Sediment analysis to support the recent glacial origin of DDT pollution in Lake Iseo (Northern Italy)

In the present study, a depth-related distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in sediments of Lake Iseo, one of the major southern Alpine Italian lakes, is reported in order to further test the hypothesis of melting Alpine glaciers as a secondary source of contamination. In a previous paper, a “glacier contamination hypothesis” was suggested to explain the unexpected contamination of the biota of Lake Iseo, mainly fed by the Alpine melting ice.The sediment core analyses covered around the last 50 years. The organic matter profile evaluated as a Loss-On-Ignition percentage indicated transition of the basin from an oligotrophic to a mesotrophic status at around the early 1970s, but there was no evidence of the shift to eutrophy in the 1980s. Among DDTs, pp’DDE was the predominant metabolite, accounting on average for 79.4% of the total DDT concentrations and ranging from 6.4 to 447.5 ng g⁻¹ d.w. PCBs ranged from 5.0 to 163.7 ng g⁻¹ d.w. The maximum PCB concentrations were found in sediment layers corresponding to the 1970s when the highest production and use of these compounds occurred in Italy. In contrast, concentrations of DDTs showed a sharp increase from the early 1990s, long after their agricultural use was banned in Italy. This delayed pollution provides support for the hypothesis that the recent retreat of glaciers represents a secondary pollution source for old pesticides that were stored in the ice at the time of their use in agriculture.     

冰雪中持久性有机污染物（POPs）的研究现状

冰雪是地球生态系统中重要的环境组分,它们不仅直接影响着全球的水循环,而且也直接影响着一些物质在不同纬度和海拔上的分布。随着气候的变化,在中低纬度使用和排放的POPs能够挥发到大气中,并伴随着大气的运动向高纬度高海拔地区迁移,这对生态环境造成了极大的威胁。本文主要介绍了持久性有机污染物的危害、历史排放数据,并详细阐述了国内外研究人员对冰雪中POPs的研究现状。     

Dynamic characteristics of cool thermal energy storage systems—a review

Cool thermal energy storage (CTES) plays a significant role in conserving available energy, improving its utilization, and correcting the mismatch that occurs between the supply and demand of energy. It has been employed in many applications, for example, cool storage systems for air-conditioning and natural cooling of energy-efficient building. CTES is widely used in various industrial applications such as food and pharmacy processing, where large short duration loads are often required. This paper presents a review on CTES systems and characteristics. The dynamic characteristics of chilled water storage system, coil pipe cool storage system, packed bed cool storage system, gas hydrate cool storage system, and ice slurry cool storage system are analyzed and discussed. The applications of CTES system are summarized.     

企业动态核心能力培育与提升——基于NK模型企业组织结构创新路径研究

运用NK模型分析了组织结构创新3个子过程及其对组织结构创新的影响,定义了组织结构创新的3个子过程：管理能力培育管理、组织结构特性定位管理和组织规模控制管理。通过问卷调查方式收集了60家企业的数据,运用SPSS15．0对收集到的数据位进行分析,阐述了企业如何在复杂系统的景观图上达到最优点,使企业达到效益最优。     

黑龙江省的凌汛灾害及其区域划分

根据黑龙江黑河,嫩江（齐齐哈尔、富拉尔基）,佳木斯和哈尔滨四个水文站３０多年的冰情观测记录,分析了黑龙江省河流的冰情特点和凌汛灾害,计算了相应河段５０年一遇和百年一遇流冰厚度极值。最后对黑龙江省河流冰情、凌汛灾害进行了区域划分,为相关的冰工程设计提供了科学合的依据。     

Anthropogenic input of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons into five lakes in Western China

The temporal distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was examined in dated sediments from five lakes in Western China. The surficial concentrations of seven carcinogenic PAHs (BaA, Chyr, BbF, BkF, BaP, DBA and INP, hereafter denoted as PAH₇) were highly site-specific. The ΣPAH₇ concentrations generally increased from the deep layers to surface sediments. The temporal trends of ΣPAH₇ concentrations were clearly different from those reported in developed countries. From 1950s to 1980s, which PAHs started to decrease in developed countries, is the right period that PAHs started to increase rapidly in Western China. The fluxes and mass inventories suggest that the PAH₇ input over the past three decades was much more rapidly than it was before the 1980s. Source identification indicates that the PAHs were primarily from biomass burning and domestic coal combustion, and increasing vehicular and/or industrial coal combustion emission was also found.     

