升流速是影响EGSB反应器效能的重要参数 ,当进水CODCr为 35 0 0～ 6 5 0 0mg L时 ,液体表面上升流速为 1～ 3 5m h时 ,EGSB反应器处理始终保持在 85 %以上 ,污泥经过选择后能够适应EGSB反应器的运行条件。     

淀粉聚乙烯膜在受控条件下的好氧生物降解

采用土埋、真菌生长和 CO₂ 释放试验分别测定了几种淀粉聚乙烯膜的生物降解性 .试验结果表明 ,膜的生物降解性与膜中的淀粉含量正相关 ,并受膜比面积大小的影响 .在受控条件下 ,含淀粉 6%～ 30 %的膜经 28d降解后 ,降解质量变化率在0.6%～ 12.4%范围内 ,其 CO₂ 释放量为 0.02～ 0.15mg/mg膜 .膜中的聚乙烯组分不仅本身难被生物降解 ,而且还抑制微生物对其淀粉组分的降解 .CO₂ 是淀粉聚乙烯膜好氧生物降解的终产物 ,可以作为评估膜生物降解性的一个可靠指标 .     

絮凝沉降法处理含油废水的絮凝优化复配研究

气浮法是含油废水处理的常用方法,但该法工艺复杂,操作要求高.乌鲁木齐铁路局哈密机务段用气浮法处理含油废水,使用的聚合氯化铝-聚丙烯酰胺絮凝剂配方的效率及安全性欠佳,为此提出了用聚乙烯亚胺-活化硅酸-可溶性淀粉3种絮凝剂复配投加的絮凝沉降法.研究表明,本法可使废水中油的去除率达到93.9%,COD去除率达82.2%,浊度去除率达92.3%,具有去除效率高、无毒安全和处理成本低的优点,有望取代原有方法及药剂配方,具有推广应用价值.     

Sensitivity of a coupled physical–biological model to turbulence: high-frequency simulations in a northern Adriatic station

This paper investigates the impacts of different turbulence models on the biological state at an ocean station in the northern Adriatic sea, named S3, comparing them with other uncertainties inherent to coupled physical–biological simulations. The numerical tool is a 1-D model resulting from the coupling of two advanced numerical models. The hydrodynamic part is modelled using the General Ocean Turbulence Model (www.gotm.net), in a version adopting state-of-the-art second-moment Turbulence Closure Models (TCMs). Marine biogeochemistry is parameterized with the Biogeochemical Flux Model (http://www.bo.ingv.it/bfm), which is a direct descendant of ERSEM (European Regional Sea Ecosystem Model). Results, obtained by forcing the model with hourly wind and solar radiation data and assimilating salinity casts, are compared against monthly observations made at the station during 2000–2001. Provided that modern second-moment TCMs are employed, the comparisons indicate that both the physical and the biological dynamics are relatively insensitive to the choice of the particular scheme adopted, suggesting that TCMs have finally ‘converged’ in recent years. As a further example, the choice of the nutrient boundary conditions has an impact on the system evolution that is more significant than the choice of the specific TCM, therefore representing a possible limitation of the 1-D model applied to stations located in a Region of Freshwater Influence. The 1-D model simulates the onset and intensity of the spring–summer bloom quite well, although the duration of the bloom is not as prolonged as in the data. Since local dynamics appears unable to sustain the bloom conditions well into summer, phytoplankton at the station was most likely influenced by river input or advection processes, an aspect that was not found when the S3 behaviour was adequately modelled using climatological forcings. When the focus is in predicting high-frequency dynamics, it is more likely that lateral advection cannot be neglected. While the physical state can be satisfactorily estimated at these short time scales, the accurate estimation of the biological state in coastal regions still appears as rather elusive.     

Sorption and mobility of polyethylene glycol (PEG 4000) in tropical soils

Millions of tons of polyethylene glycols (PEGs) are manufactured worldwide and most of them will reach conventional sewage disposal systems after industrial utilization. This raises environmental concerns, but not much is known about the environmental fate of these polymers. The main goals of this research were to evaluate sorption and mobility of PEG in sandier soils of Brazil. PEG 4000 was applied to the soils either freely in solution or as a simulated bioassay residue. The bioassay was prepared to simulate PEG as it is present in the animal feces. It allowed us to compare PEG mobility for both forms of environment disposal. PEG showed very low sorption (<22% of the applied PEG) and high mobility potential (>43% of the applied amount in the free-PEG and >24% of the applied amount in the bioassay-PEG experiment) in the studied soils. When PEG was applied, simulating its supply to animal diets, about 30% of its applied amount was retained into the bioassay residues and its leaching potential was reduced, whereas the remaining amount (about 70%) was readily available in solution and could be directly released into the environment.