Safety study of an LNG regasification plant using an FMECA and HAZOP integrated methodology

A safety analysis was performed to determine possible accidental events in the storage system used in the liquefied natural gas regasification plant using the integrated application of failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) and hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) methodologies. The goal of the FMECA technique is the estimation of component failure modes and their major effects, whereas HAZOP is a structured and systematic technique that provides an identification of the hazards and the operability problems using logical sequences of cause-deviation-consequence of process parameters. The proposed FMECA and HAZOP integrated analysis (FHIA) has been designed as a tool for the development of specific criteria for reliability and risk data organisation and to gain more recommendations than those typically provided by the application of a single methodology. This approach has been applied to the risk analysis of the LNG storage systems under construction in Porto Empedocle, Italy. The results showed that FHIA is a useful technique to better and more consistently identify the potential sources of human errors, causal factors in faults, multiple or common cause failures and correlation of cause-consequence of hazards during the various steps of the process.     

Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

Abstract: The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species was increasingly used during the 1980s to assess the conservation status of species for policy and planning purposes. This use stimulated the development of a new set of quantitative criteria for listing species in the categories of threat: critically endangered, endangered, and vulnerable. These criteria, which were intended to be applicable to all species except microorganisms, were part of a broader system for classifying threatened species and were fully implemented by IUCN in 2000. The system and the criteria have been widely used by conservation practitioners and scientists and now underpin one indicator being used to assess the Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 biodiversity target. We describe the process and the technical background to the IUCN Red List system. The criteria refer to fundamental biological processes underlying population decline and extinction. But given major differences between species, the threatening processes affecting them, and the paucity of knowledge relating to most species, the IUCN system had to be both broad and flexible to be applicable to the majority of described species. The system was designed to measure the symptoms of extinction risk, and uses 5 independent criteria relating to aspects of population loss and decline of range size. A species is assigned to a threat category if it meets the quantitative threshold for at least one criterion. The criteria and the accompanying rules and guidelines used by IUCN are intended to increase the consistency, transparency, and validity of its categorization system, but it necessitates some compromises that affect the applicability of the system and the species lists that result. In particular, choices were made over the assessment of uncertainty, poorly known species, depleted species, population decline, restricted ranges, and rarity; all of these affect the way red lists should be viewed and used. Processes related to priority setting and the development of national red lists need to take account of some assumptions in the formulation of the criteria.     

斜带石斑鱼alpha型与rho型GST基因cDNA全序列的克隆与分析

为从分子水平上研究II相去毒酶谷胱甘肽S-转移酶(Glutathione S-transferase,GST)在斜带石斑鱼(Epinephelus coioides)等海水鱼类机体内代谢去毒过程中的作用及机制,采用RT-PCR及RACE法,分离、克隆得到斜带石斑鱼肝脏alpha-GST(GSTA)、rho-GST(GSTR)基因cDNA全序列.序列分析结果表明,斜带石斑鱼肝脏GSTA基因cDNA全长1008bp,编码223个氨基酸;GSTR基因cDNA全长1002bp,编码225个氨基酸.构建系统进化树发现,斜带石斑鱼与鲤鱼、斑马鱼GSTA氨基酸同源性较高,而GSTR为鱼类所特有并共同占据进化树上独立的分枝,与大鼠、小鼠、人等哺乳动物GST现有所有类型同源性均较低.     

基于风险的报警优先级量化设定方法研究

当前主流报警优先级设定方法操作性不佳,在进行装置报警系统优化时由于考虑维度少而无法较好优化报警系统优先级,针对该问题,建立了基于风险的报警优先级设定新方法。将标定的风险图法应用于报警优先级设定,假定某报警不存在,对出现危险情况的频率、后果严重度、可用时间、避免事故后果的可能性等进行标定,并对危险状况出现频率与可用时间进行矩阵分析,将结果运用于风险图中;针对某柴油加氢装置报警系统,应用该方法进行了报警优先级优化。结果表明:基于风险的报警优先级量化设定方法能够有效应用于优化装置报警优先级;经该方法优化的各级报警,数量分布更接近EEMUA的推荐值;对于“在所考虑的报警不存在时每年发生事故的次数”因素,研究给出3个不同的档次供企业选择,实践中,企业可结合自身可接受标准,作进一步完善。     

