Predictive modelling of dump water impact on the surroundings of the lignite dump site Jänschwalde (Eastern Germany)

Open cast mining of lignite leads to dumps containing highly mineralised pore waters. To predict the impact of the dump waters on the undisturbed aquifers two steps are necessary. (1) The prediction of dump water quality at times when steady state flow conditions will be established. (2) The simulation of the dump ground water migration with a model that is able to handle the complexity of the homogeneous and heterogeneous interactions of the migration process.For the investigated site Jänschwalde, which is still dewatered, a chemical mass balance was performed. The predicted alkalinity potentials exceed acidity potentials for the dump as a whole. The distribution of these parameters show high alkalinity potentials for the northern part.In order to model the migration process the transport code PCGEOFIM^® [Anwenderdokumentaion, IBGW Leipzig, (in German)] was coupled with the geochemical equilibrium code PHREEQC [USGS, Water-Resources Investigations Report]. This was done to simulate redox reactions, mineral dissolution and precipitation, and cation exchange in the ground water zone. The model is verified by a column flow test. The results of the simulations show a small effect of the migrating dump waters on the quartenary aquifer with respect to acidity changes. This results from calcite buffering and cation exchange. The impact on the quartenary aquifer by sulphate is much higher.     

溶胶-凝胶法制备纳米氧化镁研究

以硝酸镁和硬脂酸为原料,用溶胶—凝胶(Sol-Gel)法制备得到了纳米氧化镁微粒,并用热重(TG)分析、X-射线粉末衍射(XRD)、红外光谱(IR)和透射电镜(TEM)等对该纳米微粒的结构与形貌进行了表征。结果表明,控制Mg(NO3)2和CH3(CH2)16COOH物质的量比为1∶4,在90℃反应20 min并于360℃热处理4 h,得到立方相氧化镁纳米微粒,形貌为椭球体,分散性好,平均粒径约为33 nm。     

特殊形貌MgO材料的研究

科技的发展、进步对材料的要求越来越高,随之而来的是各种特殊功能的复合材料的问世。作为复合材料,增强改性添加剂的特殊形貌MgO材料也获得了长足的发展。系统介绍了晶须MgO、纳米MgO及其他特殊形貌MgO的用途和制备方法。指出盐湖镁资源的综合利用和可持续发展并兼顾环境保护是今后研究开发的方向。     

Availability of Bauxite Reserves

Based upon a large database, this paper analyzes the record of bauxite mine production, exploration success, and resource depletion and evaluates the availability of bauxite reserves in the near future. The record clearly shows that for the past 50 years world bauxite production rose by an annual increase of over 5% while per capita consumption rose during the same period by about 4%. Time trends of the world bauxite reserve life index (RLI); that is, known world reserves of a given year divided by world production of the same year, are episodic and seem to follow bauxite price cycles. The present-day RLI indicates adequate bauxite supply for about 180 years and is the same as it was in 1950. However, if an annual growth rate of 5% is considered, the currently known reserves will be exhausted within the next 20 years and the reserve base will be adequate for not more than 25 years. This scenario is based, of course, on the unrealistic assumption that future exploration efforts fail to discover additional reserves. Evaluation of the quality, in terms of bauxite signatures, and quantity of presently known bauxite prospects that may be mined in future suggests that there is sufficient potential for adequate bauxite supply for the next 20 to 25 years at least. Bauxite signatures cover a wide range of values that allows selection of the most favorable bauxite prospects for future mining, both in economic as well as environmental terms. Although, there is the general believe that the world abundance of bauxite resources will ensure sufficient supply to meet future demands significant additional reserves have to be discovered if exponential growth rates continue. As the question of future bauxite supply is subject to economic and geologic principles one has to take into consideration that increasing exploration maturity in many mineral provinces will make it difficult to locate additional bauxite reserves and that decreasing real commodity prices will influence the level of investment in bauxite exploration.     

An Examination of the Oxidation of Elemental Mercury in the Presence of Halide Surfaces

Recent field investigations in polar regions, and over the ocean, have suggested that elemental mercury (Hg⁰) can be photochemically oxidized in the presence of reactive halogen species that are formed in the presence of salt particles, typically through a reactive catalytic cycle involving ozone destruction. Furthermore, these studies have suggested that the Hg⁰ oxidation reaction involves the reaction with reactive bromine species such as Br, BrO, and Br₂. To investigate these reactions in more detail, we performed experiments using a quartz reactive chamber so that the oxidation of Hg⁰, and the formation of ionic Hg products, could be examined in detail under different reaction scenarios, but at realistic levels of Hg. To examine if the reactions were enhanced by the presence of deliquescent salt surfaces, as has been postulated to be the case for the formation of reactive halogens, one surface of the cell was coated with either NaCl or NaBr for some experiments. In addition to laboratory experiments with a Xenon lamp, outdoor experiments under natural light were also conducted. The results of these studies showed that oxidation of Hg⁰ did not occur in the dark, except in the presence of a deliquescent NaBr salt surface. The rate of oxidation was slow in the absence of salt surfaces, and in the absence of low wavelength light (<324 nm). In the presence of NaCl surfaces, oxidation rates were at least two orders of magnitude faster, but the rate was further increased in the presence of NaBr, by a further factor of 25. With outdoor light, while the rates of oxidation were lower, the results were similar overall. The results are discussed in terms of the reactions occurring and the mechanisms of Hg⁰ oxidation. Finally, the implications of these reactions to the overall global Hg cycle are discussed.     

