地下水环境监测井评估体系构建研究

为科学开展监测井评估,选择井口保护装置/井口状况、井管内径、上部井管保存状态、是否串层、井结构保存状态、井的连通性6个指标,建立监测井维护评估和监测井功能评估方法,构建地下水环境监测井评估体系。监测井维护评估最终的评估结果分为无需修复、修复和报废,用于指导地下水环境监测井维护管理,使之满足长期监测要求;监测井功能评估最终的评估结果分为监测功能良好、监测功能一般和不具有监测功能,用于判定监测井的监测功能状况,是否可以执行当前监测任务。研究可为健全地下水环境监测网络,规范开展地下水环境监测提供技术支撑。     

Safety issues related to the maintenance operations in a vegetable oil refinery: A case study

The present work was focused on maintenance hazards related to vegetable oil refining. An incident occurred in an Italian vegetable oil refinery was presented to evidence this safety criticality. The incident took place during a maintenance shut down, and was associated to the ignition of the solid residual in a packed column. No fatalities or injuries were reported, but the column was strongly damaged and removed from the plant. A specific experimental characterization of the solid residues accumulated in the column, sampled both from the damaged and undamaged parts of the column, was carried out in order to determine the conditions leading to unwanted combustion of the residues. At the same time, samples taken from the damaged column steelwork were subjected to metallurgical analysis aimed at the thermal and mechanical characterization of the steel, obtaining information about the incident duration and temperature reached during the combustion phenomenon. The study evidenced the need of adequate maintenance procedures and safety management in the generic framework of food industry, identified as key lessons learned.     

A study of maintenance-related major accident cases in the 21st century

This paper is based on a review of 183 detailed, major accident investigation and analysis reports related to the handling, processing and storage of hydrocarbons and hazardous chemicals over a decade from 2000 to 2011. The reports cover technical, human and organizational factors. In this paper, the Work and Accident Process (WAP) classification scheme is applied to the accident reports with the intention of investigating to what extent maintenance has been a cause of major accidents and what maintenance-related causes have been the most frequent.The main objectives are: (1) to present more current overall statistics of maintenance-related major accidents, (2) to investigate the trend of maintenance-related major accidents over time, and (3) to investigate which maintenance-related major accident causes are the most frequent, requiring the most attention in the drive for improvement.The paper presents statistical analysis and interpretation of maintenance-related major accidents’ moving averages as well as data related to the types of facility, hazardous substances, major accidents and causes. This is based on a thorough review of accident investigation reports.It is found that out of 183 major accidents in the US and Europe, maintenance was linked to 80 (44%) and that the accident trend is decreasing. The results also show that “lack of barrier maintenance” (50%), “deficient design, organization and resource management” (85%) and “deficient planning/scheduling/fault diagnosis” (69%) are the most frequent causes in terms of the active accident process, the latent accident process and the work process respectively.     

某铁路货车检修车间污染治理分析

某车辆段货车检修中抛丸除锈、电焊、喷漆、探伤等工艺存在粉尘颗粒物、有机废气等职业危害因素.检测表明,电焊烟尘产生的粉尘颗粒物为主要污染源,急需治理.通过改造设置下送上回式的排烟除尘系统,车间污染情况得以有效改善,经检测室内粉尘满足工作场所有害因素职业接触限值要求,颗粒物排放满足国家环保标准要求.     

环境管理体系的保持与维护

探讨企业建立环境管理体系后保持与维护体系应注意的几个问题，介绍了对体系进行持续改进的几种方法和思路。     

环保投资统计指标体系构建研究——以青岛市为例

文章在总结分析国内外环境保护投资统计指标的基础上,制定了环保投资统计指标构建原则;以青岛市为例,构建环保投资统计指标体系;并使用构建的指标体系统计分析了青岛市2014~2015年环保投资情况。结果表明,2014~2015年青岛市环保投资总额分别为86.30亿元、90.69亿元,其中,污染治理设施投资是环保投资的主要组成部分,占全市环保投资额度的一半以上。环保设施运行维护费用和生态环境保护投资次之,环境管理投资占比最低。     