资源环境承载力研究进展:基于地理学综合研究的视角

资源环境承载力作为连接社会系统、环境系统与经济系统之间的纽带,是协调人口、资源与环境相互联系、又彼此相对独立的矛盾统一体的关键所在。资源环境承载力是地理学综合研究的重要方向。综合性与区域性、人地关系是支撑其发展的重要理论框架。本文对国内外资源环境承载力的研究进展、存在问题和发展趋势进行了详尽的综述。国内外资源环境承载力研究经近百年发展,从最初的单一的土地资源承载力、水资源承载力甚至农业资源承载力发展到资源承载力、环境承载力以及生态环境承载力。近几十年,生态足迹、虚拟水、能值分析等综合研究理论与方法兴起,极大地推动了资源环境承载力研究的定量化和模式化。目前,资源环境承载力的研究面临着一系列新的要求和挑战。主要表现在:资源环境承载力理论基础、学科范式和方法体系尚需继续完善;若干关键科学问题(包括:尺度效应、关键阈值、变化机制等)亟待解答;基础研究需要与实践应用加强联系等等。在此基础上,本文主张从地理学综合视角重新审视资源环境承载力研究的理论框架和今后研究的优先主题。通过建构资源环境承载力的地理学综合研究范式,能够拓展资源环境承载力的理论深度和广度,有助于提升资源环境承载力在国民经济社会发展中的应用水平。本研究提出未来相关研究应围绕以下优先主题开展:(1)资源环境承载力关键要素的变化及驱动机制;(2)资源环境承载力综合评价的理论与方法;(3)资源环境承载力的动态监测与预警;(4)基于资源环境承载力的国土功能区划与管控;(5)重点区域的资源环境承载力的恢复与提升途径。     

环境监测市场化若干问题的思考

在环境监测市场化内涵辨析的基础上,界定了环境监测市场化包括非公共服务属性的环境监测使市场起决定性作用和公共服务属性的环境监测引入市场机制两层涵义,分析了环境监测市场化中政府与市场的职责和定位,提出了建立健全环境监测市场机制需要重点研究的若干问题。     

One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

Abstract:  We identified 100 scientific questions that, if answered, would have the greatest impact on conservation practice and policy. Representatives from 21 international organizations, regional sections and working groups of the Society for Conservation Biology, and 12 academics, from all continents except Antarctica, compiled 2291 questions of relevance to conservation of biological diversity worldwide. The questions were gathered from 761 individuals through workshops, email requests, and discussions. Voting by email to short-list questions, followed by a 2-day workshop, was used to derive the final list of 100 questions. Most of the final questions were derived through a process of modification and combination as the workshop progressed. The questions are divided into 12 sections: ecosystem functions and services, climate change, technological change, protected areas, ecosystem management and restoration, terrestrial ecosystems, marine ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, species management, organizational systems and processes, societal context and change, and impacts of conservation interventions. We anticipate that these questions will help identify new directions for researchers and assist funders in directing funds.     

鳜鱼两种谷胱甘肽S-转移酶基因cDNA的克隆与分析

鳜鱼(Siniperca chuatsi)是我国著名的肉食性鱼类,容易成为环境毒素的富集体.论文从分子水平上分析了鳜鱼去毒过程中起关键作用的谷胱甘肽S-转移酶(GST)基因的结构及进化上的地位,采用RT-PCR及RACE法,分离、克隆得到了鳜鱼肝脏可溶性alpha型(GSTA)和rho型(GSTR)基因cDNA全序列.结果表明,鳜鱼肝脏GSTA、GSTR全长分别为1052bp、935bp,其中5′-UTR分别为118bp、55bp,3′-UTR分别为262bp、202bp,分别编码223、225个氨基酸.系统分析结果显示:鳜鱼GSTA与GSTR在进化树上的位置与其分类所处的位置基本吻合.     

桃ACC合酶基因组DNA（pACSG01）的序列分析及其表达

以桃基因组DNA为模板,用套式PCR技术扩增并克隆了桃ACC合酶基因片段,将其克隆（定名为pACSG01）并进行序列测定,表明该自然全长1320bp,并富含HindⅢ和EcoRⅠ位点,与其它ACC合酶基因结构序列有一定的相似性,内含有两个内含子,编码的氨基酸序列与已克隆桃ACC合酶cDNA推导的氨基酸序列的同源性分别为57．4％和56．8％,pACSG01与我们已克隆的两个桃ACC合酶cDNA基因表达有所不同,RNA点杂交和RT－PCR结合Southern杂交分析表明,该基因在成熟和乙烯处理的果实均不表达,伤处理、LiCl和生长素处理也不能诱导核基因的表达,在衰老花瓣中也不表达,图3参18。     

氯代苯及氯代酚类优先污染物好氧生物降解动力学的研究

利用测定微生物呼吸耗氧量的方法,对氯代苯及氯代酚类中的７种优先污染物,用经它们分别驯化的活性污泥对其好氧生物降解动力学进行了研究。