新疆康古尔塔格金矿成矿反应体系及动力学分析

对康古尔塔格剪切带型金矿成矿体系地质地球化学特征研究后认为：①康古尔塔格金矿形成于脆韧性剪切变形和脆性变形阶段;②热液成矿反应体系包括成矿反应、控制反应及缓冲控制反应３类;③容矿构造活动方式有脆韧性缓冲转换作用、脆性破裂作用两种,前者构造环境有利于形成蚀变岩型矿化,后者则有利于形成石英脉状矿化;④成矿反应热力学性质和反应进行的程度——矿石品位受所处的地质环境和构造动力学条件的制约。     

Reach-Scale Cation Exchange Controls on Major Ion Chemistry of an Antarctic Glacial Meltwater Stream

McMurdo dry valleys of Antarctica represent the largest of the ice-free areas on the Antarctic continent, containing glaciers, meltwater streams, and closed basin lakes. Previous geochemical studies of dry valley streams and lakes have addressed chemical weathering reactions of hyporheic substrate and geochemical evolution of dry valley surface waters. We examine cation transport and exchange reactions during a stream tracer experiment in a dry valley glacial meltwater stream. The injection solution was composed of dissolved Li⁺, Na⁺, K⁺, and Cl^-. Chloride behaved conservatively in this stream, but Li⁺, Na⁺, and K⁺ were reactive to varying degrees. Mass balance analysis indicates that relative to Cl^-, Li⁺ and K⁺ were taken up in downstream transport and Na⁺ was released. Simulations of conservative and reactive (first-order uptake or generation) solute transport were made with the OTIS (one-dimensional solute transport with inflow and storage) model. Among the four experimental reaches of Green Creek, solute transport simulations reveal that Li⁺ was removed from stream water in all four reaches, K⁺ was released in two reaches, taken up in one reach, and Na⁺ was released in all four reaches. Hyporheic sediments appear to be variable with uptake of Li⁺ in two reaches, uptake of K⁺ in one reach, release of K⁺ in two reaches, and uptake of Na⁺ in one reach. Mass balances of the conservative and reactive simulations show that from 1.05 to 2.19 moles of Li⁺ was adsorbed per reach, but less than 0.3 moles of K⁺ and less than 0.9 moles of Na⁺ were released per reach. This suggests that either (1) exchange of another ion which was not analyzed in this experiment or (2) that both ion exchange and sorption control inorganic solute transport. The elevated cation concentrations introduced during the experiment are typical of initial flows in each flow season, which flush accumulated dry salts from the streambed. We propose that the bed sediments (which compose the hyporheic zone) modulate the flushing of these salts during initial flows each season, due to ion exchange and sorption reactions.     

草源型可溶性有机物降解过程中活性氧物种产生过程

活性氧物种(ROS)参与天然水体系统中的光化学反应、氧化还原反应,是影响水体中有机污染物的迁移、转化、环境归宿及生态效应的重要因素.然而目前对草源型可溶性有机物(DOM)分解过程中ROS的产生过程并不清楚.本文通过室内模拟实验首先构建了室内测定3种ROS(~3CDOM~*、~1O_2、·OH)的方法,进而分析草源植物——苔草(Carex tristachya)残体浸出液中DOM光降解过程中ROS的产生过程.结果表明:ROS累积含量的产生随着DOM的降解逐渐升高在3种自由基含量中,~3CDOM*的产生含量最多,·OH产生含量低于另外2种ROS两个数量级.CDOM含量与~3CDOM~*、~1O2、·OH浓度呈现正相关关系,尤其与~3CDOM~*和~1O_2浓度的显著性水平最高,·OH次之.ROS浓度与水质指标呈现出不同的线性相关关系,与硝态氮浓度呈负相关关系,而与亚硝态氮浓度呈现正相关关系,并且亚硝态氮对ROS浓度影响效果极显著.同时类蛋白荧光峰值强度的衰减与ROS累积含量呈现极显著负相关关系,脱明在DOM的光降解过程中蛋白质小分子的降解是产生ROS很重要的一个部分.综上通过对草源型DOM光降解过程中ROS产生过程的研究,增加了对湖泊生态系统中水生植物产生ROS的过程、迁移、转化、归宿及其作用机制的认识.     

大菱鲆卵子排放后在卵巢腔内老化特征初探

为了探明大菱鲆(Scophthalmus maximus)卵子在卵巢腔内老化的原因及特征,采用连续跟踪采卵的方式,通过荧光染色、生理生化指标测定,对不同采卵时间(0, 3, 6, 9, 12 h)的卵子活性氧和脂质过氧化情况(氧化产物丙二醛MDA)、抗氧化系统(超氧化物歧化酶SOD,还原型谷胱甘肽GSH)、卵巢液pH值及受精率和孵化率进行对比研究。结果表明,随着卵子在体内老化时间的延长,其活性氧含量及脂质过氧化程度逐渐升高,活性氧含量及过氧化程度与排卵后卵子老化呈正相关;SOD酶活力,GSH酶活力均显著下降,MDA含量显著提高;受精率和孵化率均显著下降。排卵后6h,孵化率降到2.87%～10.60%,此时的卵质已经极度恶化,不能再继续用于后续的生产中。综上,在卵巢腔中,卵子排放后,随着时间的延长,活性氧含量显著升高,抗氧化能力逐渐下降,受精率和孵化率显著降低,老化逐渐加剧。