Canadian Environmental Effects Monitoring: Experiences with Pulp and Paper and Metal Mining Regulatory Programs

In Canada, Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM) programs exist within two regulations: the Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations and the newMetal Mining Effluent Regulations under the Canadian Fisheries Act. EEM provides a biological, effects-based feedback loop to assess the effectiveness of technology-based regulations in protecting receiving environments. The promulgation of the Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations, in 1992, represented a significant step forward in the Canadian regulatory approach by incorporating directly into a regulation a requirement to assess the effects of effluent discharges on receiving environments using proven scientific monitoring methodologies. Similarly, an assessment of the aquatic impacts of mines resulted in recommendations to amend the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, recently promulgated in 2002, and includes an EEM program as a science-based feedback loop. As such, these regulations recognize the possibility that national, technology-based standards may not necessarily protect all receiving environments because of the diversity and variability of both discharges and receiving sites across the country. Since that time, EEM has improved its flexibility by considering both advances in science and the uniqueness of monitoring sites across Canada to allow the most appropriate and cost-effective monitoring approaches at each site while maintaining national consistency. This paper discusses the use of monitoring under two Canadian regulations to assess effects on aquatic ecosystems. As well, the National EEM approach to maintaining up-to-date scientific practices in a national regulatory program is discussed using examples.     

Optimal site selection for fluting paper mill from agricultural wastes in Golestan Province,Iran

Today, the issue of site selection for industrial units in developing countries which are poor in wood resources is considered as a vital matter and it is one of the key measures in the process of building industrial and giving service units. In every country there are some provinces and states which are more useful than other parts owing to primary infrastructures and facilities for industrialisation. As one of the suitable provinces of Iran, thanks to its lignocelluloses resources with 1,822,696 tons of exploitable waste, Golestan Province has a very good potential for building lignocelluloses products mills, such as fluting paper. For this end, in 2010, effective indices in fluting paper mill establishment were recognised in Golestan Province. Results showed that materials and products were the most important main indices and the preparation cost of raw materials was the most important sub-index. Finally, questionnaires were prepared for the best site selection and choices were evaluated according to the structure of interests and costs. The results of calculations performed through analytical hierarchy processes and in Expert Choice Software indicated that Gonbad City had the highest interest/cost ratio, and therefore, it is the best place for the establishment of floating paper mills from agricultural wastes in Golestan Province.     

废纸制浆造纸业环境影响评价的清洁生产分析

文章介绍了清洁生产的涵义和评价内容,明确了清洁生产分析在建设项目环境影响评价工作中的必要性。以重庆某废纸制浆造纸厂为分析对象,从原辅材料指标、产品指标、资源指标、工艺技术与装备水平、能耗指标及污染物产生指标这六个方面对该厂生产工艺进行了有效而全面的清洁生产分析,并以此探讨废纸制浆造纸厂环境影响评价中清洁生产分析的指标体系、指标权值和评价方法,为完成废纸制浆造纸行业环评过程中的清洁生产分析提供参考。     

絮凝-BC法-氧化絮凝工艺处理高浓度印钞废水试验

采用絮凝-BC法-氧化絮凝工艺对高浓度印钞废水的处理进行试验研究。结果表明,该工艺技术可行,处理后COD去除率达到99.9%,出水达到了国家规定的一级排放标准。     

Recovery and recycling of post-consumer waste materials. Part 1. Generalities and target wastes (paper,cardboard and aluminium cans)

Recycling of post-consumer waste materials is gaining increased interest due to public awareness, legislative promotion and imposition, economic benefits and appropriate technologies being available. The present paper does not deal with municipal solid waste as such, but only with the recyclable constituents. The paper does not aim at presenting recycling process details and/or fundamental research results, but reviews the major recyclables with their reuse potential, recycling technologies used, problems, solutions and potential areas of future research and development. These target recyclables include paper and cardboard, aluminium cans, glass beverage bottles, scrap metal and steel cans, scrap tyres, batteries and household hazardous waste. The present paper sets the overall picture and deals with paper, cardboard and aluminium cans only. A second part of the paper assesses the other target recyclables. The assessment of the waste availability, the existing and currently developed recovery and recycling technologies, and the economically rewarding markets while recycling, stress the technical, economic and environmental importance of this waste management sector. The activities associated with the recovery and recycling of post-consumer wastes require a strong sustainable engineering input at all phases of the treatment, from input quality control, to the selection of the most appropriate technology and the delivery of the recyclables as readily reusable feedstock.     

