Accounting Carbon Storage in Decaying Root Systems of Harvested Forests

Decaying root systems of harvested trees can be a significant component of belowground carbon storage, especially in intensively managed forests where harvest occurs repeatedly in relatively short rotations. Based on destructive sampling of root systems of harvested loblolly pine trees, we estimated that root systems contained about 32% (17.2 Mg ha⁻¹) at the time of harvest, and about 13% (6.1 Mg ha⁻¹) of the soil organic carbon 10 years later. Based on the published roundwood output data, we estimated belowground biomass at the time of harvest for loblolly-shortleaf pine forests harvested between 1995 and 2005 in South Carolina. We then calculated C that remained in the decomposing root systems in 2005 using the decay function developed for loblolly pine. Our calculations indicate that the amount of C stored in decaying roots of loblolly-shortleaf pine forests harvested between 1995 and 2005 in South Carolina was 7.1 Tg. Using a simple extrapolation method, we estimated 331.8 Tg C stored in the decomposing roots due to timber harvest from 1995 to 2005 in the conterminous USA. To fully account for the C stored in the decomposing roots of the US forests, future studies need (1) to quantify decay rates of coarse roots for major tree species in different regions, and (2) to develop a methodology that can determine C stock in decomposing roots resulting from natural mortality.     

大庆油田采出水中矿化度的处理方法研究

石油采出水中的成分复杂,主要污染物包括原油、COD、悬浮物、硫化物、氨氮、以及大量的盐类等.如果把这些污水直接排放,将会对生物和生态环境造成很大危害,因此处理油田采出水问题,引起人们越来越多的关注,对之进行治理也成为最迫切的事情.本文对大庆采油四厂的油田采出水进行了水质分析,研究了胶束强化超滤降低油田采出水矿化度技术,并根据实验数据,对实验现象和结果进行分析讨论.实验结果表明用膜技术降低采油污水矿化度,使其能达到排放与回注、回用标准的可能性.     

静电-纤维层过滤的理论分析与实验研究

静电-纤维过滤是一种新型且十分有效的除尘技术。采用这种技术后,过滤效率特别是对微细粉尘的过滤效率大大提高,同时过滤阻力降低,清灰次数减少,滤料寿命延长.因此,美国、日本、德国等都相继开展了此项研究,且对静电-单层纤维过滤研究的比较多些,而对静电-纤维层过滤研究的却不够.     

SPACSYS: Integration of a 3D root architecture component to carbon, nitrogen and water cycling—Model description

It is an ongoing challenge to develop and demonstrate management practices that increase the sustainability of agricultural systems. Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics directly affect soil quality, crop productivity and environmental impacts. Root systems are central to the acquisition of water and nutrients by plants, but are also a major pathway for the inputs of carbon and nutrients to soil. The complexity of both biotic and abiotic interactions, combined with stochastic changes in root architecture, makes it difficult to understand below-ground dynamics on the basis of experimentation alone. The integration of dynamic models of above-ground growth, three-dimensional root system demography, and interactions between plants and the environment, into one single model is a major challenge because of the complexity of the systems.In order to understand the interaction between a plant and the environment, it is advantageous to develop a model framework to integrate submodels that simulate various plant and environmental components. The objective of this paper is to outline a mechanistic and process-based model, which is capable of simulating interactions among environmental conditions around plants, plant growth and development, nitrogen and carbon cycles, with a three-dimensional root system submodel as an interface.The model presented in this paper is a mixed dimensional, multi-layer, field scale, weather-driven and daily time-step dynamic simulation model. The current version includes a plant growth and development component, a nitrogen cycling component, a carbon cycling component, plus a soil water component that includes representation of water flow to field drains as well as downwards through the soil layers, together with a heat transfer component. The components themselves and linkage among components are designed using object-oriented techniques, which makes the model robust, understandable and reusable. The components are implemented in the C++ programming language, and inputs and outputs of all components are organised as a database in either Microsoft^® SQL Server 2000, Access 2000 or MySQL5.0. Root architecture is visualised by using the OpenGL graphics system. Preliminary validation with two separate experimental datasets shows that the model can reasonably simulate root systems, nitrogen cycling, water movement and plant growth.     

基于GT-Power柴油机颗粒捕集器捕集性能的仿真研究

利用GT-Power软件建立了柴油机颗粒捕集器(DPF)仿真模型,进行了仿真计算。研究了颗粒捕集器本身结构参数对其捕集效率与压降的影响。结果表明,影响颗粒捕集器捕集效率的主要参数有通道密度(CPSI)、过滤体孔隙率、过滤体微孔直径以及过滤壁厚度;影响颗粒物压降的主要参数有通道密度、过滤体渗透率、过滤体孔隙率以及过滤壁厚度。     

Changes in susceptibility of beech (Fagus sylvatica) seedlings towards Phytophthora citricola under the influence of elevated atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen fertilization

The growth-differentiation balance hypothesis (GDBH) predicts changes in susceptibility of plants against herbivores with changing resource availability. In the presented study we tested the validity of the GDBH for trees infected with a root pathogen. For this purpose Fagus sylvatica seedlings grown under different atmospheric CO₂- and soil nitrogen regimes were infected with the root pathogen Phytophthora citricola. High nitrogen supply increased total biomass of beech regardless of the CO₂-treatment, whereas elevated CO₂ enhanced biomass only in the high nitrogen treatment. The responses of beech under the different growing regimes to the Phytophthora root infection were not in line with the predictions of the GDBH. Enhanced susceptibility of beech against P. citricola was found in seedlings grown under elevated CO₂ and low nitrogen supply. Fifteen months after inoculation these plants were characterized by enhanced water use efficiency, by altered root-shoot ratios, and by enhanced specific root tip densities.     

The role of radial oxygen loss and root anatomy on zinc uptake and tolerance in mangrove seedlings

Root anatomy, radial oxygen loss (ROL) and zinc (Zn) uptake and tolerance in mangrove plants were investigated using seedlings of Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Rhizophora stylosa. The results revealed that B. gymnorrhiza, which possessed the ‘tightest barrier’ in ROL spatial patterns among the three species studied, took up the least Zn and showed the highest Zn tolerance. Furthermore, zinc significantly decreased the ROL of all three plants by inhibition of root permeability, which included an obvious thickening of outer cortex and significant increases of lignification in cell walls. The results of SEM X-ray microanalysis further confirmed that such an inducible, low permeability of roots was likely an adaptive strategy to metal stress by direct prevention of excessive Zn entering into the root. The present study proposes new evidence of structural adaptive strategy on metal tolerance by mangrove seedlings.     

凝结水精处理技术的应用及发展

概述了凝结水精处理技术的国内外发展现状及主要工艺,对国内外主要系统供应商的技术特点进行了分析总结。     

非稳态过滤除尘压力损失的研究

提出用于建立过滤层非稳态过滤压力损失模型的微观分析法和宏观分析法新概念，归纳出无论是纤维层过滤，还是颗粒层过滤，所反映的压力损失随过滤时间变化的规律是相同的，由此提出筇同观分析法和宏观分析法相结合的对纤维层过滤和颗粒层过滤均适用的非稳态过滤简化式，通过实验探讨了非稳态过滤压力损失比例常数的确定方法，并由此验证了该简化式的正确性。     

曝气-两级过滤工艺用于地下水除铁除锰

深圳市平湖华宝（集团）有限公司采用曝气一两级过滤工艺进行地下水除铁除锰的处理，出水的各项指标均达到国家生活饮用水卫生标准（GB5749-85），吨水处理成本为0.31元。该工艺运行稳定，投资运行费用低，具有较好的经济效益。