Application of modeling and simulation tools in costs and pollution monitoring

This paper presents the development and application of process modeling and simulation tools to aid in the monitoring and measuring of pollution from industry, and investigate a plant's overall performance. A case study of a generic reduction plant is investigated, taking into account the underlying principles that determine the amount of fluoride emissions released from the plant's processes. The simulation study includes the investigation of the gas cleaning system within the plant, such as the system's operating relationships between the scrubbing efficiency, wear of the scrubber filter bags, maintenance costs and its response to the change of scrubbing circulation. Two sets of simulation runs are performed to seek a balance for the plant's overall system performance, taking into account environmental issues (fluoride emissions) and cost. The final simulation result demonstrates that cost savings can be achieved when the plant operates in a cleaner manner.     

中国长江三角洲地区电力行业SO2排放控制的经济分析

总结了中国SO2排放总量控制与排放权交易政策研究与实施3个阶段的主要内容与成果。使用YRDEGS线性规划优化模型对在长江三角洲地区电力行业实施SO2排放权交易所能产生的SO2控制费用的节省、安装FGD装机容量的变化、可引起的脱硫变动成本的节约、SO2排放许可的市场需求、不同交易方式所引起的脱硫费用变化进行分析,得到以下主要结论：若发电量保持在2000年的水平,实现SO2减排20％的目标,采用排污交易脱硫费用将会节省38％,可以少安装FGD的机组装机容量达6．3GW;随着发电量的增加,对SO2排放许可指标的市场需求呈增长趋势,发电量的改变比逐步严格的SO2减排要求更会增加区域SO2减排的负担;当SO2排放削减率为20％时,在不实施排污交易时脱硫费用约为30亿～45亿元;实施跨省排污交易以电厂为交易单位时费用最低,约为6亿～28．5亿元,脱硫费用可以节省16．5亿～24亿元。     

印染废水物化试验研究

通过对多种化学药剂处理印染废水原水和只经过生化的印染废水出水的试验研究,找出了药剂在各自最佳的反应条件下的处理成本和处理效果。结果表明,处理吨水成本最低而又处理效果较好的药剂为A料和石灰的组合,它对印染废水的原水色度、CODCr的处理效果可达85％、46％,对生化出水色度、CODCr的处理效果可达80．3％、47％。     

用分担率-效益模型确定自动监测系统的安装范围

考虑到我国的污染物控制目标和国情,从污染物排放总量控制及其成本-效益(cost-effect)的角度出发,综合各方面因素对污染物分担率的影响,提出综合累积分担率-效益模型,利用该模型可以计算出成本-效益最优的安装范围.同时可根据环境管理所容许的最低效益,确定需要安装自动在线监测系统的范围及其方法,并以1999年某市污染源COD排放量和1998年全国重点污染源COD排放量的统计资料为例,计算了需要建立自动在线监测系统的企业数及其总成本,为环境管理决策提供科学依据.      

广州市城市生活垃圾管理系统规划

运用最小费用规划模型,选取运输费用以及各处理设施（包括垃圾焚烧、制肥、回收利用、 填埋和中转处理）的处理费用为因子,同时把经济收入作为负的费用从中扣除,对选取的三个规划方案进行了计算,得出了广州市市区城市生活垃圾管理系统处理的最低费用,并给出了市属8个区的垃圾量相应的处理设置。     

一种新型除尘器在梅山铁矿选厂的应用

介绍了喷雾双向旋流除尘器的原理及在矿山选厂除尘中的应用。     

Benefits of Investing in Ecosystem Restoration

Measures aimed at conservation or restoration of ecosystems are often seen as net‐cost projects by governments and businesses because they are based on incomplete and often faulty cost‐benefit analyses. After screening over 200 studies, we examined the costs (94 studies) and benefits (225 studies) of ecosystem restoration projects that had sufficient reliable data in 9 different biomes ranging from coral reefs to tropical forests. Costs included capital investment and maintenance of the restoration project, and benefits were based on the monetary value of the total bundle of ecosystem services provided by the restored ecosystem. Assuming restoration is always imperfect and benefits attain only 75% of the maximum value of the reference systems over 20 years, we calculated the net present value at the social discount rates of 2% and 8%. We also conducted 2 threshold cum sensitivity analyses. Benefit‐cost ratios ranged from about 0.05:1 (coral reefs and coastal systems, worst‐case scenario) to as much as 35:1 (grasslands, best‐case scenario). Our results provide only partial estimates of benefits at one point in time and reflect the lower limit of the welfare benefits of ecosystem restoration because both scarcity of and demand for ecosystem services is increasing and new benefits of natural ecosystems and biological diversity are being discovered. Nonetheless, when accounting for even the incomplete range of known benefits through the use of static estimates that fail to capture rising values, the majority of the restoration projects we analyzed provided net benefits and should be considered not only as profitable but also as high‐yielding investments. Beneficios de Invertir en la Restauración de Ecosistemas     

基于成本-效益准则的高层RC框架结构优化设计(Ⅰ)——方法

成本-效益准则是基于性能的抗震设计的重要原则,该准则在设计中除了考虑技术要素外,还考虑经济、社会等诸多因素,它所追求的设计目标为结构在其寿命周期内的总造价最小.因此,结构全寿命造价评估是基于性能的抗震设计的基本问题.在已有全寿命造价优化模型的基础上,提出了三目标函数全寿命造价优化模型.与已有的全寿命造价模型相比,该模型除考虑结构初始造价、损失期望外,还考虑了反映结构设计与施工复杂性的构件截面类型数量;另外,还将结构在其运行期间的检查、维护费用及由于优化导致建筑使用面积变化所引起的租金收益影响也列入到结构全寿命造价中.最后,基于所提出的优化模型,给出了以多目标遗传算法为搜索引擎、运用MATLAB语言开发的高层RC框架结构基于成本-效益准则的自动优化程序流程图.     

Mileage-based pricing insurance and its impact on China

Mileage-based pricing insurance,such as PAYD,is known as the"green insurance"because it is low-carbon and environmentally effective,which is the biggest innovation in the global auto insurance industry seen in the past decade.Starting from the perspective of economic externalities,vehicle negative externalities in China are described.In order to introduce mileage-based pricing insurance to the Chinese insurance industry,this paper reviews the current practice of PAYD insurance and its impacts on transport externalities,including air pollution,climate change,energy dependency,congestion,accidents,and others.Finally,enlightenment and policy suggestions are proposed,in the hope of better promoting the low-carbon economy development over the whole of China.