The study aims to identify the potential acute effects of suspended aluminum nitride(Al N)nanoparticles(NPs) on soluble microbial products(SMP) of activated *** activated sludge loaded with 1,10,50,100,150 and 2...
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The study aims to identify the potential acute effects of suspended aluminum nitride(Al N)nanoparticles(NPs) on soluble microbial products(SMP) of activated *** activated sludge loaded with 1,10,50,100,150 and 200 mg/L of Al N NPs were carried out in this *** results showed,Al N NPs had a highly inverse proportionality to bacterial dehydrogenase and OUR,indicating its direct toxicity to the activated sludge *** toxicity of Al N NPs was mainly due to the nano-scale of Al N *** SMP,Al N NPs led to the decrease of polysaccharide and humic compounds,but had slight effects on *** decrease of tryptophan-like substances in SMP indicated the inhibition of Al N NPs on the bacterial ***,Al N NPs reduced obviously the molecular weight of SMP,which might be due to the nano-scale of Al N.
China has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades along with dramatic economic growth. Previous studies have shown that urbanization has both positive and negative effects on health. However, there is a lack ...
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China has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades along with dramatic economic growth. Previous studies have shown that urbanization has both positive and negative effects on health. However, there is a lack of research on the overall effects of urbanization on the epidemic transition of environmental health risks considering various pathways in China. In the present study, we studied the contributions of different aspects of urbanization in China to epidemic transitions using provincial and multi-year (1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010) panel data. Statistical models with fixed and random effects were developed to explore the impacts of different urbanization indicators on the overall epidemic tran- sition of environmental health (general model) and the changes in cause-specific mortality rates of typ- ical diseases (cause-specific models). The results show that the impacts of non-communicable diseases continue to grow during the urbanization process in China. The ratio of communicable disease-related mortality to non-communicable disease-related mortality continues to decrease over time. The general model shows that the improved medical conditions (coefficient =-0.0011, P= 0.037), the improved urban infrastructure (e.g., tap water supply) (coefficient = -0.00065, P 〈 0,001), and the rise in income (coefficient = -0.00027, P = 0.047) during the urbanization process are important factors that promote this overall epidemic transition. The cause-specific models show that the mechanisms behind the general model are complicated. More attention should be paid to non-communicable diseases in urban health management. Specific health policies for different diseases should incorporate the considerations of dif- ferent impact pathwavs of urbanization,
Runoff coefficient is an important parameter for the decision support of urban stormwater management. However, factors like comprehensive land-use type, variable spatial elevation, dynamic rainfall and groundwater ele...
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Runoff coefficient is an important parameter for the decision support of urban stormwater management. However, factors like comprehensive land-use type, variable spatial elevation, dynamic rainfall and groundwater elevation, make the direct estimation of runoff coefficient difficult. This paper presented a novel method to estimate the urban runoff coefficient using the inverse method, where observed time-series catchment outfall flow volume was employed as input for the water balance model and runoff coefficients of different catchments were treated as unknown parameters. A developed constrained minimization objective function was combined to solve the model and minimized error between observed and modeled outfall flow is satisfactory for the presenting of a set of runoff coefficients. Estimated runoff coefficients for the urban catchments in Shanghai downtown area demonstrated that practice of low impact design could play an important role in reducing the urban runoff.
The effects of two different external carbon sources (acetate and ethanol) and electron acceptors (dissolved oxygen, nitrate, and nitrite) were investigated under aerobic and anoxic conditions with non-acclimated ...
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The effects of two different external carbon sources (acetate and ethanol) and electron acceptors (dissolved oxygen, nitrate, and nitrite) were investigated under aerobic and anoxic conditions with non-acclimated process bi- omass from a full-scale biological nutrient removal-activated sludge system. When acetate was added as an external carbon source, phosphate release was observed even in the presence of electron acceptors. The release rates were 1.7, 7.8, and 3.5 mg P/(g MLVSS.h) (MLVSS: mixed liquor volatile suspended solids), respectively, for dissolved oxygen, nitrate, and nitrite. In the case of ethanol, no phosphate release was observed in the presence of electron acceptors. Results of the experiments with nitrite showed that approximately 25 mg NO2-N/L of nitrite inhibited anoxic phosphorus uptake regardless of the concentration of the tested external carbon sources. Furthermore, higher deni- trification rates were obtained with acetate (1.4 and 0.8 mg N/(g MLVSS.h)) compared to ethanol (1.1 and 0.7 mg N/ (g MLVSS.h)) for both anoxic electron acceptors (nitrate and nitrite).
