生活垃圾综合处理模式生命周期评价

为了评价和筛选生活垃圾综合处理模式,采用生命周期模型对"分选+焚烧+填埋"、"分选+焚烧+填埋+堆肥"和"分类+焚烧+生物"3种处理模式在环境、经济等方面进行研究。结果表明:3种处理模式的环境影响潜力分别为5.92×10-2、9.11×10-2和5.09×10-2,单位处理成本为24.88、31.59和11.73元/(人.a)。经过综合评估"分类+焚烧+生物"处理模式具有明显优势。     

LCA方法在城市垃圾管理中的应用

以福州市城市垃圾处理为例,应用生命周期评价(LCA)方法分析了城市垃圾采用卫生填埋、焚烧两种不同的处理和处置方式的成本消耗,以及向大气、水体和土壤环境排放污染物所造成的环境影响,进而提出对城市生活垃圾进行可持续管理的策略。     

铵饱和天然钙型沸石的化学再生效果

为实现沸石人工湿地的长期高效运行,以铵饱和天然钙型沸石为对象,通过沸石化学再生试验,从6种常用化学再生剂(NaCl+NaOH,NaCl+CaCl₂和NaCl+NaHCO₃组合型,以及NaCl,CaCl₂和NaHCO₃)中筛选出最佳再生剂,并优化了再生剂适用条件. 结果表明,NaCl+CaCl₂组合型再生剂能提升沸石再生率10%～20%,且不影响沸石结构,是一种较优的再生剂. 采用NaCl+CaCl₂组合型再生剂,Na+在沸石再生初期起主导作用,而当c(Na＋)较低时,Ca2+的离子交换作用逐渐起主导作用,因而采用该组合型再生剂能显著提升再生剂效果的持久性. 再生条件优化试验表明,当c(NaCl)∶c(CaCl₂)为7∶3,即当Ca2+和Na+所带正电荷数接近时,组合型再生剂再生率相对较高;当再生温度低于45℃时,升高温度能显著提升沸石再生率;而再生剂投加量为0.6 mol/L(以再生剂中的阳离子浓度计)时,组合型再生剂投加量最经济.      

城市系统碳循环与碳管理研究进展

城市化带来的土地利用变化和化石燃料燃烧是引起全球气候变化和温室效应的主要原因之一。了解不同区域城市系统碳循环的过程、途径、方向和机制,有助于更好地进行未来大气温室气体的情景预测,并提出相应的碳管理措施。论文在国内外城市系统碳循环研究的基础上,对城市系统的特征、空间范围和碳过程特征进行了总结和分析;从城市能源使用碳排放、城市植被和土壤碳研究、城市扩展对碳排放的影响、城市代谢与碳过程、城市系统碳循环模拟等方面对目前城市系统碳循环的主要研究内容进行了综述;结合URCM研究计划,对城市碳管理的理论框架、科学问题和主要措施及目标进行了探讨;最后提出了该领域未来研究的主要方向和建议。     

Modelling of spatio-temporal population dynamics of earthworms under wetland conditions—An integrated approach

Both the effects of earthworms on soils and the effects of soil conditions on earthworms have been studied with the help of experiments and modelling. This paper provides a model architecture allowing coupling both effects to a dynamic interaction in changing environmental conditions. We chose for a spatio-temporally explicit model and focussed on wetland conditions. Soil temperature and humidity have been modelled by means of finite volumes and were used to determine the spatial habitat suitability. The life cycles of earthworms have been modelled by Leslie matrices where soil humidity, soil temperature and population densities have been used to parametrize survival and transition probabilities. Earthworm dispersion has been described by a cellular automaton of the domain providing spatial population densities for both the life cycle submodel and the soil conditions submodel.     

Investigation of stakeholders' awareness and adoption of Inherently Safer Design (ISD) principles in South African utility industry projects

The paper examines the level of awareness of stakeholders in adopting Inherently Safer Design (ISD) principles in the Project Life Cycle Management (PLCM) of South African Energy utility projects. It seeks to understand whether stakeholders in the latter stages of the Project Life Cycle are competent to make design change decisions on these projects. ISD principles are essentially useful for reducing risks and as such, safety experts have acknowledged it as an excellent approach in the design process. However, there are no known efforts to date that attempt to integrate ISD concepts into PLCM. This paper seeks to fill this gap. This study, through the review of extant literature establishes that ISD principles can be used in project procurement, and adopts a quantitative survey approach in obtaining information from stakeholders in the South African utility industry. Findings reveal that the principles of inherent safety are permeating into the management of South African utility projects but the level of awareness and its adoption are below optimal levels. It also emerged that there is a divergent awareness of ISD strategies amongst PLCM stakeholders and that the design engineers are better informed about the ISD approach of eliminating risks and hazards in the industrial systems studied than other stakeholders. The findings also indicate that the level of awareness of stakeholders of ISD principles is greater within earlier project phases. Based on these findings, the paper concludes that the hazards witnessed within the project execution and finalization phases could be as a result of the low levels of awareness, divergent views and lower use of ISD strategies by PLCM stakeholders. It is suggested that the level of awareness of the principles, concepts, basics and benefits of integrating ISD into PLCM be raised amongst stakeholders functioning within utility industry project procurement in South Africa and that design changes be limited to the earlier phases of utility project procurement.     

