OPTIMAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THE EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS1

The study of the optimal expansion of existing water resources systems is of continuing importance because of the rising demand and limited supply of water in many areas of the world, particularly in the southwestern part of the United States of America. This study is concerned with the investigation of the optimal expansion of a realistic water resources system to meet an increasing demand for municipal and industrial use, irrigation, energy, and recreation over a planning horizon of T years. A number of possible dam sites are available for the further regulation of river (canal) flows in the basin and/or the regulation of imported waters into the basin. To maximize, over the set of alternative projects, the sum of discounted present value of net earnings subject to the demands and various institutional, physical and budgetary limits, an optimization problem (Problem I) was formed as a 0-1 mixed integer programming problem and was decomposed into the set of all feasible combinations (Problem II). The economic return was determined for each combination (Problem III). Problem II was solved by a branch and bound procedure which selected each feasible combination of dams while the optimal return for each such combination (Problem III) was found by a network analysis code.     

1973~2013年黑龙江省森林碳储量及其动态变化

基于1973~2013年8次省森林清查数据以及实测数据改进的生物量蓄积量转换参数,利用生物量转换因子连续函数法,研究了近40a黑龙江省森林碳储量及其动态变化.结果表明：黑龙江省森林碳储量从1973~1976年的1159.35 TgC下降到2009~2013年的833.99 TgC,其中天然林减少387.51 TgC,人工林增加62.15 TgC;森林总体表现为碳源（-10.88 TgC/a）,主要归因于天然林面积的减少.不同森林类型的碳储量存在较大差异,桦木、落叶松和阔叶混是碳储量的主要贡献者;大多数森林类型的碳密度呈上升趋势.森林以中、幼龄林为主,中龄林碳储量占同期全省总量的27.9%~46.6%,其他龄组的碳储量均呈减少趋势,以成熟林最为明显（201.17 TgC）;幼龄林、中龄林和近熟林的碳密度分别增加2.20、3.21和3.43MgC/hm²,成熟林和过熟林则有所下降;不同龄组森林面积和碳密度的变化是导致其碳储量变化的主要原因.     

Effects of urbanization on heavy metal accumulation in surface soils, Beijing

Urbanization processes affect the accumulation of heavy metals in urban soils. Effects of urbanization on heavy metal accumulation in soils were studied using Beijing as an example. It has been suggested that the ecological function of vegetation covers shifting from natural to agricultural settings and then to urban greenbelts could increase the zinc(Zn) concentrations of soils successively. The Zn concentration of urban soils was significantly correlated to the percentage of the impervious land surface at the500 m × 500 m spatial scale. For urban parks, the age or years since the development accounted for 80% of the variances of cadmium(Cd) and Zn in soils. The population density,however, did not affect the heavy metal distributions in urban soils. To conclude, the urban age turned out to be a notable factor in quantifying heavy metal accumulation in urban soils.     

Northern New England's threatened soft-shell clam populations

Commercial exhaustion of soft-shell clam,Mya arenaria, had become the fate of many potentially productive clamming areas along the coasts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. Investigations of a particularly severe case of soft-shell clam stock depletion in Hampton-Seabrook estuary, New Hampshire, indicated that by 1976 human diggers had removed approximately 87% of the adult clam resource that had existed in 1971. Meanwhile, circumstantial evidence strongly implicated the green crab,Carcinus maenas, as responsible for successive stock recruitment failures, these crabs having consumed most of the young seed clams before they could grow to harvestable size. In 1976, this apparent population imbalance may have been at least partly redressed by a prodigious spatfall, resulting in a massive and widespread reseeding of many flats along the northern New England coast. Spat, or seed clam, densities of up to 1,700 individuals per square foot, over areas of several acres, have been observed. Those clamming areas where aggressive predator control programs had been instituted exhibited the most favorable response in terms of seed clam survival and growth. Evidence also indicated that crowding in thickly seeded portions of the clam flats inhibited shell growth.     

水生腐殖酸分子量分布研究——Ⅱ.腐殖酸凝胶色谱图峰加宽效应校正

研究了串联凝胶色谱系统的峰加宽效应.在该系统中,单分散标样的GPC谱图为低流出体积一侧较宽的不对称形式,以峰流出体积为界,这样的谱图可视作两个半侧正态函效的拼接.峰加宽效应还随淋出体积增大而加强,简单的直线方程可近似地描述分辨因子h随淋出体积的变化规律.在此基础上建立了腐殖酸GPC谱图峰加宽效应的校正方法.并根据实测结果计算了两个水生腐殖酸样品的分子量分布.     