China’s rapid economic growth has caused severe air pollution and public health ***,the Chinese government launched the Action Plan for Air pollution Prevention and control(hereinafter referred to as the“Air Plan”)...
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China’s rapid economic growth has caused severe air pollution and public health ***,the Chinese government launched the Action Plan for Air pollution Prevention and control(hereinafter referred to as the“Air Plan”)in 2013-2017 to improve air quality and safeguard public *** this study,an analytical framework for a cost-benefit analysis applicable to China was constructed,and the costs and benefits of the implementation of the“Air Plan”in 30 cities and provinces in China from 2013 to 2017 were *** show that the total cost of implementation of the“Air Plan”is 1.6511 trillion *** benefits of air quality improvement were determined to be 2.4691 trillion RMB through the willingness-to-pay method to calculate the economic loss of premature *** net benefit related to the implementation of the“Air Plan”was 818 billion *** public health benefit of air quality improvement was 1.5 times the cost of the nationwide implementation of the“Air Plan”.At the provincial level,net benefits that reach 279.3 billion RMB were the highest in Guangdong,whereas the benefit-cost ratio,where the benefit was 5.5 times the cost,was the highest in *** in this study can serve as a reference for China in formulating similar environmental policies and implementing the “3-year Plan to Defend the Blue Sky”.In addition,these estimations have practical significance for advancing the long-term effective mechanisms of the cost-benefit analysis of China5s environmental policies.
The occurrence and risk assessment of polybrominated diphenyl ethers(PBDEs)and organophosphate flame retardants(OPFRs)were evaluated in the key area of Taihu Lake,***(2-chloroisopropyl)phosphate(TCPP),tris(2-chloroeth...
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The occurrence and risk assessment of polybrominated diphenyl ethers(PBDEs)and organophosphate flame retardants(OPFRs)were evaluated in the key area of Taihu Lake,***(2-chloroisopropyl)phosphate(TCPP),tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate(TCEP)and triphenyl phosphate(TPP)were found in water samples with 100%detection frequency,with TCPP presented the highest concentration,ranging from 44-160 ng/*** were detected in all sediment samples from 11 sampling sites with concentrations of 16.7-765 ng/g,while TEHP was the most abundant OPFRs observed in sediment(5.3-6.0 ng/g).Strong positive correlation between PBDEs and OPFRs(p < 0.01)was found,which suggested similar pollutionsources and environmental fates of these two flame *** assessment based on measured concentrations in water and predicted no effective concentrations(PNEC)was carried out for OPFRs,no significant risk to aquatic organism was observed for any of the sampling ***,for their potential persisted and bioaccumulative characteristics,environmental occurrence and long-term risk assessment are needed to be performed.
Suffering from the susceptibility to decomposition, the potential electrochemical application of FeOCl has greatly been hindered. The rational design of the soft-hard material interface can effectively address the cha...
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Suffering from the susceptibility to decomposition, the potential electrochemical application of FeOCl has greatly been hindered. The rational design of the soft-hard material interface can effectively address the challenge of stress concentration and thus decomposition that may occur in the electrodes during charging and discharging. Herein, interlayer structure manipulation of FeOCl/MXene using soft-hard interface design method were conducted for electrochemical dechlorination. FeOCl was encapsulated in Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene nanosheets by electrostatic self-assembly layer by layer to form a soft-hard mechanical hierarchical structure, in which Ti 3 C 2 T x was used as flexible buffer layers to relieve the huge volume change of FeOCl during Cl − intercalation/deintercalation and constructed a conductive network for fast charge transfer. The CDI dechlorination system of FeOCl/Ti 3 C 2 T x delivered outstanding Cl − adsorption capacity (158.47 ± 6.98 mg g −1 ), rate (6.07 ± 0.35 mg g −1 min −1 ), and stability (over 94.49 % in 30 cycles), and achieved considerable energy recovery (21.14 ± 0.25 %). The superior dechlorination performance was proved to originate from the Fe 2+ /Fe 3+ topochemical transformation and the deformation constraint effect of Ti 3 C 2 T x on FeOCl. Our interfacial design strategy enables a hard-to-soft integration capacity, which can serve as a universal technology for solving the traditional problem of electrode volume expansion.
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