Application of a chemically modified green macro alga as a biosorbent for phenol removal

Phenol and substituted phenols are toxic organic pollutants present in tannery waste streams. Environmental legislation defines the maximum discharge limit to be 5–50 ppm of total phenols in sewers. Thus the efforts to develop new efficient methods to remove phenolic compounds from wastewater are of primary concern. The present work aims at the use of a modified green macro alga (Caulerpa scalpelliformis) as a biosorbent for the removal of phenolic compounds from the post-tanning sectional stream. The effects of initial phenol concentration, contact time, temperature and initial pH of the solution on the biosorption potential of macro algal biomass have been investigated. Biosorption of phenol by modified green macro algae is best described by the Langmuir adsorption isotherm model. Biosorption kinetics of phenol onto modified green macro algal biomass were best described by a pseudo second order model. The maximum uptake capacity was found to be 20 mg of phenol per gram of green macro algae. A Boyd plot confirmed the external mass transfer as the slowest step involved in the biosorption process. The average effective diffusion coefficient was found to be 1.44 × 10⁻⁹ cm²/s. Thermodynamic studies confirmed the biosorption process to be exothermic.     

城市屋顶绿化生态功能浅析

屋顶绿化具有多种优越的环境功能,是一项能够有效提升城市生态水平的环境策略,现已被世界上很多发达国家所采用。本文介绍了屋顶绿化的一些基本知识,并对屋顶绿化的环境功能进行了讨论。     

低频超声协同Fe-Ni-Mn／Al2O3催化降解酸性绿B的研究

采用低频超声与Fe-Ni-Mn／Al2O3催化剂协同降解偶氮染料酸性绿B模拟废水,考察染料初始浓度和pH值、催化剂、饱和气体及H2O2等因素对酸性绿B降解效果的影响,结果表明：催化剂Fe-Ni-Mn／Al2O3与低频超声存在协同效应,催化剂的最佳投加量为6g／L;酸性条件有利于染料的超声降解,当pH=3．8时,可取得最佳的降解效果;酸性绿B降解率随初始浓度的增大而降低,其优化初始浓度为100mg／L,此外,在反应体系中鼓入饱和气体也可促进酸性B的降解,且影响顺序为混合气体（air＋Ar）〉氧气〉氩气;在反应过程中投加H2O2有利于染料降解率的提高。在优化实验条件下降解150min,酸性绿B色度去除率达到91．4％。     

低频超声协同Fe-Ni-Mn/Al2O3催化降解酸性绿B的研究

采用低频超声与Fe-Ni-Mn/Al₂O₃催化剂协同降解偶氮染料酸性绿B模拟废水,考察染料初始浓度和pH值、催化剂、饱和气体及H₂O₂等因素对酸性绿B降解效果的影响, 结果表明：催化剂Fe-Ni-Mn/Al₂O₃与低频超声存在协同效应,催化剂的最佳投加量为6 g/L;酸性条件有利于染料的超声降解,当pH=3.8时, 可取得最佳的降解效果; 酸性绿B降解率随初始浓度的增大而降低,其优化初始浓度为100 mg/L,此外,在反应体系中鼓入饱和气体也可促进酸性B的降解,且影响顺序为混合气体(air+Ar)＞氧气＞氩气;在反应过程中投加H₂O₂有利于染料降解率的提高。在优化实验条件下降解150 min,酸性绿B色度去除率达到91.4%。     

不同遮光方式的抑藻效果比较研究

藻类的生长繁殖与其自身通过光照进行光合作用有着密不可分的关系。研究了遮光面积、遮光周期、遮光率与水体叶绿素a含量和藻类密度之间的关系,探讨不同遮光方式对藻类生长的抑制作用;以及不同遮光方式下水体中氮磷浓度的变化情况。实验结果显示：遮光50%以上的实验桶内的叶绿素a含量和藻类密度相对于不遮光减少50%以上;从上午9：00至下午3：00遮光,12 d可以使绿素a浓度和藻类数量相对于不遮光减少70%以上;遮光率达到67%以上时,抑藻效果才较为明显,第12 d时,叶绿素a含量和藻类密度相对于不遮光减少50%以上。遮光是抑制藻类暴发的有效措施之一,不同水体可以根据具体情况选择不同的遮光方式。     

欧盟环境规制对我国家电出口的绿色壁垒效应

运用引力模型分析环境规制的贸易效应的文献可以分为三类:考察总体的环境规制严度对双边贸易流量总量的影响,不针对行业和具体产品;考察某行业的环境规制严度对该行业双边贸易流量的影响,不针对具体产品;考察具体的环境规制措施对相关产品的进出口的影响。其环境规制严度的测度有横向赋值法、横向指数法及限量法。本文采用引力模型,对我国空调、显示器、真空吸尘器、电吹风机、微波炉1990年至2006年向欧盟十国的年度出口量进行面板数据分析,合并考察欧盟EMC、ROHS与WEEE及生态标签对我国家电产品出口是否产生壁垒效应。本文拓展出环境规制严度变量的纵向赋值法,按规制措施的影响强弱对环境规制严度变量赋予不同的增加幅度,在时间序列数据中如何对先后实施多项环境规制措施进行计量分析的问题取得突破。结果显示:所考察的欧盟环境规制措施对我国五种家电产品的出口已构成绿色贸易壁垒。这一结果为欧盟环境规制构成绿色壁垒的论断提供了经验分析的证据。     

