Reactive trace element enrichment in a highly modified, tidally inundated acid sulfate soil wetland: East Trinity, Australia

This study examines the abundance of trace elements in surface sediments of a former acid sulfate soil (ASS) wetland subjected to marine tidal inundation. Sediment properties of this highly modified study site are compared with those of an adjacent unmodified, intertidal mangrove forest. Whilst some trace elements (Al, Cd, Mn, Ni and Zn) were clearly depleted due to mobilisation and leaching in the previous oxic-acidic phase, other trace elements (As and Cr) displayed significant enrichment in the tidally inundated ASS. Many trace elements were strongly associated with the reactive Fe and acid volatile sulfide (AVS) fractions, suggesting that trace elements may be adsorbed to abundant reactive Fe phases or sequestered as sulfide minerals. These findings provide an important understanding of the fate and mobility of reactive iron, AVS and trace elements during tidal remediation of a formerly acidified Great Barrier Reef (GBR) catchment.     

A multidimensional streamline-based method to simulate reactive solute transport in heterogeneous porous media

We present a new streamline-based numerical method for simulating reactive solute transport in porous media. The key innovation of the method is that both longitudinal and transverse dispersion are incorporated accurately without numerical dispersion. Dispersion is approximated in a flow-oriented grid using a combination of a one-dimensional finite difference scheme and a meshless approximation. In contrast to previous hybrid alternatives to incorporate dispersion in streamline-based simulations, the proposed scheme does not require a grid and, hence, it does not introduce numerical dispersion. In addition, the proposed scheme eliminates numerical oscillations and negative concentration values even when the dispersion tensor includes the off-diagonal coefficients and the flow field is non-uniform. We demonstrate that for a set of two- and three-dimensional benchmark problems, the new proposed streamline-based formulation compares favorably to two state of the art finite volume and hybrid Eulerian–Lagrangian solvers.     

Statistical Optimization of Anaerobic Biological Processes for Dye Treatment

In the present study both the synthetic media composition as well as some process parameters in the anaerobic decolorization of Reactive Black 5 (RB5) by activated sludge were studied and optimized using statistical design of experiments (DOEs). Statistical analysis of the results of Plackett–Burman DOE showed that the addition of Mn or Fe, or increase in concentration of Mg, had a positive effect on the anaerobic decolorization efficiency whereas the effect of increase in concentration of glucose, ammonium chloride, and calcium chloride was negative. The effect of change in the concentration of glucose, mixed liquor suspended solid (MLSS), and RB5 on the anaerobic decolorization efficiency and rate and chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal was studied using central composite design methodology. Statistical analysis of the data showed that all the factors had significant effect on both the dye decolorization efficiency and rate. The interaction of glucose with MLSS and with dye and the interaction of MLSS with glucose and with dye were significant when the response was decolorization efficiency and rate, respectively. When COD removal was the response, the effect of change in glucose and MLSS concentration and the interaction between these two factors had statistically significant effect on the response.     

山东省韩旺条带状铁矿床地质特征及其成矿地质条件分析

山东省沂源县韩旺铁矿是华北克拉通一大型条带状铁矿床,铁矿层赋存于新太古代泰山岩群雁翎关组上部的变质岩系中。矿体规模较大,断续延伸近8 000m,单矿层厚度一般1～25m。矿体总体呈单斜层状产出,矿石为硅质和铁质相间排列构成的条纹—条带状构造。含矿岩性主要为含磁铁斜长角闪片岩、含磁铁石英角闪片岩及片麻岩类,原岩属于中基性的火山岩和火山沉积岩类。结合近些年来国内外学者在研究前寒武纪BIF铁矿年代学、同位素地球化学与成矿作用方面取得的最新进展,认为韩旺铁矿沉积成矿时代为～2.6Ga,矿床形成于海洋化学沉积环境,成矿物质来源具有明显的火山物质贡献特征,矿床的形成与华北地区太古宙克拉通化形成的稳定沉积环境以及微生物的参与是密不可分的。     

羧甲基纤维素稳定纳米铁去除水中六价铬的研究

零价纳米铁(NZVI)具有较高活性,近年受到人们关注并将其应用于地下水污染原位修复,但在实际应用中NZVI易发生氧化与团聚,容易失活。因此尝试运用环境友好型材料对NZVI进行表面改性,选择羧甲基纤维素(CMC)对纳米铁进行表面包覆获得CNZVI,研究不同CMC含量包覆NZVI的分散稳定性和CNZVI对水中六价铬的去除效果。结果表明：经过改性后的CNZVI分散稳定性要明显优于商用纳米铁RNIP,包覆CMC的比例越高,CNZVI的稳定性越好,在较高的CMC包覆比例下,纳米铁不易失活并具有良好的反应活性,对溶液中六价铬有很好的去除效果。     

Simultaneous determination of iron and manganese in water using artificial neural network catalytic spectrophotometric method

A new analytical method using Back-Propagation (BP) artificial neural network and kinetic spectrophotometry for simultaneous determination of iron and magnesium in tap water, the Yellow River water and seawater is established. By conditional experiments, the optimum analytical conditions and parameters are obtained. Levenberg-Marquart (L-M) algorithm is used for calculation in BP neural network. The topological structure of three-layer BP ANN network architecture is chosen as 15-16-2 (nodes). The initial value of gradient coefficient μ is fixed at 0.001 and the increase factor and reduction factor of μ take the default values of the system. The data are processed by computers with our own programs written in MATLAB 7.0. The relative standard deviation of the calculated results for iron and manganese is 2.30% and 2.67% respectively. The results of standard addition method show that for the tap water, the recoveries of iron and manganese are in the ranges of 98.0%-104.3% and 96.5%-104.5%, and the RSD is in the range of 0.23%-0.98%; for the Yellow River water (Lijin district of Shandong Province), the recoveries of iron and manganese are in the ranges of 96.0%-101.0% and 98.7%-104.2%, and the RSD is in the range of 0.13%-2.52%; for the seawater in Qingdao offshore, the recoveries of iron and manganese are in the ranges of 95.3%-104.8% and 95.3%-104.7%, and the RSD is in the range of 0.14%-2.66%. It is found that 21 common cations and anions do not interfere with the determination of iron and manganese under the optimum experimental conditions. This method exhibits good reproducibility and high accuracy in the determination of iron and manganese and can be used for the simultaneous determination of iron and manganese in tap water and natural water. By using the established ANN- catalytic spectrophotometric method, the iron and manganese concentrations of the surface seawater at 11 sites in Qingdao offshore are determined and the level distribution maps of iron and manganese are drawn.     

山东张宝庄铁矿水文地质特征研究

张宝庄铁矿矿床位于当地侵蚀基准面以下,呈似层状,倾角多在45°以上,埋深20～888m。对矿区3个主要含水层及其之间的水力联系进行分析,这3个含水层分别为第四纪全新世冲洪积孔隙水含水层、基岩风化裂隙水含水层和泰山岩群变质岩构造裂隙水含水层,各含水层之间水力联系较弱。另外还研究了矿床充水因素、预测矿床正常涌水量和最大涌水量,在此基础上划分该矿区水文地质条件为中等类型。