绿色化学设计过程的定量化方法

通过对环境优先污染物的优化选择策略的研究，设计一种新的评价方法将化学物质对环境的影响定量化。具体先设计一个环境因子，尽量全面考虑到化学物质对环境的各种影响。用人力资本法对其进行经济评价，使最终通过化学物质的环境因子可得到定量化的经济影响。     

阳极位置对新型ABR-BEF系统处理性能及微生物群落的影响

研究了阳极所处位置对新型厌氧折流板-生物电Fenton（ABR-BEF）系统处理中药废水效能与产电能力的影响,并对各格室污泥的疏松胞外聚合物（LB-EPS）及紧密胞外聚合物（TB-EPS）组分情况进行了分析,继而通过高通量测序技术对系统中微生物群落演替进行了探讨.结果表明,当将阳极电极位置由系统的第4格室调整到第3、第2格室后,由于阳极与阴极距离的增大,COD平均去除率由原来的90%分别下降到70%和65%;输出电压由149.8mV降至95.3mV、50.0mV左右,同时最大功率密度由76.78mW/m³减少到55.57mW/m³和52.87mW/m³;但阴极室对邻苯二酚的降解率仍保持在95%左右.改变阳极位置后LB-EPS、TB-EPS中蛋白质含量均下降,TB-EPS尤为明显;而对于多糖而言,阳极在第3号格室时,各组分多糖含量最高.阳极位置由第4格室改为第2格室后,第1到第4格室甲烷丝状菌属（Methanothrix）所占比例分别增大到71.09%、72.47%、58.03%和76.79%;在总细菌纲水平上产电菌所属的d变形菌纲（Deltaproteobacteria）在第1到第4格室中分别减少了2.54%、6.06%、4.40%和4.87%,阳极与阴极距离的增大使得产电菌数量减少,这成为该系统产电能力下降的重要原因.     

Environmental,economic and social costs and benefits of a packaging waste management system: A Portuguese case study

The impact of the management of packaging waste on the environment, economic growth and job creation is analyzed in this paper. This integrated assessment intends to cover a gap in the literature for this type of studies, using the specific case study of the Portuguese packaging waste management system (SIGRE).The net environmental benefits associated with the management of packaging waste, are calculated using the Life Cycle Assessment methodology. The results show that, for the categories studied, the impacts associated to SIGRE's various activities are surpassed by the benefits associated to material and energy recovery, with special focus on recycling. For example, in 2011 SIGRE avoided the emission of 116 kt CO₂ equiv. – the equivalent carbon emission of the electricity consumption of 124.000 households in Portugal.The economic impact of SIGRE is evaluated through Input–Output Analysis. It was found that SIGRE's activities also have a significant economic impact. For example, their added value are ranked amongst the upper third of the economic activities with highest multiplier effect at national level: this means that for each Euro of value added generated within SIGRE, 1.25 additional € are added to the rest of the economy (multiplier effect of 2.25).Regarding the social impacts of SIGRE, the number of direct jobs associated with the system is estimated to be more than two thousand and three hundred workers. Out of these, 83% are connected to the management of municipal waste packaging (selective collection and sorting), 15% are connected to the management of non-municipal packaging waste and only 2% are connected to the Sociedade Ponto Verde (SPV, green dot society in English) – the management entity responsible for SIGRE.In general terms, the results obtained provide quantitative support to the EEA (2011) suggestion that moving up the waste hierarchy – from landfilling to recycling – creates jobs and boosts the economy.     

Packaging waste recycling in Europe: Is the industry paying for it?

This paper describes and examines the schemes established in five EU countries for the recycling of packaging waste. The changes in packaging waste management were mainly implemented since the Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste entered into force. The analysis of the five systems allowed the authors to identify very different approaches to cope with the same problem: meet the recovery and recycling targets imposed by EU law. Packaging waste is a responsibility of the industry. However, local governments are generally in charge of waste management, particularly in countries with Green Dot schemes or similar extended producer responsibility systems. This leads to the need of establishing a system of financial transfers between the industry and the local governments (particularly regarding the extra costs involved with selective collection and sorting). Using the same methodological approach, the authors also compare the costs and benefits of recycling from the perspective of local public authorities for France, Portugal and Romania. Since the purpose of the current paper is to take note of who is paying for the incremental costs of recycling and whether the industry (i.e. the consumer) is paying for the net financial costs of packaging waste management, environmental impacts are not included in the analysis. The work carried out in this paper highlights some aspects that are prone to be improved and raises several questions that will require further research. In the three countries analyzed more closely in this paper the industry is not paying the net financial cost of packaging waste management. In fact, if the savings attained by diverting packaging waste from other treatment (e.g. landfilling) and the public subsidies to the investment on the “recycling system” are not considered, it seems that the industry should increase the financial support to local authorities (by 125% in France, 50% in Portugal and 170% in Romania). However, in France and Portugal the industry is paying local authorities more than just the incremental costs of recycling (full costs of selective collection and sorting minus the avoided costs). To provide a more definitive judgment on the fairness of the systems it will be necessary to assess the cost efficiency of waste management operators (and judge whether operators are claiming costs or eliciting “prices”).     