藻源性黑水团环境效应Ⅲ:对水-沉积物界面处Fe-S-P循环的影响

利用静态模拟实验装置研究了藻源性黑水团发生过程中沉积物表层上覆水和沉积物间隙水中Fe-S-P的变化过程.结果表明:加入藻细胞后很快形成厌氧、还原环境,使得沉积物中Fe-S-P发生强烈的生物地球化学变化;实验第1d,表层上覆水中的Fe2+、SO42-、S2-含量高达4.993,242.0,387.57mg/L,为对照样柱中的1.8倍、2.2倍和18.8倍;在沉积物4cm处其浓度分别为8.5,40.0,65.3mg/L.随后,沉积物表层上覆水中Fe2+、S2-含量表现出一个先快速增加、随后降低的趋势,其浓度分别在实验的第3,2d达到最大值为11.1,634.6mg/L. 沉积物中PO43--P浓度受Fe-P解析等具有滞后性,从实验的第2d后开始直至实验结束时表现为其含量持续增加,到实验结束时其浓度为39.450mg/L,为对照样柱中的242倍.上覆水和间隙水中Fe-S-P含量的变化,反映了藻华聚集形成的厌氧环境中发生了剧烈的生物地球化学反应,从而使得沉积物中形成的Fe2+、S2- 和 PO43--P不断向上覆水体中扩散,对形成黑水团的水体生态系统的恢复造成阻碍和不良影响.     

三峡库区消落带甲基汞变化特征的模拟

为探寻三峡水库消落带在干湿交替条件下甲基汞的变化规律,以库区典型消落带土壤为研究对象,采用模拟试验,研究了干湿交替条件下消落带土壤和水体甲基汞含量和动态变化趋势及其影响因素.结果表明:淹水过程会促进土壤无机汞向有机汞转化,土壤甲基汞含量在淹水和落干过程均呈现先增加后减少的趋势;随着干湿交替周期的增加,土壤甲基汞含量增加,第二次淹水后土壤甲基汞平均含量比第一次淹水增加了22.13%,第二次落干后土壤甲基汞平均含量比第一次落干增加了58.17%.第二次淹水过程土壤甲基汞占总汞的比例明显高于第一次淹水,土壤中汞的甲基化主要与干湿交替循环有关.土壤淹水后会迅速向水体释放甲基汞,水体中甲基汞含量明显增加,两次淹水过程增幅分别为119.42%和334.72%,水体甲基汞和土壤甲基汞之间无显著相关.干湿交替环境土壤甲基汞含量主要受pH值、有机质含量、Eh和土壤含水量等因素的影响;水体中甲基汞含量的影响因素则主要有水体pH值、DO、DOM、水温等.     

The derivation of discount rates with an augmented measure of income

Most developed economies invest in public goods such as national defense, education, infrastructure, and the environment. Discount rates used to evaluate such projects should reflect the rate of return on the current mix of investment opportunities. Rates derived from the productivity of private capital neglect returns beyond the market boundary. The present paper derives discount rates using an augmented measure of national income inclusive of non-market goods. In an empirical application focusing on air pollution and climate damages in the United States economy, the paper reports that the difference between augmented and market discount rates averages 0.3 percentage points from 1999 to 2014.     

Scaling up private land conservation to meet recovery goals for grassland birds

Long-term population declines have elevated recovery of grassland avifauna to among the highest conservation priorities in North America. Because most of the Great Plains is privately owned, recovery of grassland bird populations depends on voluntary conservation with strong partnerships between private landowners and resource professionals. Despite large areas enrolled in voluntary practices through U.S. Department of Agriculture's Lesser Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) Initiative (LPCI), the effectiveness of Farm Bill investments for meeting wildlife conservation goals remains an open question. Our objectives were to evaluate extents to which Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and LPCI-grazing practices influence population densities of grassland birds; estimate relative contributions of practices to regional bird populations; and evaluate percentages of populations conserved relative to vulnerability of species. We designed a large-scale impact-reference study and used the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions program to evaluate bird population targets of the Playa Lakes Joint Venture. We used point transect distance sampling to estimate density and population size for 35 species of grassland birds on private lands enrolled in native or introduced CRP plantings and LPCI-prescribed grazing. Treatment effects indicated CRP plantings increased densities of three grassland obligates vulnerable to habitat loss, and LPCI grazing increased densities of four species requiring heterogeneity in dense, tall-grass structure (α = 0.1). Population estimates in 2016 indicated the practices conserved breeding habitat for 4.5 million birds (90% CI: 4.0–5.1), and increased population sizes of 16 species , totaling 1.8 million birds (CI: 1.4–2.4). Conservation practices on private land benefited the most vulnerable grassland obligate species (AIC_c weight = 0.53). By addressing habitat loss and degradation in agricultural landscapes, conservation on private land provides a solution to declining avifauna of North America and scales up to meet population recovery goals for the most imperiled grassland birds.