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Circular Economy 2023年第4期2卷

作者： Amirudin, Akhmad Inoue, Chihiro Grause, Guido International Environmental Leadership Program Environmental Studies for Advance Society Department Graduate School of Environmental Studies Tohoku University Aramaki Aza Aoba 6-6-20 Aoba-ku Sendai980-8579 Japan Department of Public Administration Faculty of Administrative Science Brawijaya University Malang65145 Indonesia School of Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham Edgbaston BirminghamB15 2TT United Kingdom

The collection rate is a difficult and important issue in the management of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle waste, as it is related to the behavior of the community to participate and comply with the system established by the government. One system that has been shown to increase the collection rate of PET bottle waste is the deposit–refund scheme (DRS). We tested residents’ intention to participate in the DRS using the theory of planned behavior and complemented it with several important variables that could influence the model. The method used is partial least square-structural equation modeling. The result of the study is that all the variables studied were positively influenced according to their respective paths. Nevertheless, environmental awareness is the latent variable with the strongest positive effect on attitude, and attitude has the strongest positive effect on intention. Public information is the latent variable that positively influences all variables related to intention. The proposed model can be applied globally to identify factors that influence recycling participation, particularly for DRS, and help achieve sustainable development goals while initiating a circular economy by recycling plastic bottle waste. © 2023 The Author(s)

关键词： Developing countries

Rainfall Frequency Analysis Using Event-Maximum Rainfalls – an Event-Based Mixture Distribution Modeling Approach

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SSRN 2023年

作者： Cheng, Ke-Sheng Chen, Bo-Yu Lin, Teng-Wei Nakamura, Kimihito Ruangrasamee, Piyatida Chikamori, Hidetaka Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan Master Program in Statistics National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan Graduate School of Agriculture Kyoto University Kyoto Japan Department of Water Resources Engineering Faculty of Engineering Chulalongkorn University Bangkok Thailand Department of Environmental Management Engineering Okayama University Okayama Japan

Rainfall frequency analysis, an essential work for water resources management, is often conducted by using the annual maximum rainfall series. For rainfall stations with short record lengths and outliers presence, the use of annual maximum series for rainfall frequency analysis may yield design rainfall estimates of higher uncertainties. Moreover, for regions with cyclostationary climate patterns, the annual maximum rainfalls may be caused by different prevalent storm types, which differ in terms of their occurrence frequency and storm rainfall characteristics. In this study, we propose an event-maximum-rainfall-based mixture distribution modeling approach for rainfall frequency analysis. By considering the event-maximum rainfalls of individual storm events, the sample size for parameter estimation increases, and the uncertainty of design rainfall estimates reduces. Mixture distribution modeling enables a thorough investigation of the contributing probabilities of different storm types to the annual maximum rainfall. Through rigorous stochastic simulation, we demonstrated the superiority of the proposed approach over the conventional annual-maximum-rainfall approach. The proposed approach was applied to four representative rainfall stations in Taiwan, and the results revealed that the proposed approach is more robust than the conventional annual-maximum-rainfall approach. The results provide insights into the contributions of individual storm types to the annual maximum rainfall. © 2023, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Poisson distribution

Polyolefin-derived substrate-grown carbon nanotubes as binder-free electrode for hydrogen evolution in alkaline media

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Chemosphere 2024年 349卷 140769页

作者： Wu, XinYi Tu, Wei Han Veksha, Andrei Chen, Wenqian Lisak, Grzegorz Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute Nanyang Technological University 1 Cleantech Loop Clean Tech One 637141 Singapore School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue 639798 Singapore Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Nanyang Technological University 1 Cleantech Loop Cleantech One Singapore 637141 Singapore

