新型气体灭火剂开发技术研究

为了提高哈龙替代灭火剂的灭火性能,减少其对环境的不利影响,必须加快开发新一代气体灭火剂的步伐。提出了理想哈龙替代灭火剂的筛选标准和12种主要性能的分级方法,探讨了筛选过程的设计策略和选择筛选试验方法的基本原则,通过对典型气体灭火剂主要性能的对比,揭示了气体灭火剂的发展历程。剖析了气体灭火剂的灭火浓度、大气寿命、分散性、灭火剂及其分解和燃烧产物的毒性等重要性能的筛选技术发展现状和存在问题。认为应尽快建立并完善气体灭火剂的各项主要性能筛选试验方法,构建完整的气体灭火剂替代品性质数据库,在此基础上形成科学的性能预测体系,以便更好地从大量备选化学物质中找出综合性能优异、适合面广的新一代气体灭火剂系列品种。     

基于RBI的输气站场分离器风险评估方法研究

通过对输气站场常用的风险评估方法与RBI的技术方法进行对比分析,提出采用RBI技术对输气站场的分离器进行风险评估.根据输气站场分离器的失效机理和运行环境,对其失效概率和失效后果进行了定量分析,建立了输气站场分离器RBI风险评估流程.然后通过一个实际案例验证了基于RBI的风险评估方法在输气站场分离器风险评估中的合理性和实用性,并根据评估结果提出了分离器的优化检验策略.本研究为输气站场设备的风险评估提供了一种新的方法.     

基于RBI技术的海上平台延期服役静设备定量化安全评估技术

针对海上延期服役平台静设备的安全风险评估与控制问题,应用RBI风险评估技术的评估理论和方法对海上延期服役平台静设备的定量化安全管理方法进行了实践和探索,并选择某延期服役平台进行风险分析相关结论的工程验证。其具体过程是运用定量RBI技术,首先根据工艺流程和介质特点对海上平台静设备分别进行了物流回路和损伤回路的划分,并以此为基础对延期服役平台静设备的安全风险进行定量评估,进而得出各静设备单元的失效可能性、失效后果及风险等级,最后通过得出的损伤模式、损伤机理及对应的腐蚀速率,从而制定针对性的检测策略。将利用这些检验策略所检测出的真实情况与分析结论进行对比,最终验证了RBI技术在延期服役平台静设备风险评估方面具有很强的适用性。     

The Arkansas Valley “Super Ditch”— An Analysis of Potential Economic Impacts1

McMahon, Tyler G. and Mark Griffin Smith, 2012. The Arkansas Valley “Super Ditch”— An Analysis of Potential Economic Impacts. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 00(0):000‐000. 1‐12. DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12005 Abstract: In Colorado’s Arkansas River basin, urban growth and harsh farming conditions have resulted in water transfers from agricultural to urban uses. Several studies have shown that these transfers have significant secondary economic impacts associated with the removal of irrigated land from production. In response, new methods of sharing water are being developed to allow water transfers that benefit both farm and urban economies, compared with previous permanent transfers that negatively impacted surrounding farm communities. One such project currently under development is the Arkansas Valley “Super Ditch,” which is a rotational crop fallowing plan based on long‐term water leasing designed to provide an annual supply of 25,000 acre‐feet of water (31.6 Mm³). This article analyzes the net benefits of implementing the “Super Ditch” for both the farmers and the surrounding community.     

Harnessing community energy: the keys to climate mitigation policy adoption in US municipalities

Many US municipalities are engaged in climate change mitigation planning or efforts to reduce their communities' greenhouse gas emissions. However, most have adopted very few policies to implement their climate change mitigation goals, and many others are not pursuing climate change mitigation at all. This study examines municipalities' approaches to energy and climate issues and identifies the “keys to success” that influence the extent to which they adopt climate change mitigation policies.

Prior researchers have characterised climate change mitigation efforts as an example of multi-level governance, in which policies are formulated through a variety of networks and interactions between government actors and civil society. I find that municipalities that engage community interests and coordinate with neighbouring jurisdictions in their energy and climate planning processes are far more likely to adopt meaningful policies and conclude that such multi-level governance approaches are actually critical to the success of climate change mitigation planning.     

