Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?

Blue Carbon Ecosystems (BCEs) help mitigate and adapt to climate change but their integration into policy, such as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), remains underdeveloped. Most BCE conservation requires community engagement, hence community-scale projects must be nested within the implementation of NDCs without compromising livelihoods or social justice. Thirty-three experts, drawn from academia, project development and policy, each developed ten key questions for consideration on how to achieve this. These questions were distilled into ten themes, ranked in order of importance, giving three broad categories of people, policy & finance, and science & technology. Critical considerations for success include the need for genuine participation by communities, inclusive project governance, integration of local work into national policies and practices, sustaining livelihoods and income (for example through the voluntary carbon market and/or national Payment for Ecosystem Services and other types of financial compensation schemes) and simplification of carbon accounting and verification methodologies to lower barriers to entry.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-022-01723-1.     

用DWZ接触氧化处理工艺处理屠宰废水

实行畜禽定点屠宰后，含有大量有机污染物的畜禽屠宰废水的处理问题急需解决，经浙江省海宁市某畜禽屠宰厂运行证实，采用DWZ接触氧化处理工艺，具有投资少，占地面积小，处理效果好，抗冲击能力强，操作简便，运行费用低等特点，废水经处理后可达到GB8978－1996 Ⅰ级排放标准，得到了社会各界的广泛好评，本文主要介绍了该处理设施的处理工艺，运行特点及优越性，提供一条治理畜禽宰废水的有效途径。     

Decolorization of reactive Brilliant Blue KN-R by immobilized cells of Aspergillus ficuum

Aspergillus ficuum was immobilized with sodium alginate, and decolorization of Reactive Brilliant Blue KN-R was studied on immobilized and free Aspergillus ficuum. The optimal preparation condition of the strain immobilization was obtained by the orthogonal test, it is sodium alginate 3%, CaCl2 5%, wet mycelia 30 g/L, calcific time 8 h. It was found that the immobilized cells could effectively decolorize Reactive Brilliant Blue KN-R, the optimum temperature and pH were 33℃ and 5.0, respectively. The kinetics study of decolorization of immobilized cells showed that the decolorization of Aspergillus ficuum immobilized conformed to zero-order reaction model. The decolorization efficiency of immobilized cell compared with that of free cell in different physical conditions. Results showed that the decolorization of immobilized cells with mycelia had the best efficiency. The immobilized cells could be reused after the first decolorization.     

Decolourization of reactive brilliant blue KN-R by immobilized cells of Aspergillus ficuum

Aspergillus ficuum was immobilized with sodium alginate,and decolourization of Brilliant Blue NK-R was studied on immobilized and free Aspergillus ficuum.The optimal preparation condition of the strain immobilization was obtained by the orthogonal test,it is sodium alginate 3%,CaCl2 5%,wet mycelia 30g/L,calcific time 8h.It was found that the immobilized cells could effectively decolourize Reactive Brilliant Blue KN-R,the optimum temperature and pH were 33℃ and 5.0,respectively.The kinetics study of decolourization of immobilized eclls showed that the decolourization of Aspergillus ficuum immobilized conformed to zero-order reaction model.The decolourization efficiency of immobilized cell compared with that of free cell in different physical conditions.Results showed that the decolourization of immobilized cells with mycelia had the best efficiency.The immobilized cells could be reused after the first decolourization.     

焙烧态镁铝水滑石处理阴离子染料废水研究

采用传统过饱和双滴法合成出Mg/Al为3的碳酸根型水滑石(LDH),经500℃高温煅烧制备出焙烧产物(CLDH),用x-射线、红外光谱和电镜对它们进行了表征。分别考察了焙烧温度、反应时间、pH、投加量、反应温度和初始浓度等因素对焙烧态水滑石吸附酸性铬蓝K模拟废水效果的影响。结果表明,对于100mg/L的铬蓝K溶液,500℃焙烧态水滑石,投加量为0.06g,在pH=3.5左右,室温下反应1h,去除率最高可达98%以上。四次回收重复利用的CLDH对铬蓝K的去除率仍为90%以上,CLDH是一种良好的环保吸附材料。     

Experiments on vertical transverse mixing in a large-scale heterogeneous model aquifer

