一体式膜生物反应器处理生活污水的研究

研究了一体式膜生物反应器对生活污水的处理效果。实验结果表明,膜生物反应器对COD、TOC、NH4+-N、TN、TP的平均去除率为93.4%、96.2%、97.2%、63.8%、60.6%,并且污泥活性随着运行时间的延长而有所降低。     

基于能值分析的城市物质代谢研究

采用能值分析方法,构建了基于城市物质代谢通量指标、代谢存量指标和代谢效率指标的城市物质代谢指标体系,并以北京、天津、上海和重庆四个直辖市为例计算了2005年四城市物质代谢状况。分析结果表明:北京市代谢效率最低;上海市代谢通量和代谢存量最大,但是代谢效率不容乐观;重庆市代谢通量和代谢存量在四个城市中居于末位,但是代谢效率最高;天津市在四个城市中代谢呈中等水平。最后根据分析结果对城市今后的可持续发展提出了意见和建议。     

不同土壤对垃圾渗滤液的吸附净化实验研究

文章以粘土和壤土为实验材料,研究两种不同土壤对渗滤液中COD、重金属含量的吸收净化效果。结果表明:相同高度的粘土比壤土吸附效果好,同一种土壤对pH、COD、重金属的去除效果随土层厚度的增加而增强。     

基层环境监测能力效率的思考和建议

基层环境监测站是环境保护和环境监测的基础。在此重点在职责定位、经费投入、人员素质、监测项目、质量管理等方面对县（区）基层环境监测站的现状和能力建设及存在的问题进行深入探讨,并对环境监测站的能力建设和提高工作效率提出相应的建议和对策。     

水幕排烟系统对烟气控制及排烟效率的影响研究

为探明水幕排烟系统对隧道内烟气控制和排烟效率的影响,通过火灾动力学求解器(FDS)研究不同排烟风量下隧道内烟气、温度和速度分布。结果表明:排烟量小于100 m3/s时,水幕无法有效地阻隔有毒烟气的蔓延;当火源热释放速率(HRR)为10、20及30 MW时,排烟量分别为100、160和180 m3/s,能将烟气限制在水幕排烟系统内;在水幕的作用下,水幕外的温度分布均满足人员逃生的需要(小于80℃),在水幕排烟系统中烟气控制要比温度控制更为重要;相同火源HRR下,排烟口的排烟效率随着排烟量先增大后减小;排烟口的吸穿效应在水幕排烟系统中很难出现,排烟口吸入位于隧道底部混有大量新鲜空气的烟气是造成排烟效率降低的主要原因。     

水力压裂诱发断层活化失稳概率分析

为评估非常规油气开采过程水力压裂诱发断层活化失稳风险,基于新库仑稳定函数,通过编程求解诱震概率,分析不同诱因下断层稳定性和失稳风险。结果表明:孔隙弹性剪应力、孔隙压力和差异压实共同作用,是断层活化失稳重要诱因。当孔隙弹性剪应力介于6~10 MPa时,断层失稳概率高达68.9%,其增幅率越大,诱发远区断层失稳风险越高。孔隙压力增量超过3 MPa,对于定向不良断层极为不利;断层倾角和落差越大,差异压实作用越显著。     

Synergisms between climate change mitigation and adaptation: an insurance perspective

As the world’s largest industry, the insurance sector is both an aggregator of the impacts of climate change and a market actor able to play a material role in decreasing the vulnerability of human and natural systems. This article reviews the implications of climate change for insurers and provides specific examples of insurance-relevant synergisms between adaptation and mitigation in the buildings and energy sectors, agriculture, forestry, and land use. Although insurance is far from a “silver bullet” in addressing climate change, it offers significant capacity and ability to understand, manage, and spread risks associated with weather-related events, more so today in industrialized countries but increasingly so in developing countries and economies in transition. Certain measures that integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation also bolster insurers’ solvency and profitability, thereby increasing their appeal. Promising strategies involve innovative products and systems for delivering insurance and the use of new technologies and practices that both reduce vulnerability to disaster-related losses and support sustainable development. However, climate change promises to erode the insurability of many risks, and insurance responses can be more reactive than proactive, resulting in compromised insurance affordability and/or availability. Public–private partnerships involving insurers and entities such as the international relief community offer considerable potential, but have not been adequately explored.

Soil hydraulic response to land-use change associated with the recent soybean expansion at the Amazon agricultural frontier

Clearing for large-scale soy production and the displacement of cattle-breeding by soybeans are major features of land-use change in the lowland Amazon that can alter hydrologic properties of soils and the runoff generation over large areas. We measured infiltrability and saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) under natural forest, pasture, and soybeans on Oxisols in a region of rapid soybean expansion in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The forest-pasture conversion reduced infiltrability from 1258 to 100 mm/h and Ksat at all depths. The pasture-soy conversion increased infiltrability from 100 to 469 mm/h (attributed to shallow disking), did not affect Ksat at 12.5 cm, but decreased Ksat at 30 cm from 122 to 80 mm/h, suggesting that soybean cultivation enhances subsoil compaction. Permeability decreased markedly with depth under forest, did not change under pasture, and averaged out at one fourth the forest value under soybeans with a similar pattern of anisotropy. Comparisons of permeability with rainfall intensities indicated that land-use change did not alter the predominantly vertical water movement within the soil. We conclude that this landscape is well buffered against land-use changes regarding near-surface hydrology, even though short-lived ponding and perched water tables may occur locally during high-intensity rainfall on pastures and under soybeans.     

Set-aside management: How do succession, sowing patterns and landscape context affect biodiversity?

European Union (EU) member states set aside between 5 and 15% of arable land during the last two decades, but abolition of the set-aside scheme in 2008 caused a sudden loss in habitat availability and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Management of set-aside has many facets and in this perspective paper we focus on the biodiversity effects of successional age, sowing strategies and landscape context. Young, 1-2-year-old set-asides have been initially considered to be too ephemeral to have any conservation value. However, when a rich seed and bud bank is available, a species-rich natural (secondary) succession can be observed. Arable (annual) weed communities in the first two years of succession can even include endangered plant species with associated rare insect consumers. Furthermore, many bird species benefit from early-successional habitats, whereas small mammal communities are richer in older habitats. If the local plant species pool is poor, sowings of diverse mixtures from regional seed collections can be recommended. Set-aside managers using species-rich sowings often experience that dominant weeds suppress the less competitive annual species. This trend to species-poor communities can be avoided by intraspecific aggregation of competitively weak species. Broadening the spatial scale from the plot to the landscape, efficiency of set-aside is highest in simple landscapes, where set-aside exhibits greatest effect in enhancement of biodiversity and associated services such as pollination and biological control. In complex landscapes, however, additional set-aside does not add much to the high level of biodiversity and ecological processes already present. Twenty percent of semi-natural, non-crop habitat appears to be a rough threshold for enhancing biodiversity and sustaining services such as pollination and biological control, but improved set-aside management should have the potential to reduce the percentage of semi-natural non-crop habitat needed. EU policy should tailor set-aside schemes for the maintenance of biodiversity and also consider that management efficiency is higher in simple than complex landscapes.     

地下环境中Fe2+对硝基苯的还原衰减作用模拟研究

研究了地下环境中的Fe2+对硝基苯(NB)的还原衰减作用,模拟了Fe2+还原硝基苯的过程及不同硬度、CO32-、SO42-、NO3-、Cl-等地下水化学组成对反应的影响,目的是阐明Fe2+还原硝基苯的机制及水化学组成对反应影响的原因.结果表明,在温度为10℃、pH为6.8的条件下,Fe2+和硝基苯浓度皆对其还原衰减有影...