Abiotic behavior of entrapped petroleum products in the subsurface during leaching

Petroleum products are generally volatile hydrocarbon mixtures. These mixtures may contaminate land surfaces, the unsaturated zone and ground waters at numerous sites and thus represent a long-term source of environmental subsurface pollution. Based on laboratory and field evidence obtained by our research groups and others we emphasize in the present review paper the effect of leaching on the abiotic processes controlling the fate of volatile petroleum hydrocarbon mixtures (VPHMs) in the soil environment. The modification of petroleum hydrocarbon mixtures due to changes in the soil water content is considered the result of a “leaching phenomenon”. The experimental evidence of VPHM behavior in the porous media is linked to four major processes: retention, redistribution and attenuation in the subsurface, and dissolution in the soil water.

Once VPHMs reach the soil surface, their residual concentration and composition is influenced by the amount and quality of the leaching water. The transport and natural attenuation of the VPHMs in the unsaturated zone is affected by the amount and rate of leaching. Since VPHM are a mixture of volatile and non-volatile hydrocarbons whose components differ by several orders of magnitude in their vapor pressure and water solubility, their fates in the soil environment under leaching will be diverse too. This will influence the temporal concentrations of the VPHM components and their distributions with depth, as vapors, solutes, or water-immiscible solutions. Wetting the soil before or after the VPHMs reach it, differentially affects the abiotic processes governing petroleum products behavior into the porous media.     

中学环境教育和STS实验

本文简要地分析了环境教育难于深入开展的原因，介绍了成功的教育方法－－集中实施法，指出借鉴STS思想，在中学理科教改中来实施环境教育是今后的方向。     

我国城镇可持续发展实验区建设的理论与实践

可持续发展综合实验区是我国实施可持续发展战略的重要行动。本文在分析、总结我国城镇可持续发展实验区实践的基础上,提出了建设城镇可持续发展实验区的基本思路     

山西省辛安泉氮污染预测实验拟合数学模型的研究

本文在环境水文地质地球化学调查的基础上，以相似论为依据，采用模拟实验方法，获取ＮＨ４在水－岩土体系中的运移规律，进而建立实验拟合模型，经检验修正，可初步用于污染预测，这种把ＮＨ４的力学迁移与地球化学的融为一体的建模方法，具有合理，直观，简便等优点。     

地铁十字换乘车站全尺寸实验研究:I.站厅火灾

为了全面了解在不同通风模式下地铁十字换乘车站站厅火灾发展规律,通过在8A编组地铁十字换乘车站公共站厅层开展1 MW规模的全尺寸火灾实验,对不同通风模式下换乘地铁车站站厅层公共区火灾场景下的烟气前锋到达时间、烟气扩散与沉降范围和楼扶梯处温度等参数进行分析研究。研究结果表明:在换乘线路A线站厅层发生火灾时,受到出入口自然风以及站厅层空间结构的影响,站厅内形成了由站厅北侧向南侧方向的风压,有效抑制了烟气向B线站厅扩散;通风排烟系统能够有效降低烟气扩散速率,控制烟气扩散范围和沉降高度;针对此类结构车站站厅的防排烟设计,应综合考虑通风、出入口位置和空间构筑物对火灾烟气扩散的影响,确保火灾过程中人员疏散路径和楼扶梯处烟气层高度和烟气温度处于安全水平。     

鼠李糖脂胶团强化超滤处理含铅废水研究

以实验室配制的模拟含铅废水为研究对象,探讨了生物表面活性剂鼠李糖脂强化超滤技术对含铅废水的处理效果。实验结果表明,影响重金属离子铅去除率因素的主次顺序为:p H值鼠李糖脂浓度重金属离子铅的初始浓度操作压力,去除重金属铅离子的最佳条件是:鼠李糖脂浓度为8 CMC,p H值为9,操作压力为300 k Pa,最大去除率可达到89.66%。     

基于正交试验法的黄铁矿自燃倾向性影响因素分析

利用X衍射仪、X荧光分析仪对黄铁矿进行了成分分析,运用激光粒度仪对黄铁矿进行了粒径分析。以粒度、空气流量、质量为正交试验的3个因子,运用正交试验法设计实验。利用热分析仪对黄铁矿进行了升温氧化试验,得到5、10、15 K/min升温速率下的TG-DSC曲线。运用FWO等转化率法计算黄铁矿的活化能,并将其作为黄铁矿自燃倾向性评价指标。结果表明,三因素对黄铁矿自燃倾向性影响程度为:粒径空气流量质量,且粒径的大小与活化能的大小成比例关系;当粒径为131.10μm,质量为10 mg,空气流量为30 m L/min时,黄铁矿自燃倾向性最小。     

Integrating nature-based tourism and forestry in private lands under heterogeneous visitor preferences for forest attributes

Developing nature-based tourism in private lands calls for new mechanisms to consolidate the interests of the tourism industry, visitors, and landowners. This choice experiment study elaborates on the heterogeneity of visitors’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for enhanced forest amenities and ecosystem services. The survey, targeting domestic and foreign tourists visiting the Ruka-Kuusamo area in Finland, considered four attributes: landscape quality, outdoor routes, forest biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. For observed heterogeneity, the visitors were grouped by their attitudes towards forest management. Unobserved heterogeneity in visitors’ choice behaviour and WTP was examined with the latent class model. While most visitors had environmentally friendly attitudes and were willing to pay, especially for enhanced landscape quality and biodiversity, considerable heterogeneity was revealed in terms of three segments with distinctive attitudes, choice behaviour and WTP. The variation in WTP has important implications for the design of a scheme of payments for environmental management.     

基于BP神经网络的岩石损伤声发射事件源定位研究*

工程岩体一般包含大量的节理、裂隙等各类缺陷,利用AE技术可以对缺陷进行定位,但仍然有很大误差。为进一步减小AE定位误差,确定缺陷位置,做好安全预警工作,研究提高岩石声发射定位精度的优化方法。利用断铅实验模拟产生声发射信号,将声发射信号特征参数中的幅值、能量、振铃计数以及到达时差作为输入,断铅点真实坐标作为输出,构建BP神经网络模型,并通过实验确定最优隐含层数等参数,最后通过交叉学习训练交叉预测得出断铅点坐标,并与基于到达时差的传统定位法以及考虑材料各向异性条件下的波速优化算法进行对比。结果表明:BP神经网络算法与传统方法相比,板状岩石声发射定位的误差显著减小,定位精度提高;岩石试件定位误差的误差波动更为平稳,有效改善了声发射源位置对定位效果的影响。本方法为岩石缺陷的精确定位提供了1种较好的技术手段。     

Second organic aerosol formation from the ozonolysis of α-pinene in the presence of dry submicron ammonium sulfate aerosol

An indoor chamber facility is described for investigation of atmospheric aerosol chemistry. Two sets of α-pinene ozonolysis experiments were conducted in the presence of dry ammonium sulfate seed particle: ozone limited experiments and α-pinene limited experiments. The concentration of gas phase and particle phase species was monitored continuously by on-line instruments and recorded automatically by data sampling system. The evolution of size distribution was measured by a scanning mobility particle sizer ...