Cross-country electricity trade,renewable energy and European transmission infrastructure policy

This paper develops a multi-country multi-sector general equilibrium model, integrating high-frequency electricity dispatch and trade decisions, to study the effects of electricity transmission infrastructure (TI) expansion and renewable energy (RE) penetration in Europe for gains from trade and carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector. TI can benefit or degrade environmental outcomes, depending on RE penetration: it complements emissions abatement by mitigating dispatch problems associated with volatile and spatially dispersed RE but also promotes higher average generation from low-cost coal if RE production is too low. Against the backdrop of European decarbonization and planned TI expansion, we find that emissions increase for current and targeted year-2020 levels of RE production and decrease for year-2030 targets. Enhanced TI yields sizeable gains from trade that depend positively on RE penetration, without creating large adverse impacts on regional equity.     

盐度对MFC产电及其微生物群落的影响

本文研究了模拟废水中不同盐度对微生物燃料电池(Microbial fuel cell, MFC)性能的影响.当向MFC中依次添加0,20,40,60,70g/L NaCl时,MFC的最大输出电压从660mV下降到130mV,库仑效率也从67%下降到4%.如果向MFC中直接添加40g/L和70g/L NaCl并运行两个周期后,MFC无电能输出,然而,停止添加NaCl(盐度解除)后MFC产电性能能够在60h内恢复.此外,当盐度高于40g/L NaCl时,阳极微生物群落发生明显的变化.研究结果可为MFC或其他生物反应器处理盐度废水提供一定的依据.     

Fixed-bed adsorption of Malachite Green onto binary solid mixture of adsorbents: seashells and eggshells

In this work, continuous removal of Malachite Green from aqueous solution by adsorption was investigated using a laboratory scale fixed-bed column packed with binary solid mixture of seashell powder (SSP) and eggshell powder (ESP). The effects of initial dye concentration, feed flow rate, bed height, and the SSP?:?ESP ratio in the binary solid mixture on the breakthrough characteristics were studied. The breakthrough time decreased with increase in the flow rate and the initial dye concentration. The breakthrough time also varied greatly with change in bed height. The breakthrough time increased from 17.2?h to 34.5?h with increase in bed height from 6?cm to 12?cm. The breakthrough time was significantly affected by the change in the SSP?:?ESP ratio in the binary mixture. The breakthrough time decreased with increase in the SSP ratio in the binary mixture. In order to determine the column kinetic parameters, three different column kinetic models, namely Adams–Bohart, Bed Depth Service Time (BDST), and Yoon–Nelson models were fitted to the dynamic flow experimental data. The BDST model showed good agreement with the experimental results at all the process parameters studied. Results suggest that this novel approach of simultaneous utilization of adsorbents can be adopted for the treatment of dye-bearing effluents.     

China's Grain for Green Program has reduced soil erosion in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle reaches of the Yellow River

Severe soil erosion in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle reaches of the Yellow River is a serious environmental problem in western China. In order to control this soil erosion, the national government implemented the Grain for Green Program (GGP) in Sichuan Province (in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River) and Shaanxi Province (in the middle reaches of the Yellow River) in 1999. To evaluate the effects of the GGP on soil erosion, the present study investigated the relationships between annual precipitation and three parameters, annual runoff, sediment concentration, and sediment discharge, for these rivers. As the area covered by the GGP increased, sediment concentration and sediment discharge both decreased, and the correlation with the GGP area was much stronger than the correlation with annual precipitation. Therefore, China's GGP appears to be controlling soil erosion in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the middle reaches of the Yellow River.     

Challenges for a sustainable resource use: Uncertainty,trade, and climate policies

We integrate new challenges to thinking about resource markets and sustainable resource use policies in a general framework. The challenges, emerging from six papers that JEEM publishes in a special issue, are (i) demand uncertainty and stockpiling, (ii) international trade and resource dependence, (iii) deforestation, and (iv) intertemporal effects of climate change policies (“Green Paradox”). We discuss new insights and results on these issues by fitting them into the Hotelling model of non-renewable resource depletion.     

用改进的TRAP法测定树木端粒酶活性

TRAP法是一种常用的测定端粒酶活性的方法,但并不太适合测定木本植物的端粒酶活性.因此以油松针叶为实验材料,对TRAP法进行改进.参照前人的研究通过对比实验证明,在端粒酶提取过程中将PEG8000加入上清液,可获得高效的端粒酶.在此基础上,对PCR先导引选择TS、模板浓度选择100 ng,最终获得油松针叶高质量的端粒酶PCR产物.应用SYBR Green I替代银染液对电泳凝胶进行染色,获得条带清晰、重复性好的电泳结果.通过对油松针叶、银杏叶片、胡杨愈伤组织、沙冬青悬浮细胞等4种木本植物实验材料进行测定,证明该改进的技术体系可能是适合于木本植物端粒酶活性测定的稳定的、灵敏度高的可行方法.图5表1参17