Trends in Vegetation Degradation in Relation to Land Tenure, Rainfall, and Population Changes in Peddie District, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Spatial and temporal variations in vegetation are examined in relation to land tenure, population increase, and rainfall variation in a part of Peddie district, Eastern Cape. Sequential aerial photographs between 1938 and 1988 are analyzed to determine trends in vegetation and population change in three different land-tenure units. The areal extent at each date of four distinct vegetation categories is determined using PC ARC/INFO GIS. Long-term annual rainfall trends for the area are analyzed and juxtaposed with vegetation changes. Extensive ground-truthing exercises are carried out to verify the present condition of vegetation condition in terms of cover and species composition. Differences in land-tenure systems are discerned as the dominant factor controlling variations in vegetation degradation. The study also reveals that neither population changes nor rainfall variations can explain the observed trends in vegetation degradation. Earlier injudicious land-use practices, sustained since the turn of the last century, may provide plausible explanations for the trends and present status of vegetation degradation in the area.     

Non-equilibrium phenomena in carbon dioxide expansion

Release of liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide is a fundamental research topic in CCS. Traditional approach is largely based on HEM and, in general, assumes equilibrium from the outlet to the Mach disc. Experimental results have shown that this approach is not always effective in describing the expansion phenomenon; therefore a significant lack of knowledge exists about CO₂ properties at the under-expanded jet zone boundary, which is a main focus in process safety. Here, solid formation, vapour quality, sonic velocity and final temperature are generally calculated according to equilibrium saturation condition, and this is generally incorrect. This article deals with non-equilibrium thermodynamics of liquid and supercritical CO₂ expansion, illustrating relaxation dynamics through the HRM models, and discussing the very specific singularities of CO₂ phase transitions, vapour to liquid and liquid to solid, that result away from the equilibrium condition, due to the rapid phase changes and to the specific properties of CO₂ multi phase thermodynamics, including nucleation and particle growth. Statistical rate theory has been applied with the aim at identifying the phase transition energy barrier, resulting in a significant entropy increase. A case study based on HEM conservation equations integrated with the statistical rate approach has been presented, which covers the gap of the equilibrium hypothesis. The objective of the article is to provide a more accurate method to predict the properties of carbon dioxide following an expansion.     

电解锰渣库失稳概率分析

以流固耦合的极限平衡法为基础,运用了泰勒级数法,对一铺膜防渗锰渣库在不同堆积高度的可靠度和失稳概率进行了计算分析,并参照美国陆军工程兵团对于岩土边坡的失稳概率评价标准,对锰渣库在运行过程中的边坡失稳风险进行了评估。分析表明:铺膜防渗的电解锰渣坝,当沿用常规不防渗尾矿坝设计时,边坡失稳概率过高,应通过增加导渗体数量、降低边坡坡度、放缓渣库上升速度等设计优化措施,降低锰渣库边坡失稳风险;对于影响渣库边坡稳定的重要参数,如抗剪强度、渗透系数、界面抗剪强度等,有必要通过高质量的取样和审慎的试验获得可靠的试验数据,以降低参数的不确定性,进而增加预期安全水平。     

海洋延寿平台随机冰激响应与损伤评估

直立结构上冰力作用是国际海洋石油工程界研究的一个热点,尽管很多学者建立了各种冰力破碎模型,但是这些理论模型实现对冰与直立结构交互作用过程的量化模拟还存有较多困难.针对胜利油田大量海上平台超期服役现状,选择渤海现场实测的随机冰力时程曲线,考虑腐蚀减薄、桩基冲刷、海生物附着等服役损伤,建立海洋延寿平台结构有限元模型,研究随机冰力作用下海洋延寿平台构件的时程响应,采用疲劳等效应力幅来描述随机冰激疲劳应力过程产生的疲劳效应,最后基于Miner线性累积疲劳损伤模型采用S-N曲线法评估平台构件的疲劳损伤,该方法为进行可适合工程应用的渤海延寿平台疲劳评估提供了思路.     

两种碳源对聚磷菌种群结构及除磷脱氮性能的影响

分别以乙酸钠和丙酸钠作为有机碳源,利用序批式反应器系统对聚磷菌进行富集培养,通过高通量测序技术和化学分析,研究两种碳源对聚磷菌种类及除磷脱氮性能的影响。结果表明：稳定状态下,两者均取得良好的除磷率（＞94%）,丙酸钠对除磷的促进作用优于乙酸钠,丙酸钠对脱氮的促进作用低于乙酸钠;在科和属的水平上,丙酸钠系统的聚磷菌丰度均高于乙酸钠系统。