Cui bono: the Scottish Climate Challenge Fund and community benefits

This study adopted an open-ended exploratory approach to elicit the perspectives of a selection of six Climate Challenge Fund projects. This central idea is that communities' perspective on attempted carbon reduction initiative in their areas has use in other contexts and could enable better design of such interventions in future. The main finding was that emphasising local benefits was conducive to their achieving local involvement in the project. The results of this research should be tested in other contexts. Three broad implications for the design of community carbon reduction initiatives are raised in assuming these outcomes are correct. First, the community hosting such initiatives should be perceived to hold a degree of power over the project. Second, central authorities should not be overly prohibitive about the motivations of those participating in such projects. Finally, the use of non-environmental messaging has value in shifting people to more pro-environmental behaviours.     

氮氧化物防治技术在台湾之应用及管制策略

主要探讨台湾过去二十年来,在治理氮氧化物(NOx)排放方面所作的努力,包括NOx防治技术的引进与开发,以及管制策略的制定.在防治技术的引进与开发方面,主要以在使用化石燃料的发电厂加装SCR(触媒除硝法)设备为主,此外,老的热电厂亦有加装SNCR(选择性非触媒还原法)以及采用再燃烧技术来抑制NOx的排放.进一步探讨了台湾使用的这些NOx防治技术的优缺点以及所获得的经验.在NOx管制策略的制定方面,可分为1995年以前所制定的《空气污染防制法》;1995年以后,基于污染者付费的原则,以及为了鼓励工业及发电厂加装高效率NOx污染防治设备,进一步制定《空气污染防制费收费办法》.此后,台湾固定污染源所排放的NOx已大为改善.     

Long-term strategy for sustainable development: strategies to promote far-sighted action

Given progress in policies for pursuing sustainable development, promoting commitment to thinking and acting more far-sightedly has become the primary strategic challenge. In the face of impatience, selfishness, uncertainty, analytical limitations, and vulnerability, strategies for promoting far-sightedness can be identified by assessing how these obstacles can be overcome. Strategies for creating or rescheduling tangible and deference rewards, realigning performance evaluations, implementing cognitive exercises, framing communications, altering decision-making processes, using self-restraint devices both to resist temptation and to enhance credibility, altering institutions to empower the patient, and stabilizing living conditions are the major categories for identifying and assessing the many strategies which arise out of both ordinary and constitutive policy initiatives.

Determinants of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Compensatory Wetland Mitigation

Development projects that impact wetlands commonly require compensatory mitigation, usually through creation or restoration of wetlands on or off the project site. Over the last decade, federal support has increased for third-party off-site mitigation methods. At the same time, regulators have lowered the minimum impact size that triggers the requirement for compensatory mitigation. Few studies have examined the aggregate impact of individual wetland mitigation projects. No previous study has compared the choice of mitigation method by regulatory agency or development size. We analyze 1058 locally and federally permitted wetland mitigation transactions in the Chicago region between 1993 and 2004. We show that decreasing mitigation thresholds have had striking effects on the methods and spatial distribution of wetland mitigation. In particular, the observed increase in mitigation bank use is driven largely by the needs of the smallest impacts. Conversely, throughout the time period studied, large developments have rarely used mitigation banking, and have been relatively unaffected by changing regulatory focus and banking industry growth. We surmise that small developments lack the scale economies necessary for feasible permittee responsible mitigation. Finally, we compare the rates at which compensation required by both county and federal regulators is performed across major watershed boundaries. We show that local regulations prohibiting cross-county mitigation lead to higher levels of cross- watershed mitigation than federal regulations without cross-county prohibitions. Our data suggest that local control over wetland mitigation may prioritize administrative boundaries over hydrologic function in the matter of selecting compensation sites.     

江苏省"三沿"战略与区域协调发展

江苏省南北经济发展水平客观上存在很大的差距,已经成为制约全省经济协调发展的重要因素。为了加强苏中、苏北地区的发展,缩小省域内部南北发展差距,从区域协调发展的紧迫性及现实意义出发,论述了“三沿”战略的背景及其理论依据,分析了“三沿”战略在江苏省区域发展中的地位与作用,并提出实现江苏省区域协调发展的主要对策与措施。