Kinetik der Methanfermentation des Klärschlammes

Zusammenfassung In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Fermentation der organischen Stoffe des Kl?rschlammes vom kinetischen Standpunkt untersucht. Für die Faulgasproduktion ist die T?tigkeit der Methanbakterien entscheidend. Bei der ?batch?-Fermentation des Kl?rschlammes mit Trockensubstanzgehalt von 5% wurde die maximale Wachstumsrate der Methanbakterien für die folgenden Inkubationstemperaturen bestimmt: für 20°C 0,02 Tage⁻¹, für 30°C 0,09 Tage⁻¹, für 50°C 0,17 Tage⁻. Im semikontinuierlichen Prozess wurde der spezifische Wirkungsgrad als Quotient der aus 1 Liter Faulraum produzierten Faulgasmenge (im ml) zum Inhalt der organischen Stoffe im Rohschlamm (in g/l) ausgedrückt. Die Abh?ngigkeit des spezifischen Wirkungsgrades von der Raumbelastung für Temperaturen von 20°C, 30°C und 50°C wurde graphisch dargestellt. Die Verdünnungsrate, bei der die maximalen Werte des spezifischen Wirkungsgrades erreicht wurden, sind für 20°C 0,12 Tage⁻¹, für 30°C 0,21 Tage⁻¹ und für 50°C 0,28 Tage⁻¹. Entsprechende Werte des spezifischen Wirkungsgrades waren der Reihe nach: 20 ml/g pro Tag, 63 ml/g pro Tag und 100 ml/g pro Tag. Die minimale Generatinsdauer der Methanbakterin betr?gt für 20°C 3,1 Tage, für 30°C und 50°C weniger als 2,5 Tage. Aus dem Vergleich des ein- und zwistufigem Betriebs geht hervor, dass bei einer l?nger als 10 Tage w?hrenden Aufenthaltsdauer der spezifische Wirkungsgrad der beiden Systeme identisch ist, bei kürzerer Aufenthaltsdauer leistet jedoch der einstufige Betrieb mehr.

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Summary The purpose of this study is to estimate the fermentation of the organic matter in sewage sludge from the point of view of kinetics. The activity of methane bacteria seems to be essential for the sludge gas production. In the batch fermentation of sludge containing about 5% of dry solids, the maximal growth rate for methane bacteria at given incubation temperatures was found to be: at 20°C 0,02 days⁻¹, at 30°C 0,09 days⁻¹, and at 50 °C 0,17 days⁻¹. For the semi-continous process, the specific efficiency of the fermentation system was expressed as the relation between the quantity (in ml) of sludge gas produced daily in a one liter digestion area and the volatile solids content in raw sludge (in g/l). The dependence of the specific efficiency upon the volume load at temperatures of 20°C, 30°C, and 50°C was determined graphically. The dilution rate for maximal values of the unit efficiency attained was at 20°C 0,12 days⁻¹, at 30°C 0,21 days⁻¹, and at 50°C 0,28 days⁻¹, corresponding maximal values of specific efficiency were 20 ml/g per day, 63 ml/g per day and 100 ml/g per day. Minimal generation time of methane bacteria is at 20°C 3,1 days, at 30°C and at 50°C less than 2,5 days. Comparison betwen single stage and two-stage operations, with detention periods of more than 10 days, shows that the specific efficiency is very much the same in both systems. However, at shorter detention periods and with the same digestion capacity, the single stage operation is more efficient.

     

On the solution of the Molodenskii boundary value problem using successive approximations

Gravimetric methods of determining the figure of the Earth can be divided into two groups. The first employs an auxiliary surface—the geoid. The second employs the so-called quasigeoid as an auxiliary surface. Its main advantage is in that it only uses surface measurements and that it does not require knowledge of the structure of the Earth's crust. This method was treated in [1]. The results display an accuracy of the order of the Earth's flattening. The purpose of this paper is to show that this method can be applied theoretically to reach an arbitrary accuracy.     

The longitudinal distribution of the green corona activity

Two solar cycle observational material (1947–1968) from several corona stations brought to one intensity scale have been used to study the longitudinal distribution of the green corona activity. The active longitudes rotating with a period of 28 days are visualized. There is only very small dependence of the rotational period on the heliographic latitude. This fact recalls the known theory of the underphotospheric rigid body rotation.     

Magnetostratigraphy of Cave Sediments: Application and Limits

The application of the magnetostratigraphy for dating of clastic and chemogenic cave sediments has been limited by the complex conditions underground and the lack of age constraints on these deposits for correlation with geomagnetic polarity timescale (GPTS). Without age constraints any correlation of obtained results cannot be explicit. Additionally, the dynamic character of cave infilling, exhumation and fossilisation expressed by unconformities within preserved sedimentary profiles can hide a substantial part of the geological time. The detailed internal division of deposits (breaks in deposition and related processes) and scarcity of fossils make the correlation of obtained magnetostratigraphic log with geomagnetic polarity timescales sometimes problematic. The analytical results confirmed that the complete step/field procedure offered by demagnetisation methods must be applied. The application of complete analysis only to pilot samples and shortened, selected field/step approach, to other samples did not offer sufficient data set for reliable interpretation.     