Vertical transverse mixing is known to be a controlling factor in natural attenuation of extended biodegradable plumes originating from continuously emitting sources. We perform conservative and reactive tracer tests in a quasi two-dimensional 14 m long sand box in order to quantify vertical mixing in heterogeneous media. The filling mimics natural sediments including a distribution of different hydro-facies, made of different sand mixtures, and micro-structures within the sand lenses. We quantify the concentration distribution of the conservative tracer by the analysis of digital images taken at steady state during the tracer-dye experiment. Heterogeneity causes plume meandering, leading to distorted concentration profiles. Without knowledge about the velocity distribution, it is not possible to determine meaningful vertical dispersion coefficients from the concentration profiles. Using the stream-line pattern resulting from an inverse model of previous experiments in the sand box, we can correct for the plume meandering. The resulting vertical dispersion coefficient is approximately approximately 4 x 10(-)(9) m(2)/s. We observe no distinct increase in the vertical dispersion coefficient with increasing travel distance, indicating that heterogeneity has hardly any impact on vertical transverse mixing. In the reactive tracer test, we continuously inject an alkaline solution over a certain height into the domain that is occupied otherwise by an acidic solution. The outline of the alkaline plume is visualized by adding a pH indicator into both solutions. From the height and length of the reactive plume, we estimate a transverse dispersion coefficient of approximately 3 x 10(-)(9) m(2)/s. Overall, the vertical transverse dispersion coefficients are less than an order of magnitude larger than pore diffusion coefficients and hardly increase due to heterogeneity. Thus, we conclude for the assessment of natural attenuation that reactive plumes might become very large if they are controlled by vertical dispersive mixing.     

Mechanism of concentration addition toxicity: they are different for nonpolar narcotic chemicals, polar narcotic chemicals and reactive chemicals

According to the toxicity mechanism of the individual chemicals, the concentration addition toxicity mechanism is revealed for nonpolar-narcotic-chemical mixtures, polar-narcotic-chemical mixtures and reactive-chemical mixtures, respectively. For nonpolar-narcotic-chemical mixtures, the partitioning of individual chemicals from water to biophase was determined, and the result shows that their concentration additive effect results from no competitive partitioning among individual chemicals. For polar-narcotic-chemical mixtures, their toxicity are contributed by two factors (the total baseline toxicity and the hydrogen bond donor activity of individual chemicals), and it is the concentration additive effect for either of these two factors that leads to their concentration addition toxicity. In addition, the interactions between the reactive chemicals and the biological macromolecules are discussed thoroughly. The results suggest that the net effect of these interactions is zero, and it is this zero net effect that leads to the concentration addition toxicity mechanism for reactive-chemical mixtures.     

A sensibility analysis of model selection in modeling the reactive transport of cesium in crushed granite

We performed a sensibility analysis of model selection in modeling the reactive transport of cesium in crushed granite through model calibration and validation. Based on some solid phase analysis data and kinetic batch experimental results, we hypothesized three two-site sorption models in the LEHGC reactive transport model to fit the breakthrough curves (BTCs) from the corresponding column experiments. The analysis of breakthrough curves shows that both the empirical two-site kinetic linear sorption model and the semi-mechanistic/semi-empirical two-site kinetic surface complexation model, regardless of their complexity, can match our experimental data fairly well under given test conditions. A numerical experiment to further compare the two models shows that they behave differently when the pore velocity is not of the same order of magnitude as our test velocities. This result indicates that further investigations to help determine a better model are needed. We suggest that a multistage column experiment, which tests over the whole range of practical flow velocities, should be conducted to help alleviate inadequate hypothesized models.     

改进Fenton体系处理蒽醌染料的研究

以活性艳蓝KN-R作为研究对象,用UV/Fenton和solar/Fenton/草酸(H2C O4)体系对其进行处理,对反应体系的影响因素作综合的评价.得到处理蒽醌染料废水的最佳条件:dye(活性艳蓝KN-R):Fe2 :H2O2:H2C2O4为5:1:15:1.5,pH为3.0,反应时间为40 min.在最佳条件下,solar/Fenton/H2C2O4体系脱色率达到100%,COD和TOC去除率分别达到87%和66%以上.改进的Fenton方法能使难降解有机染料迅速脱色,矿化程度较高.并对此体系处理活性艳蓝KN-R废水的脱色过程进行动力学模拟,得到此反应为拟一级反应.     

Photocatalytic properties of hierarchical CuO nanosheets synthesized by a solution phase method

CuO nanomaterials were synthesized by a simple solution phase method using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide(CTAB) as a surfactant and their photocatalytic property was determined towards the visible-light assisted degradation of Reactive Black-5 dye. A detailed mechanism for the formation of CuO nanostructures has been proposed.The effect of various experimental parameters such as catalyst amount, dye concentration,p H and oxidizing agent on the dye degradation efficiency was studied. About 87% dye was degraded at p H 2 in the presence of CuO nanosheets under visible light. The enhanced photocatalytic activity of CuO nanosheets can be ascribed to good crystallinity, grain size,surface morphology and a strong absorption in the visible region. CuO is found to be a promising catalyst for industrial waste water treatment.