Numerical simulation of pollutant diffusion and decay process after a water pollution incident in the Three Gorges Reservoir

We established a hydrodynamic model to simulate the pollutant transport and decay process in the case of a pollution incident in the sections of the Yangtze and the Jialing passing through the city area of Chongqing. The Boussinesq assumptions and the Navier-Stokes equations of incompressible fluid were applied to setting up the pollutant diffusion equations and the equations for the decay process. E. colt was taken as the example pollutant, and chloride dosage, light, temperature and ultraviolet intensity were considered in the equations for bacterial decay process. The calculated values of the fluid velocities in the two rivers agree well with corresponding measured results, indicating an ideal accuracy of the model. In simulation, the concentration of E. colt in water was assumed to be zero before the accident. The and 1.75 m/s for the Yangtze flow, and the downriver boundary was upriver boundary velocity was -1.35 m/s for the Jialing flow water depth set at 0. Simulation results show that the bacteria are transported downstream along the riverbank. A long and narrow pollutant belt develops at 12 h after the start of the accident ascribed to the quick longitudinal transfer. After the pollution sources are cut off, the pollutant concentration decreases slowly, mostly by advection and diffusion, suggesting inadequate self-purification ability of the rivers and the necessity of effective decontaminating measures in the case of a pollution incident, The model can be a useful tool for understanding the polluting situations of an improper discharge incident and evaluating the effects of decontaminating measures for the water body of the Three Gorges Reservoir.

Experiments and numerical simulations on transport of dissolved pollutants around spur dike

The flow field around a spur dike has three-dimensional characteristics. In order to analyze the influence of the flow field on pollutant transport, based on a compressive volume of fluid （VOF） scheme, the three-dimensional transient compressive pollutant transport model （CPTM） and the cubic equation （CE） bounded differencing scheme were developed. For the calibration and validation of CPTM, laboratory experiments were carried out in a flume with a non-submerged spur dike. The spur dike was angled at 60°, 90°, and 120° from the upstream direction. The simulation results agreed with the experimental results. The simulations and experiments showed that the distribution of pollutant concentration was determined by circumfluence and the main flow. Concentration decay in the circumfluenee zone was slower than that in the main flow. Downstream of the spur dike, the concentration fluctuation became intensive with the increase of spur dike angle.

Preliminary Experimental Study on Effectiveness of Vegetative Filter Strip to Pollutants in Surface Runoff

Vegetative filter strip (VFS) is a main kind of Best Management Practices for the control of non-point source pollution. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of VFS in Chinese northwest regions. Three VFSs with natural grass and Hippophae rhamnoides/grass patterns have been constructed in the bank slope of Xiaohuashan reservoir, Huaxian County, Shannxi Province. The removal effects of VFS and influencing factors have been analyzed based on field experiment data. The result reveals a positive effect on reducing the transportation of suspended solids, phosphorus and nitrogen in surface runoff, and it is more efficient on suspended solids removal. The experiment also shows that most of the suspended particles and pollutants bound to them were entrapped in the first 10 m of VFS. The main factors influencing effectiveness of VFS include vegetation patterns and inflow rate. In addition, inflow pollutant concentration has a larger impact on reducing total nitrogen and total phosphorus by VFS, but the reduction effect on SS has no significant difference.

Numerical and Experimental Studies on Flow and Pollutant Dispersion in Urban Street Canyons

In this study numerical simulations and water tank experiments were used to investigate the flow and pollutant dispersion in an urban street canyon. Two types of canyon geometry were tested. The studies indicate that in a step-up notch canyon （higher buildings on the downstream side of the canyon）, the height and shape of the upstream lower buildings plays an important role in flow pattern and pollutant dispersion, while in a step-down notch canyon （lower buildings on the downstream side）, the downstream lower buildings have little influence. The studies also show that the substitution of tall towers for parailelepiped buildings on one side of the canyon may enhance the street ventilation and decrease the pollutant concentration emitted by motor vehicles.

EXPERIMENTS ON SELF-PURIFICATION OF HEAVY METALPOLLUTANTS IN NATURAL RIVERS

This paper is concerned with the experiments of simulating self-purification of heavy metal pollutants in natural rivers, such as tributaries polluted by heavy metal polutants joining a main stream, or an uncontaminated tributary with much sediment entering a main stream polluted by heavy metal pollutants, and the experiments on the effect of sediment movement on the adsorption of heavy metal pollutants. Further-more, the effect of turbulence, sediment supply conditions and sediment motion patterns on the adsorption of heavy metal pollutants are studied in a device, in which turbulence is generated by a harmonically vibrating set of grids. The results indicate that sediment motion pattern has no effect on the characteristic parameters in the adsorption isotherm, such as the saturated adsorption content by unit weight of seidment and the constant of adsorption-desorption rate in the Langmuir adsorption isotherm, but it has significant effect on the coefficient of adsorption rate (or the coefficient of desorption rate). When the turbulent intensity of flow is low and all sediment exists as bottom mud, the coefficient of adsorption rate of sediment (or the coefficient of desorption rate of sediment) is very small, thus descending rate of concentration of dissolved heavy metal pollutant concentration is small, and when the turbulent intensity of flow is high, sediment supply condition, that is, whether sediment exists on the bed or not, influences greatly the variation of dissolved heavy metal pollutant concentration. When the sediment on the bed could be lifted up, descending rate of dissolved heavy metal pollutant concentration is large. In other wards, the coefficient of adsorption rate (or the coefficient of desorption rate) by unit weight of suspended sediment is much larger than that by unit weight of bottom mud.