《自然资源学报》1986—2015年零被引论文分析

为达到减少零被引论文发表数量、提高期刊质量与影响力的目的,在中国知网中检索了《自然资源学报》1986—2015年发表的论文作为研究的源数据,从刊文量及零被引率的变化、下载频次分布、作者情况、基金资助情况、所属学科领域等5个方面对零被引论文进行了详细的分析。研究结果表明：1）从季刊到双月刊和月刊,刊文量增加了,但零被引论文比例却没有随刊文量的增加而增加;2）零被引论文虽暂未被引用,但仍然存在一定程度的下载量,将来有可能被引,但也是低被引论文;3）作者分布方面,学生占比较大,因博士研究生是发文主流导致零被引论文中博士研究生人数多于硕士研究生,初、中级职称多于副高级、高级职称,由于高等院校和研究院所是投稿主力,因发文基数大导致零被引论文中高等院校和研究院所多于地方机构,作者群人数以1人为主,机构数量以1个为主;4）论文被引与否和基金资助数量和类别相关性不大;5）零被引论文学科分布以土壤学、地学、气象学和环境生物学为主。最后提出相应对策,建议通过“作者-审稿专家-编辑协同控制”过程,减少科技期刊零被引论文的产生,从而提高科技期刊的学术水平和影响力。     

造纸行业的可持续发展之路

以山东省造纸行业探索可持续发展之路的情况论述了造纸行业取得环境和经济双赢效果的宝贵经验。     

茂名高岭土矿高岭石的矿物学特征及其涂布性能

茂名高岭土矿的高蛉石,有序度高,晶粒细小(<2微米),沿α、b轴横向连结,无书册状、蠕虫状的大集晶,SiO_2/Al_2O_3值接近高岭石的理论值,Fe_2O_3、TiO_2等杂质含量低于0.5％,并可加工分离,为当前有开发前景的优质涂布原料。     

物化-生化组合工艺处理造纸化学品废水的中试研究

针对造纸化学品生产废水具有成分复杂,可生化性差,有机物、NH3-N、Cl-浓度高的特点,采用"初沉池-悬浮生物滤池(A/O)-混凝沉淀池-催化氧化池-硝化滤池"组合工艺对造纸化学品生产废水进行了中试研究,取得很好的处理效果。结果表明,在进水COD为4 832～12 846 mg/L,NH3-N为39～430 mg/L,Cl-为3 200～15 000 mg/L的情况下,处理后出水COD小于500 mg/L,NH3-N小于35 mg/L,主要指标达到污水综合排放标准(GB 8978-1996)三级标准。     

Improved enzymatic hydrolysis of waste paper by ozone pretreatment

Waste paper samples made from newsprint, copier paper, and magazine paper, as well as samples of kraft pulp and thermomechanical pulp, were pretreated with ozone to improve enzymatic hydrolysis. The ozone treatment of pulps of newsprint and of magazine paper increased the specific surface areas and total pore volumes while decreasing the lignin content so that these values became similar to those of thermomechanical pulps. These morphological and chemical changes in the pulps resulted in the increased access of cellulase to the pulp fiber surface and increased enzymatic hydrolysis. For copier paper, in which the lignin content was very low, additives on the pulp fiber surface were oxidized and removed by ozone treatment and extraction, and this allowed improved enzymatic hydrolysis. In contrast, surface areas and total pore volumes of kraft pulp and bleached kraft pulp were decreased by the ozone treatment, resulting in morphological changes in the pulps that decreased enzymatic hydrolysis.