Qualitatively and quantitatively assessing the aggregation ability of sludge during aerobic granulation process combined XDLVO theory with physicochemical properties

Inexact mechanism of aerobic granulation still impedes optimization and application of aerobic granules. In this study, the extended Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, and Overbeek(XDLVO) theory and physicochemical properties were combined to assess the aggregation ability of sludge during aerobic granulation process qualitatively and quantitatively. Results show that relative hydrophobicity of sludge and polysaccharide content of extracellular polymeric substances(EPS) increased, while electronegativity of sludge decreased during acclimation phase. After 20 days' acclimation, small granules began to form due to high aggregation ability of sludge. Since then, coexisted flocs and granules possessed distinct physicochemical properties during granulation and maturation phase. The relative hydrophobicity decreased while electronegativity increased for flocs, whereas that for granules presented reverse trend. Through analyzing the interaction energy using the XDLVO theory, small granules tended to self-grow rather than self-aggregate or attach of flocs due to poor aggregation ability between flocs and granules during the granulation phase. Besides, remaining flocs were unlikely to self-aggregate owing to poor aggregation ability, low hydrophobicity and high electronegativity.     

Utility of laboratory streams for ecosystem toxicity studies

Laboratory stream microcosms have been used to study transport, fate, and effects of toxic substances in stream ecosystems. Several general concerns exist in utilizing laboratory streams in this way. We summarize some of the most important and difficult of these problems and endeavor to provide theoretical understanding, evaluation, and empirical approaches necessary for making laboratory stream ecosystem studies more useful in solving problems of toxic substance behavior in natural stream ecosystems. Well-designed laboratory streams and other microcosms are complex dynamic systems that can contribute to our understanding of the behavior of toxic substances. But such systems are far too complex and dynamic to be employed as bioassay, monitoring, or predictive tools, as individual organisms have been.     

天然饮用水源中腐殖质的去除

阐述了天然水体中腐殖质对人类的危害及对环境造成的影响。着重综述了去除水体中腐殖质的方法：混凝沉演法、活性炭吸附法、高铁酸盐氧化絮凝法、O3氧化＋生物处理法、H2O2存在下的光解法及TiO2膜光催化氧化法。     

水生腐殖酸分子量分布研究——Ⅱ.腐殖酸凝胶色谱图峰加宽效应校正

研究了串联凝胶色谱系统的峰加宽效应.在该系统中,单分散标样的GPC谱图为低流出体积一侧较宽的不对称形式,以峰流出体积为界,这样的谱图可视作两个半侧正态函效的拼接.峰加宽效应还随淋出体积增大而加强,简单的直线方程可近似地描述分辨因子h随淋出体积的变化规律.在此基础上建立了腐殖酸GPC谱图峰加宽效应的校正方法.并根据实测结果计算了两个水生腐殖酸样品的分子量分布.     

腐殖酸在去除水体和土壤中有机污染物的作用

本文叙述了腐殖质的结构及性质,并论述了其与有机污染物结合的特征,即通过疏水作用和氢键作用吸附有机污染物, 表现为增强有机污染物在水体中的溶解度,降低挥发度,增加光解速率以及改变生物可利用率和影响有机污染物毒性等.介绍了腐殖质在去除有机污染物技术中的应用,对染色污染物有较高的去除率,具有较高的净化效果.腐殖酸还可以通过提高PAHs的溶解性和加速PAHs对微生物的生物可利用性来加速PAHs的生物降解.腐殖质的存在可以增加PCBs的溶解性,增加特效菌在腐殖质不同比率的条件下对PCBs不同的接近程度.文章最后指出了腐殖质在今后环境保护领域的发展趋势和研究方向.     