Switching from a linear mode of waste management to a circular loop by transforming plastic waste into carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is a promising approach to current plastic waste treatment. One of the many applications of CNTs is its use for electrocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen evolution. Existing methods of CNTs-based hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrode fabrication involve additives like polymeric binders and additional steps to improve CNT dispersion, which are detrimental to the CNT structure and properties. The in-situ fabrication approach can potentially be a one-pot solution to HER electrode synthesis. In this study, polyolefins pyrolysis gas and a Co:Ni:Mg catalyst were used to fabricate binder-free CNTs-based electrodes on different substrates for HER. The study assessed CNT quality on conductive carbon paper, semiconductive silicon, and dielectric glass substrates, evaluating their HER performance in 1 M KOH. A mixture of hollow-core, bamboo-like, and cup-stacked arrangement nanotubes were synthesized on the substrates, with CNTs on glass and carbon paper substrates possessing better graphitization than CNTs grown on silicon. This is in agreement with HER performance, whereby the as-prepared electrodes required overpotentials of 267 mV, 241 mV, and 216 mV for silicon, glass, and carbon paper, respectively, to achieve 10 mA/cm2. Despite being poorly conductive, the glass substrate electrode achieved a lower overpotential than the silicon electrode. Additionally, the as-prepared silicon electrode faced a delamination issue likely attributed to the lower surface energy of the silicon substrate surface, demonstrating the weaker adhesion between the CNTs and silicon surface. The proposed approach thus showed that the in-situ fabricated electrodes performed better than separately synthesized CNTs prepared into electrodes by 27.4% and 14.2% for carbon paper and glass substrates, respectively. The improved performance of the as-prepared, binder-free e

关键词： Carbon nanotubes

Harnessing High-Level Hydrogen Sulfide Stress for Enhanced Biogas Utilization: Adaptive Resilience of a Mixed-Culture System

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SSRN 2024年

作者： Zhou, Yan Zhang, Baorui Liu, Jianbo Cai, Chen Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Nanyang Technological University 61 Nanyang Drive 637335 Singapore Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute Nanyang Technological University 1 Cleantech Loop Singapore637141 Singapore CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion Department of Environmental Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue Singapore639798 Singapore

Biogas, a heterogeneous mixture predominantly composed of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2), serves as a substrate for diverse microorganisms, including methanotrophs and microalgae, facilitating carbon sequestration, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and generating biomass for multifarious applications. However, the presence of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a common contaminant in biogas, can exert toxic effects on these microorganisms, potentially inhibiting their growth and metabolic processes. This study investigated the effects of H2S on a mixed-culture system utilizing a long-term continuous flow photobioreactor. The results demonstrated that the mixed-culture system could tolerate H2S concentration up to 1000 ppm without significant performance deterioration. Notably, when the mixed-culture system was exposed to a higher H2S concentration (5000 ppm) for an extended period of one month, the CH4 and CO2 utilization rates increased threefold. Furthermore, the primary byproduct, protein, constituted over 50% of the cell dry weight. Comprehensive analysis of the microbial community composition and metabolic pathways revealed adaptive shifts in response to H2S stress. In-depth analysis of functional genes indicated that the system possessed the capacity to adapt and maintain its functionality even under severe H2S stress. This study provides valuable insights into microbial and metabolic mechanisms underlying H2S resistance in a mixed culture, providing an opportunity for the establishment of an H2S-resistant biosystem for practical biogas transformation. © 2024, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Hydrogen sulfide

Effects of nanopores and sulfur doping on hierarchically bunched carbon fibers to protect lithium metal anode

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Carbon Energy 2021年第5期3卷 784-794页

作者： Ji In Jung Sunwoo Park Son Ha Se Youn Cho Hyoung-Joon Jin Young Soo Yun Program in Environmental and Polymer Engineering Inha UniversityIncheonSouth Korea KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology Korea UniversitySeoulSouth Korea Carbon Composite Materials Research Center Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyWanju-gunJeollabuk-doSouth Korea Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Inha UniversityIncheonSouth Korea Department of Integrative Energy Engineering Korea UniversitySeoulSouth Korea

Studies on three-dimensional structured carbon templates have focused on how to guide homogeneous lithium metal nucleation and growth for lithium metal anodes(LMAs).However,there is still insufficient evidence for a key factor to achieve their high electrochemical ***,the effects of nanopores and sulfur doping on carbon-based nanoporous host(CNH)electrode materials for LMAs were investigated using natural polymer-derived *** pore-filling behaviors of lithium metal in the nanopores of the CNH electrode materials were first observed by ex situ scanning electron microscopy analysis,where the protective lithium metal nucleation and growth process led to significantly high Coulombic efficiency(CE)of~99.4%and stable 600 *** addition,a comparison study of CNH and sulfurdoped CNH(S-CNH)electrodes,which differ only in the presence or absence of sulfur,revealed that sulfur doping can cause lower electrochemical series resistance,higher CE value,and better cycling stability in a wide range of current densities and number of ***,S-CNH-based LMAs showed high electrochemical performance in full-cell Li-S battery tests using a sulfur copolymer cathode,where a high energy density of 1370Wh kgelectrode−1 and an excellent power density of 4120Wkgelectrode−1 were obtained.

