Resilience-based approach to safety barrier performance assessment in process facilities

The performance assessment of safety barriers is essential to find vulnerable elements in a safety barrier system. Traditional performance assessment approaches mainly focus on using several static indicators for quantifying the performance of safety barriers. However, with the increasing complexity of the system, emerging hazards are highly uncertain, making it challenging for the static indicators to assess the performance of safety barriers. This paper proposes a resilience−based performance assessment method for safety barriers to overcome this problem. Safety barriers are classified according to their functions first. The dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) is then introduced to calculate the availability function under normal and disruption conditions. The ratio of the system's availability, when affected by the disruption, to the initial availability, is used to determine the absorption capacity of the system. The ratio of the quantity of availability recovery to the total quantity of system represents the adaptation and restoration capacity of the system. The system's resilience is represented by the sum of absorption, adaptation, and restoration capacities. The wax oil hydrogenation process is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed methodology.     

Transesterification of waste vegetable oil under pulse sonication using ethanol,methanol and ethanol–methanol mixtures

This study reports on the effects of direct pulse sonication and the type of alcohol (methanol and ethanol) on the transesterification reaction of waste vegetable oil without any external heating or mechanical mixing. Biodiesel yields and optimum process conditions for the transesterification reaction involving ethanol, methanol, and ethanol–methanol mixtures were evaluated. The effects of ultrasonic power densities (by varying sample volumes), power output rates (in W), and ultrasonic intensities (by varying the reactor size) were studied for transesterification reaction with ethanol, methanol and ethanol–methanol (50%-50%) mixtures. The optimum process conditions for ethanol or methanol based transesterification reaction of waste vegetable oil were determined as: 9:1 alcohol to oil ratio, 1% wt. catalyst amount, 1–2 min reaction time at a power output rate between 75 and 150 W. It was shown that the transesterification reactions using ethanol–methanol mixtures resulted in biodiesel yields as high as >99% at lower power density and ultrasound intensity when compared to ethanol or methanol based transesterification reactions.     

燃气-蒸汽联合循环供热项目主机选型方案刍议

发展燃气-蒸汽联合循环供热对于解决经济发展和环境保护具有重要作用，在我国经济发达地区已经开始大规模推广。阐述了燃气一蒸汽联合循环发电、供热技术、特点等，对主机选型方案提出建议。     

The effects of different mixing intensities during anaerobic digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste

Mixing inside an anaerobic digester is often continuous and is not actively controlled. The selected mixing regime can however affect both gas production and the energy efficiency of the biogas plant. This study aims to evaluate these effects and compare three different mixing regimes, 150 RPM and 25 RPM continuous mixing and minimally intermittent mixing for both digestion of fresh substrate and post-digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste. The results show that a lower mixing intensity leads to a higher biogas production rate and higher total biogas production in both cases. 25 RPM continuous mixing and minimally intermittent mixing resulted in similar biogas production after process stabilization, while 150 RPM continuous mixing resulted in lower production throughout the experiment. The lower gas production at 150 RPM could not be explained by the inhibition of volatile fatty acids. Cumulative biogas production until day 31 was 295 ± 2.9, 317 ± 1.9 and 304 ± 2.8 N ml/g VS added during digestion of fresh feed and 113 ± 1.3, 134 ± 1.1 and 130 ± 2.3 N ml/g VS added during post digestion for the 150 RPM, 25 RPM and minimally mixed intensities respectively. As well as increasing gas production, optimal mixing can improve the energy efficiency of the anaerobic digestion process.     

温和热处理对低有机质污泥厌氧消化性能的影响

以高浓度低有机质污泥为研究对象,通过改变加热时间研究100℃温和热处理对其有机物溶出以及厌氧消化性能影响.结果表明通过100℃的温和热处理,污泥上清液中的有机物浓度在预处理前30 min内显著增加,30 min以后则趋于平缓.其中SCOD、蛋白质和碳水化合物在100℃热处理30 min时的溶出率分别达到10.5%、11.6%和8.2%.温和热处理不仅可以提高低有机质污泥的产气总量,而且还可以缩短产气高峰的到达时间.经100℃热处理30 min的污泥,在厌氧消化10 d时的沼气产率(以VS计)为136.0 mL·g-1,比空白对照组提高了86.0%;厌氧消化30 d后的VS降解率也由空白时的19.1%增加到33.3%.此外,实验结果还表明,100℃的温和热水解处理对厌氧消化过程中的4种关键酶(蛋白酶、乙酸激酶、磷酸转乙酰酶和辅酶F420)均有不同程度的促进作用.     

Effect of two biogas residues’ application on copper and zinc fractionation and release in different soils

Biogas residue (BR) is widely used as a new green fertilizer in agriculture in China. However, it often contains a high concentration of heavy metals so its application should cause our concern. An incubation experiment was conducted to study the risk of pig biogas residue (PBR) and chicken biogas residue (CBR) application on Liuminying soil (LS) and Yixing soil (YS). The soils were incubated for one, three and six months with 0, 2%, 4% and 6% addition of BRs. According to BCR extraction results, the PBR and CBR applications induced an increase in the concentration of exchangeable fraction of Zn. As for the concentration of exchangeable fraction of Cu, an increase was only observed in the treatments with PBR application. The heavy metal binding intensity also showed a similar trend. With the PBR application, for the LS and YS, the highest concentrations of exchangeable Zn increased 3.6 and 9.5 times, respectively, while the exchangeable Cu was increased by 52.6% and 187.1%. Dissolved organic carbon was the limiting factor for the exchangeable Cu while the exchangeable Zn was controlled by soil pH. PBR presented more agricultural risk than CBR when used as fertilizer. Meanwhile, BRs were more adaptable to LS than YS according to the heavy metal release results.     