水生腐殖酸分子量分布研究——Ⅰ.串联凝胶色谱法测定水生腐殖酸分子量分布

考察了测定水生腐殖酸分子量分布及其平均分子量的串联凝胶色谱法。结果表明,使用Sepbadex G-25和G-100两种凝胶的色谱柱系统的分离范围可从分子量1000左右到数万,几乎包括了水生腐殖酸分子量分布的整个区段。这样的串联凝胶色谱柱的标定曲线为一折线,可用分段函数近似地加以描述。     

Research on organic matters in the drinking water of Kaschin-Beck disease area

Organic matters in drinking water of Kaschin-Beck disease areas were extracted. Then analyses and characterization were performed by means of multiply chemical and physical methods. The results did not show the obvious difference in the frame structure of humic substances and the structure of rmcromolecular compounds in the drinking water of disease and non-disease areas, but the difference in the contents of some micromolecular compounds and radicals. The investigation also includes the preliminary research on the photoreaction of drinking water from disease and non-disease areas and the accumulation of natural organic matter in the bone of tested animals.     

肠杆菌FM-1强化积雪草修复镉污染土壤机理

分析了肠杆菌FM-1的耐镉性及促生特性，并研究了肠杆菌FM-1对矿山型和非矿山型积雪草镉富集及根际土壤pH值的影响.结果表明，肠杆菌FM-1对镉有较强的耐受性，其分泌的吲哚乙酸含量，铁载体A/A_r值和溶磷能力分别达到（72.85±0.62）mg/L，0.21±0.01和（143.33±2.13）mg/L，表明肠杆菌FM-1具有良好的促生能力.将肠杆菌FM-1接种于采自广西柳州泗顶铅锌矿周边4种类型的土壤中，均不同程度提高了矿山型和非矿山型积雪草对镉的富集.其中，下游区土壤接种肠杆菌FM-1后，矿山型积雪草茎和叶中镉含量分别增加了87.90%~161.84%和21.85%~76.42%，非矿山型叶片中的镉含量增加了5.84%~35.20%.研究表明肠杆菌FM-1促进了积雪草对镉的富集.同时，肠杆菌FM-1的添加在一定程度上影响了积雪草根际土壤的pH值，显著降低了下游区矿山型积雪草根际土壤中的pH值.     

Maternal exposure to specific perfluoroalkyl substances is associated with increasing blood glucose in pregnant women

正Imagine if a group of toxic substances that increase oxidative stress and disrupt glucose and lipid metabolism have been broadly used worldwide for applications such as repellent,food packaging,and non-stick frying pan coatings.Now imagine if some of these substances have half-lives as long as 3-8 years.This is an environmental reality that has come to light with perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances(PFASs)–high     

Global-scale environmental transport of persistent organic pollutants

In order to realistically simulate both chemistry and transport of atmospheric organic pollutants, it is indispensable that the applied models explicitly include coupling between different components of the global environment such as atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and soil system. A model with such properties is presented.

The atmospheric part of the model is based on the equations in a general contravariant form which permits easy changes of the coordinate system by redefining the metric tensor of a specifically employed coordinate system. Considering a need to include explicitly the terrain effects, the terrain following spherical coordinate system is chosen from among many possible coordinate systems. This particular system is a combination of the Gal-Chen coordinates, commonly employed in mesoscale meteorological models, and the spherical coordinates, typical for global atmospheric models.

In addition to atmospheric transport, the model also simulates the exchange between air and different types of underlying surfaces such as water, soil, snow, and ice. This approach permits a realistic representation of absorption and delayed re-emission of pollutants from the surface to the atmosphere and, consequently, allows to capture hysteresis-like effects of the exchange between the atmosphere and the other components of the system. In this model, the most comprehensive numerical representation of the exchange is that for soil. In particular, the model includes a realistic soil module which simulates both diffusion and convection of a tracer driven by evaporation from the soil, precipitation, and gravity.

The model is applied to a long-term simulation of the transport of pesticides (hexachlorocyclohexanes in particular). Emission fluxes from the soil are rigorously computed on the basis of the realistic data of the agricultural application. All four modelled systems, i.e. atmosphere, soil, hydrosphere and cryosphere, are driven by objectively analysed meteorological data supplemented, when necessary, by climatological information. Therefore, the verification against the observed data is possible. The comparison of the model results and the observations taken at remote stations in the Arctic indicates that the presented global modelling system is able to capture both trends and short-term components in the observed time series of the concentrations, and therefore, provides a useful tool for the evaluation of the source–receptor relationships.