The Green Economy: Reconceptualizing the Natural Commons as Natural Capital

The green economy is an emergent approach to sustainable development launched at Rio+20. Herein environmental decision-making is increasingly achieved through economistic processes and logic. The natural commons are quantified and managed as natural capital. This paper summarizes the trajectory of the project and its ideological framework. It examines various conceptualizations of economic approaches to the environment and considers philosophical, methodological, and political problems associated with the green economy project. In the face of very different definitions of what constitutes a green economy, environmental communicators face a situation characterized by discursive confusion as the complexity of natural capital accounting processes conceal new political configurations. Counter movements argue that the green economy program is performing ideological work that uses language of environmentalism to obscure an intensified agenda of neoliberal governance and capital accumulation. The concept now has contradictory meanings. Environmental communicators have an important role to play in exposing the contested nature of the project and in helping to define the emerging green economy.     

An affordable green energy source—Evolving through current developments of organic,dye sensitized,and perovskite solar cells

Intensive R&D efforts made in solar photovoltaic area has enabled Si, GaAs, CdTe, and CIGS devices exhibiting nearly ideal efficiencies. However, cost incurred per unit energy does not allow them to qualify for alternate energy source besides environmental issues at production floors. Consequently, search is still continuing not only to reduce cost by improved efficiency, reduced materials cost, and simplified processing resulting in a cleaner and greener technology. Current successes in organic, dye-sensitized, and perovskite solar cells with efficiencies in 10–15% range raise concrete hope for evolving a low cost and green technology involving solution processable organic/inorganic compounds extendable to roll-to-roll production. The current status and future prospects of these three promising routes are reviewed here highlighting the possibility of an emerging alternate green energy source to supplement the conventional ones at commercial level.     

北京市大学生绿色消费行为特征研究

当前资源短缺、环境污染等问题较为严重,从生态、环保的角度出发,人们应该选择绿色、可持续的消费行为。绿色消费作为一种全新的消费方式,正在以一种崭新的道德观、人生观和价值观融入人们的生活。与普通民众相比,大学生具有更高的知识水平和接受新生事物的能力,因此对大学生绿色消费行为特征的研究尤为必要。通过对国内外大学生绿色消费行为特征问题相关研究成果的梳理,探究影响大学生绿色消费行为特征的主要因素,并据此设计问卷对北京市大学生的绿色消费行为特征进行实证调研,通过对调查结果的分析,发现当前大学生在进行绿色消费时存在以下典型特征问题:对绿色产品或者绿色消费概念欠了解、超前消费和过度消费现象突出、具有从众消费和攀比消费心理、社交消费支出逐渐增大等问题。针对存在的特征问题建议大学生从加强自我管理、养成理财习惯、抵制非绿色消费行为、引导绿色消费时尚等方面进行改进。     

长江经济带城市发展绿色效率研究

我国经济发展进入新常态,资源和环境约束压力不断增强。城市是现代经济增长的中心,绿色高效是我国城市转型发展的必由之路。本文构建反映城市经济增长、社会效益、资源节约、环境保护的绿色效率体系,并利用DEA作为工具来监测长江经济带108个地级及以上城市绿色效率。研究表明,长江经济带城市绿色效率整体水平不高,但是有逐步改善的趋势。将城市绿色综合效率进一步分解为规模效率和技术效率,相比规模效率,技术效率成为制约长江经济带绿色城市综合效率的主要因素。长江经济带城市要改变目前效率低下的现状关键在于提高技术效率,推进城市的创新发展,推动新技术、新产业、新业态的发展,促进产业结构的优化升级。本文对投入产出的冗余度与不足度进行了分析,并解释了低效率的根源。从资源投入的冗余度来看,土地资源能源劳动力技术资本水资源,长江经济带资源利用率低,存在高投入、高消耗的问题,加快长江经济带中西部地区城市绿色发展,应合理配置资源要素。从期望产出不足度来看,地方财政预算内收入社会消费品零售总额GDP,长江经济带目前总体发展模式还是追求经济产出的最大化,而忽视了经济运行的质量与社会效益。绿色效率不高主要集中在资源的过度消耗和环境污染物过度排放方面,其中环境问题成为城市发展过程中提高绿色效率亟待解决的重点和难点问题。应共同推进生态环境的保护,改革创新环境管理体制机制,推行环境保护市场化,加强对环境的监管和治理,这关系着长江经济带城市发展绿色效率的提高与生态文明示范带的实现。