关键词： carbon template Li-S batteries lithium metal anode lithium metal batteries nanoporous carbon sulfur doping

Influence of conformational change of chain unit on the intrinsic negative thermal expansion of polymers

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Chinese Chemical Letters 2021年第4期32卷 1515-1518页

作者： Qiangsheng Sun Ke Jin Yuhui Huang Jia Guo Thanyada Rungrotmongkol Phornphimon Maitarad Changchun Wang State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers and Department of Macromolecular Science Fudan UniversityShanghai 200433.China Biocatalyst and Environmental Biotechnology Research Unit Department of BiochemistryFaculty of Science and Program in Bioinformatics and Computational BiologyGraduate SchoolChulalongkom UniversityBangkok 10330Thailand Research Center of Nano Science and Technology Shanghai UniversityShanghai 200444China

Negative thermal expansion(NTE) behavior has roused wide interest for the control of thermomechanical properties of functional *** NTE behaviors have been found in kinds of compounds,it remains challenging for polymers to achieve intrinsic NTE *** this work,we systematically studied the conformational change of dibenzocyclooctadiene(DBCOD) derivatives between chair(C) and twist-boat(TB) forms based on density-functional theo ry(DFT) calculations,and found clear evidence of the relationship between the structure of DBCOD units and the thermal contraction behavior of the related *** order to obtain the polymer with NTE property,two conditions should be met for the thermal contracting DBCOD related units as follows:(i) the TB conformation can turn into C conformation as the temperature increases,and(ii) the volume of C conformation is smaller than that of TB *** rule should offer a guidance to exploration of the new intrinsic NTE polymers in the future.

关键词： Negative thermal expansion Conformational change Polyarylamides Density-functional theory Dibenzocyclooctadiene

D-SRGAN: DEM Super-Resolution with Generative Adversarial Networks

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SN Computer Science 2021年第1期2卷 48页

作者： Demiray, Bekir Z. Sit, Muhammed Demir, Ibrahim Department of Computer Science University of Iowa Iowa City United States Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics University of Iowa Iowa City United States Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Iowa Iowa City United States Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Iowa Iowa City United States

Digital elevation model (DEM) is a critical data source for variety of applications such as road extraction, hydrological modeling, flood mapping, and many geospatial studies. The usage of high-resolution DEMs as inputs in many application areas improves the overall reliability and accuracy of the raw dataset. The goal of this study is to develop a machine learning model that increases the spatial resolution of DEM without additional information. In this paper, a GAN based model (D-SRGAN), inspired by single image super-resolution methods, is developed and evaluated to increase the resolution of DEMs. The experiment results show that D-SRGAN produces promising results while constructing 3 feet high-resolution DEMs from 50 feet low-resolution DEMs. It outperforms common statistical interpolation methods and neural network *** study shows that it is possible to use the power of artificial neural networks to increase the resolution of the DEMs. The study also demonstrates that approaches from single image super-resolution can be applied for DEM super-resolution. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. part of Springer Nature.

关键词： Deep learning DEM DEM reconstruction Generative adversarial networks (GANs) Super-resolution

Investigation of Cyanobacteria-Hosted Antibiotic Resistance in Drinking Water Sources from a Public Health Perspective

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SSRN 2024年

作者： Volk, Abigail Mills, Molly Chae, Soryong Lee, Jiyoung Division of Environmental Health Sciences College of Public Health The Ohio State University ColumbusOH United States Environmental Sciences Graduate Program The Ohio State University ColumbusOH United States Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Cincinnati CincinnatiOH United States Department of Food Science & Technology The Ohio State University ColumbusOH United States Infectious Diseases Institute The Ohio State University ColumbusOH United States