Time trends of perfluorinated compounds from the sediment core of Tokyo Bay, Japan (1950s-2004)

Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) were detected in sediment core samples collected in Tokyo Bay to reveal their time trends. The core sample deposited during 1950s-2004 was divided into two- to three-year intervals and the concentrations of 24 types of PFCs were determined. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) decreased gradually from the early 1990s and its precursor decreased rapidly in the late 1990s, whereas perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) increased rapidly. The observed trends were regarded as a reflection of the shift from perfluorooctyl sulfonyl fluoride (PFOSF)-based products to telomer-based products after the phaseout of PFOSF-based products in 2001. The branched isomers of perfluoroundecanoic acid (PFUnDA) and perfluorotridecanoic acid (PFTrDA) were detected in the sample with its ratio of linear-isomer/branched-isomer concentrations decreasing. In this study, we revealed that the sediment core can serve as a tool for reconstructing the past pollution trend of PFCs and can provide interesting evidence concerning their environmental dynamics and time trend.     

Impact of climate fluctuations on deposition of DDT and hexachlorocyclohexane in mountain glaciers: Evidence from ice core records

How do climate fluctuations affect DDT and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) distribution in the global scale? In this study, the interactions between climate variations and depositions of DDT and HCH in ice cores from Mt. Everest (the Tibetan Plateau), Mt. Muztagata (the eastern Pamirs) and the Rocky Mountains were investigated. All data regarding DDT/HCH deposition were obtained from the published results. Concentrations of DDT and HCH in an ice core from Mt. Everest were associated with the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Concentrations of DDT in an ice core from Mt. Muztagata were significantly correlated with the Siberia High pattern. Concentrations of HCH in an ice core from Snow Dome of the Rocky Mountains responded to the North Atlantic Oscillation. These associations suggested that there are some linkages between climate variations and the global distribution of persistent organic pollutants.     

重力法海冰固态自脱盐的姿态效应

量化定义了海冰脱盐姿态角β和卤管倾斜角α,设计并完成了单层海冰重力固态自脱盐实验,考察了自然条件下海冰固态自脱盐的姿态效应,同时分析了脱盐过程对气温变化的响应.结果表明:气温是影响重力脱盐效果的主要因素,0℃以下气温时有利海冰固态脱盐.低温时,海冰脱盐姿态效应比较明显;但高温时,为气温的影响所弱化.总体而言,海冰为自然生长方向或小角度码放,脱盐效果明显.因此,实际淡化生产时可以通过某种控温机制,动态调控环境温度处于合理温程(-6～0℃),并在设计上尽量保证海冰按自然生长方向码放,以实现高效快速固态排盐.     

天山与珠峰冰芯草酸根的一致性及其环境意义

冰芯中草酸根记录的研究有助于对过去环境变化的认识.色谱分析表明,天山一号冰川所记录的过去43年草酸根的平均含量为3.6?9.2ng/g (x1s, N=534).草酸根具有一个含量约为2ng/g的背景值,在背景值基础上存在含量的突变峰值,多数峰值的含量超过10ng/g,且其增减过程多局限在1年之内.一号冰川与珠穆朗玛峰远东绒布冰川过去40年的草酸根记录具有相同的变化特征.虽然后者的平均含量是前者的7倍左右,但两冰川的草酸根峰值几乎具有一一对应的关系.这种对应关系表明两地区可能拥有同一个草酸根来源或同一类型的来源,因而具有时间上的同期性.草酸根含量的变化与南亚地区工业和经济发展以及环境保护事业的发展历程相一致,它直接或间接地来自人类生产和生活过程中对大气所造成的污染.