Sea-salt optical properties and GCM forcing at solar wavelengths

The single-scattering optical properties of sea-salt solution particles are parameterised as functions of relative humidity for various dry size distributions at solar wavelengths. The accuracy of the parameterisation is typically within 10% as compared to exact Mie calculations. In addition to the optical properties, the growth of the droplet mass ratio and the effective radius of the size distribution are also parameterised in terms of the relative humidity. Two-band models are presented: a four-band model for use in GCMs for climate studies and a 23-band model for use in higher spectral resolution models. The parameterisation is implemented in the Canadian General Circulation Model GCMIII, and an estimate of the first-order globally and yearly averaged solar direct radiative forcing due to sea-salt is estimated to be −0.15 W/m² (cooling). The northern hemisphere forcing is estimated to be −0.11 W/m² and the southern hemisphere is −0.19 W/m². The monthly trends in the forcing for the two hemispheres are presented and discussed. The sensitivity of the forcing to the treatment of the growth of aerosols in the hysteresis region, where aerosol particles are either dry or supersaturated, is investigated along with other sensitivities.     

The Greer Lake leucogranite, Manitoba, and the origin of lepidolite-subtype granitic pegmatites

The Archean Greer Lake leucogranite intruded metabasalts of the Bird River Greenstone Belt in the southwestern part of the Superior Province of southeastern Manitoba. The considerably evolved, multiphase, peraluminous, B-, P-, and S-poor leucogranite (K/Rb 132 to 24) was probably generated by fault-friction-assisted anatexis of dominantly metatonalitic rocks and subsequent differentiation. The leucogranite produced interior, transitional, non-crosscutting pods of barren, beryl-columbite- and lepidolite-subtype pegmatites that solidified from local segregations of highly fractionated residual melt. Steep fractionation gradients characterize the granite-to-pegmatite transition, most conspicuously so in the case of the most evolved, Li, Rb, Cs, Be, Mn, Sn, Nb-Ta, F-rich, lepidolite-subtype pod AC #3 (with K/Rb ≥ 16 and Cs 330 ppmwt in accessory K-feldspar, ≥2.5 and ≤11,200 ppmwt, respectively, in lepidolite, Cs ≤28,000 ppmwt in beryl, and Ta/(Ta+Nb) at. ≤ 0.95 in manganotantalite). The Greer Lake example documents beyond any doubt the igneous derivation of lepidolite-subtype pegmatites from a plutonic parent. Most cases of generally very scarce lepidolite-subtype pegmatites obscure this relationship, as the volatile-rich, highly fluid melts stable to relatively low temperatures commonly migrate to great distances from their plutonic sources.     

Dual-satellite crossover latitude-lumped coefficients, their use in geodesy and oceanography

Latitude-lumped coefficients (LLC) are defined, representing geopotential-orbit variations for dual-satellite crossovers (DSC). Formulae are derived for their standard errors from the covariances of geopotential field models. Numerical examples are presented for pairs of the altimeter-bearing satellites TOPEX/Poseidon, ERS 1, and Geosat, using the error matrices of recent gravity models. The DSC, connecting separate missions, will play an increasingly important role in oceanography spanning decades only when its nonoceanographic signals are thoroughly understood. In general, the content of even the long-term averaged DSC is more complex then their single satellite crossover (SSC) counterpart. The LLC, as the spatial spectra for the geopotential-caused crossover effects, discriminate these source-differences sharply. Thus, the zero-order LLC in DSC data contains zonal gravity information not present in SSC data. In addition, zero- and first-order LLC of DSC data can reveal a geocenter discrepancy between the orbit tracking of the separate satellite missions. For example, DSC analysis from orbits computed with JGM 2 show that the y-axis of the geocenter for Geosat in 1986–1988 is shifted with respect to T/P by 6–9 cm towards the eastern Pacific. Also, where the time-gap is necessarily large (as between, say, Geosat and T/P missions) oceanographic (sea-level) differences in DSC may corrupt the geopotential interpretation of the data. Most importantly, as we illustrate, media delays for the altimeter (from the ionosphere, wet troposphere and sea-state bias) are more likely sources of contamination across two missions than in SSC analyses. Again, the LLC of zero order best shows this contrast. Using the higher-order LLC of DSC for both Geosat-T/P and ERS 1-T/P as likely representation of geopotential-only error, we show by comparison with the predicted standard errors of JGM 2 that the latter's previously calibrated covariance matrix is generally valid. Received: 14 February 1996 / Accepted: 27 March 1997     

Pre-variscan,Variscan and Early Alpine thermo-tectonic history of the north-eastern Bohemian Massif: An 40Ar/39Ar study

The Orlica-Snieznik and Jeseník Mountains correspond to three main domes from west to east: the Snieznik, Keprnfk and Desna domes. They are composed of a basement of autochthonous gneisses, a thick series of blastomylonites and a supposed para-autochthonous or allochthonous metamorphic pre-Devonian to Devonian cover. Their broad direction is NNE-SSW. ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar radiometric measurements allow three main groups of ages to be defined. (1) 300–310 Ma, represented in the Keprník and Desná domes. This age is interpretated following the constraints on the age of the metamorphism, which is linked with the extensional process occurring during the Westphalian. (2) 320–340 Ma, represented mainly in the Snieznik Dome, but not in the Keprnfk Massif. The nappe structure of Orlik-Vysoká hole, in the northern area of the Desna Dome, also exhibits this age, which is interpretated as reflecting the period of the major Variscan Barrowian metamorphism, which accompanied the compressional process. It is only represented in the zones where the extensional process was not strong enough to result in a complete overprinting. (3) 340–440 Ma, corresponding to a very strictly defined area in the eastern rim of the Desná Dome occupied by ultramylonites and mylonites. These ages, obtained on muscovites, result from an incomplete resetting of the minerals developed during the cooling of a granitic protolith and mylonitized during the extensional process. A laser probe analysis confirms the extreme inhomogeneity of the ages of the muscovites and their different resetting from one grain to another. The Late Alpine overprinting is more discrete, but can be deciphered through the low extraction temperatures with ages between 80 and 120 Ma. These ages can be compared with Alpine ages in the close Western Carpathians.