Optimal post-warranty maintenance contracts for wind turbines considering availability

ABSTRACT

Outsourcing maintenance is an economical way for wind farm owners to address sophisticated and expensive maintenance operations of wind turbines. This paper proposes three options for the post-warranty maintenance contract of wind turbines from the perspective of service providers. Option 1 involves corrective maintenance only. In option 2, the first preventive maintenance is performed at a certain time point and after that periodic maintenance is carried out. Option 3 initiates with a preventive replacement and performs periodic maintenance subsequently. An availability target is set over the contract period and failing to satisfy the target incurs a penalty from the service provider. The objective is to determine the optimal preventive maintenance programs of option 2 and option 3 that minimize the contract servicing cost. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the proposed policies. The results show that option 2 and option 3 are more effective than option 1 and their effectiveness grows when warranty and contract coverages increase.     

Allocation of River Flows for Restoration of Floodplain Forest Ecosystems: A Review of Approaches and Their Applicability in Europe

Floodplain forests are flood-dependent ecosystems. They rely on well-timed, periodic floods for the provision of regeneration sites and on tapered flood recession curves for the successful establishment of seedlings. These overbank flood events are described as regeneration flows. Once floodplain forest trees are established, in order to grow they also require adequate, although variable, river stage levels or maintenance flows throughout the year. Regeneration flows are often synonymous with flood flows and only occur periodically. There is a disparity between this need for varied interannual flows over the decadal time frame and the usual annual cycle of flow management currently used by most river management agencies. Maintenance flows are often closer to established minimum flows and much easier to provide by current operational practices.A number of environmental flow methodologies, developed in North America, Australia, and South Africa are described in this review. They include the needs of the floodplain environment in the management and allocation of river flows. In North America, these methodologies have been put into practice in a number of river basins specifically to restore floodplain forest ecosystems. In Australia and South Africa, a series of related holistic approaches have been developed that include the needs of floodplain ecosystems as well as in-channel ecosystems. In most European countries, restoration of floodplain forests takes place at a few localized restoration sites, more often as part of a flood-defense scheme and usually not coordinated with flow allocation decisions throughout the river basin. The potential to apply existing environmental flow methodologies to the management of European floodplain forests is discussed.     

LPG充装站紧急切断阀失效模式分析

紧急切断阀作为LPG充装站的重要安全附件之一,当遇到突发情况时,可远程控制紧急切断阀迅速关闭,避免事故的进一步蔓延。若LPG充装站紧急切断阀安装位置不合理,或缺乏定期检验检查与维护保养,均可能导致紧急切断失效。通过对LPG充装站紧急切断阀的工作原理及安装位置,常见失效模式分析及预防,定期检验检查及维护保养注意事项进行详细研究,为LPG充装站对紧急切断阀进行年度检查及维护保养和相关检验单位进行定期检验提供参考。     

Integration of data analytics with cloud services for safer process systems,application examples and implementation challenges

Emerging sensors, computers, network technologies, and connected platforms result potentially in an immeasurable collection of data within plant operations. This creates the possibility of solving problems innovatively. Because most of the data appear to be unstructured or semi-structured, organizations shall design and adopt new strategies. Further, workflow architectures with data analytics are needed including machine learning tools and artificial intelligence techniques before proto-type solutions can be developed. We shall discuss several prospects of using (big) data analytics integrated with cloud services to produce solutions for improving plant operations. The paper outlines the vision and a systematic framework highlighting the data analytics lifecycle in the area of plant operation, process safety, and environmental protection. Four rather diverse example case studies are demonstrated including (1) deep learning-based predictive maintenance monitoring modeling, (2) Natural Language Processing (NLP) for mining text, (3) barrier assessment for dynamic risk mapping (DRA), and (4) correlation development for sustainability indicators. It further discusses the challenges in both research and implementation of proposed solutions in the industry. It is concluded that a well-balanced integrated approach including machine supporting decisions integrated with expert knowledge and available information from various key resources is required to enable more informed policy, strategic, and operational risk decision-making leading to safer, reliable and more efficient operations.