Cyanobacterial blooms are intensifying worldwide due to eutrophication and climate change. While traditionally, the focus has been on cyanotoxins, recent studies suggest a potential link between cyanobacteria and antibiotic resistance (AR), including hosting AR genes (ARGs) or promoting gene transfer. However, the role of cyanobacteria as ARG hosts and their contribution to environmental AR in drinking water sources remains largely unexplored. In this study, we examined cyanobacteria as ARG hosts within the broader microbiome context. Samples of drinking water sources were collected from Lake Erie and Grand Lake St. Marys (GLSM) between May and October 2022, both sites afflicted historically by blooms. Cyanobacterial genes and ARGs were quantified with DropletDigital™ PCR (ddPCR), while microcystin concentrations were quantified with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Shotgun metagenomic sequencing was employed to analyze the microbiome, with ARGs annotated using DeepARG and Resistance Gene Identifier. Although the alpha diversity and composition of the microbial communities were similar at both locations, the ddPCR and sequencing revealed elevated levels of Microcystis in Lake Erie and Planktothrix in GLSM. The ELISA results showed high microcystin concentrations in GLSM. Cyanobacteria were identified as potential hosts for ARGs, including genes such as rpoB2 and arlR. However, upon further examination, these genes are likely annotated on housekeeping genes and are considered false positives spurious hits. In addition, qac and OXA genes were also annotated, consistent with previous findings on NCBI BLAST in Cyanobacteria. Although cyanobacteria do not appear to be significant contributors to the resistome in these contexts, they may confer some antibiotic resistance. This study underscores the importance of continued monitoring of cyanobacteria within the broader microbiome and resistome, especially in drinking water sources with high contamination levels.

关键词： Lakes

Rheology and 3d Printing of Alginate Bio-Stabilized Earth Concrete

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SSRN 2023年

作者： Maierdan, Yierfan Armistead, Samuel J. Mikofsky, Rebecca A. Huang, Qiqi Ben-Alon, Lola Srubar, Wil V. Kawashima, Shiho Columbia University Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics New YorkNY10027 United States Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation New YorkNY10027 United States University of Colorado Boulder Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering United States University of Colorado Boulder Materials Science and Engineering Program United States

Driven by the need for sustainable construction solutions, there is renewed interest in earth-based materials. Biopolymer stabilizers can enhance the rheological and structural properties of these materials to facilitate their use in 3D printing. This research examined the influence of sodium alginate on the stability, particle interaction, rheology, and 3D printability of kaolinite, a commonly found clay mineral in soils deemed suitable for construction. Findings revealed that sodium alginate could boost electrostatic interactions to enhance the stability of kaolinite suspensions. This rise in repulsive potential energy also reduced storage modulus and yield stress by orders of magnitude. However, as the alginate content increased beyond its cross-linking concentration (0.12% - 0.6%), a reverse trend was observed, which was attributed to the formation of a three-dimensional polymer network. Furthermore, alginate addition shifted the "printability window" of kaolinite suspensions to mixtures with higher solid contents, which has positive implications on strength and shrinkage. © 2023, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Biomolecules

Waste Valorization from Brazilian Nepheline Syenite Processing as a Strategic Approach to Advancing the Circular Economy

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SSRN 2023年

作者： Santos, Diego Haltiery Rosa, Laura Pereira Alves, Cleidson Rosa Simão, Lisandro Arcaro, Sabrina Klegues Montedo, Oscar Rubem Raupp-Pereira, Fabiano Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering University of the Extreme South of Santa Catarina Criciúma88806-000 Brazil Department of Civil Engineering Federal Institute of Santa Catarina Criciúma88813-600 Brazil Research Group on Sustainability and Waste Management Postgraduate Program in Environmental Technology University of Ribeirão Preto Ribeirão Preto14096-900 Brazil Brazil

The growing disparity between the high extraction of natural resources and low use of waste as alternative mineral resources will aggravate the scarcity of natural reserves. Therefore, the current linear economy model must be converted to sustainable economic models, such as the circular economy. To achieve this transition, it is important that waste recovery strategies are implemented with a continuous search for solutions for these materials. Thus, this study investigates the waste from the processing of nepheline syenite stone, to promote its valorization as an alternative mineral resource. The classification, potentiality, quantity/viability and applicability (CPQvA) criteria are used as tools to aid decision-making for the waste valorization. The environmental, physical, chemical, morphological, and durability characteristics of nepheline syenite waste (NSW) are analyzed. The results showed evidence for the substitution of NSW for up to 100% of fine aggregates and 25% of Portland cement in civil construction. Furthermore, NSW yields recoveries of more than 90% of potassium for use in agriculture, and up to 70% of iron ore for use in steelworks. Therefore, the results indicate that NSW is viable for different applications, contributing to industrial symbiosis and a strategy for advancing the circular economy. © 2023, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Sustainable development