低强度超声对醌介导偶氮染料脱色的影响

厌氧条件下,微生物的代谢速率很缓慢。而低强度超声辐照则可以有效促进微生物的活性,进而增强生化反应速率。基于此,文章采用低强度超声预处理耐盐醌还原菌群,研究在富盐环境下其对醌介导偶氮染料的厌氧生物脱色速率的影响。研究结果表明,低强度超声(辐射频率40 kHz)处理耐盐醌还原菌群的最佳条件为超声强度0.15 W/cm2,超声时间3 min。在50 g/L NaCl存在条件下,处理后的耐盐醌还原菌群能够使蒽醌-2-磺酸钠、蒽醌-2,6-二磺酸钠、2-羟基-1,4-萘醌和2-甲基-1,4-萘醌介导的偶氮染料酸性大红3R脱色速率分别提高8.8%,23.0%,4.2%及20.4%。通过透射电镜分析推测,低强度超声可能是通过增大生物细胞壁的比表面积来提高其传质能力,从而提高醌介导的偶氮染料脱色速率。     

紊流脉动强度对藻类生长及水环境的影响研究

为探讨紊流脉动强度对藻类生长繁殖以及水环境的影响,采用自行设计的垂直振动格栅紊流装置,在一定的光照和水温条件下,通过改变各组实验装置中格栅的振动频率,在营养盐充足的封闭水体中开展了实验研究.结果表明,在实验设定的紊动范围内,紊流脉动强度对藻类的生长以及水环境的变化有明显的影响,较微弱的紊流脉动能促进水体中藻类的生长,而较强的紊流脉动则会抑制藻类的生长;随着紊流脉动强度的增加,藻类生物量峰值的出现时间逐渐推迟;不同水力条件下,5组实验过程中氮磷含量的变化情况具有显著的差异,当格栅振动频率达到2.0 Hz时,较之振动频率为0.5 Hz的实验,水体中TN和TP的最大消减量分别降低了55.2%和69.0%,与藻类生长情况关系密切;随着紊流脉动强度的增加,藻类生物量的峰值所对应的氮磷比先增后减;不同强度的紊流脉动均能促进水体的pH值和溶解氧迅速调节至藻类生长所需的最佳水平,且最佳值不变.     

湖南地区不同集约化栽培模式下双季稻稻田CH4和N2O的排放规律

采用静态暗箱-气相色谱法研究了湖南双季稻稻田不施氮(NN)、当地常规(FP)、高产高效(YE)、再高产(HY)、再高效(HE)5种不同栽培模式下温室气体(CH4、N2O)的排放规律.结果表明:水稻生长季CH4累积排放量变化为(206.5±37.5) kg· hm-2(FP,早稻)～(490.5±65.7) kg·hm-2(HE,晚稻),N2O-N累积排放量变化为(0.08±0.05) kg·hm-2(NN,早稻)～(0.326±0.15) kg·hm-2(HY,晚稻).不同栽培模式对CH4和N2O的排放都有显著影响(p＜0.05).HE模式CH4排放显著高于其他模式62％～ 87％(p＜0.05),尤其是晚稻季节;除NN模式外,其他4种模式间N2O排放差异不显著.冬季休闲期也是CH4和N2O排放的重要时期,分别占全年排放量的9.7％～19.7％和42％～ 62％.CH4主导了稻田不同栽培模式下的综合温室效应,在各模式中均占95％以上.施氮肥提高了作物产量,降低了温室气体强度(GHGI).在5种模式中,YE和HY模式温室气体强度较小,HY模式下仅为(0.97±0.16) kg·kg-1(以每kg产量排放的CO2当量计).因此,与FP模式相比,YE和HY模式既能提高产量和氮肥利用率,也能减缓温室效应;但HE模式排放的温室气体较高,在实际应用前尚需进一步研究.     

WRF数值模拟超强台风“凡亚比”路径强度及降水特征分析

采用中尺度数值模式WRF对2010年第1 1号台风“凡亚比”的发生发展过程进行数值模拟.通过设计的模式方案较好地模拟再现了“凡亚比”台风的发展、演变以及登陆过程,并利用台风最佳路径集提供的路径、中心气压、地面最大风速等信息资料,NCEP/NCAR分析资料,TRMM降水资料以及卫星云图、降水观测等各种资料与模式模拟结果开展了较细致的对比分析.模式模拟的台风路径与观测路径较为一致,分析出“凡亚比”台风的移动路径、强度、云系和降水分布等方面的特征.结果表明,台风的高低层环流形式、垂直运动场模拟结构也完全匹配,同时很好地把握住了中国沿海地区由台风造成降水的降水中心位置以及降水强度,但是对台风两次登陆时间的模拟均比真实的情况要迟6h,并且登陆位置偏西南.