Sedimentation of short cylindrical pollutants with mechanical contacts

Lattice Boltzmann method and elastic particle collision model were used to investigate the sedimentation of short cylindrical pollutant particles with mechanical contacts for varying bulk number density ε and terminal Reynolds number ReT. The corresponding experiments were performed as a comparison. The clusters of pollutant particles with an inverted “T” structure were observed, the pollutant particles for high ε and large ReT scattered wider than that for low ε and small ReT. The sedimentation velocities increased suddenly at the initial stage, then decreased drastically, after that swayed around and approached to a steady value. The time to steady state did not depend on ε and ReT. The effect of particle interactions was to hinder the average sedimentation velocity, and hindrance was directly proportional to ε. The orientation distributions of pollutant particles depended on ReT and ε, especially on the former. Both the standard deviations of vertical and horizontal velocity, the former was larger than the latter, were nearly independent on ε and ReT.

Extraction of the Structure Functions in τ→3πv Decay Using Li Model

The structure functions in theτ→3πv decay are extracted using the model proposed by Li.The predictions of Li model are compared with KS ones and the data from OPAL experiment.It is found that predictions by the model forωA(Q2)are consistent with the data except for in the high energy region(Q2>1.2 GeV2),andωC,ωD,ωE normalized toωA are in reasonable agreement with the experimental results.Correction factors to the Breit-Wigner distribution of a1 and the Lagrangian of this decay are proposed to the model.

Quantum Anti-Zeno Effect in Nuclear Decay

The acceleration of decay induced by frequency measurements,namely the quantum anti-Zeno effect(AZE),was first predicted by Kofman and Kurizki [Nature 405(2000) 546].The effect of the frequency measurements on nuclear β decay rate is analyzed based on the time-dependent perturbation theory.We present a detailed calculation of the decay rates of ^(3)H,^(60)Co(β^(-)type),^(22)Na,^(106)Ag(β^(+) type) and ^(18)F,^(57)Co and ^(111)Sn(EC type)under frequency measurements.It is found that the effects of frequency measurements on the decay rates of β^(+)and β^(-)cases are different from the case of EC,and the smaller the β decay energy is,the more favorable it is to observe the AZE in experiment.Based on our analysis,it is suggested that possible experimental candidates should have a small decay energy and a reasonable half life(such as ^(3)H) for observing the AZE in β decay.

Ship Roll Analysis Using CFD-Derived Roll Damping:Numerical and Experimental Study

This study investigates the roll decay of a fishing vessel by experiments and computational fluid dynamics(CFD)simulations.A fishing vessel roll decay is tested experimentally for different initial roll angles.The roll decay is also simulated numerically by CFD simulations and is validated against the experimental results.It shows that the roll damping could be obtained by CFD with high level of accuracy.The linear and nonlinear damping terms are extracted from the CFD roll decay results and are used in a potential-based solver.In this way we are using a hybrid solver that benefits the accuracy of the CFD results in terms of roll damping estimation and the fast computations of the potential-based solver at the same time.This hybrid method is used for reproducing the free roll decays at Fn=0 and also in analyzing some cases in waves.The experiments,CFD and the hybrid parts are described in detail.It is shown that the suggested method is capable of doing the simulations in a very short time with high level of accuracy.This strategy could be used for many seakeeping analyses.

How the pollution stress acting on the phytoplankton populations ──an observation by the experimental enclosed ecosystem

A marine ended enclosed ecosystem expetiment was conducted by Chinese and Canadian scientists in Xiamen inApril 1985. Pollutants of heavy metals mixed with Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn and Cd and of suspended sediments were added tobags VOlumed about 10 m3. It was showed that dabing 21 days the effects on the plankton populations were evident in thebags due to the contamination, i. e. the growth of diatom population reduced to different levels characterized by the lagappearance of density peaks, low instant growth rate and delay of doulbling time with low biomass. A strong grazing fromthe pollutant affected zooplankton population resulted in heavy stress on the growth of algal population. As a result, thestress transferred to the phytoplankton population through the herbivores.

Inversion method for multi-point source pollution identification:Sensitivity analysis and application to European Tracer Experiment data

Fast and accurate identification of unknown pollution sources plays a crucial role in the emergency response and source control of air pollution.In this work,the applicability of a previously proposed two-step inversion method is investigated with sensitivity experiments and real data from the first release of the European Tracer Experiment(ETEX-1).The two-step inversion method is based on the principle of least squares and carries out additional model correction through the residual iterative process.To evaluate its performance,its retrieval results are compared with those of two other existing algorithms.It is shown that for those cases with richer measurements,all three methods are less sensitive to errors,while for cases where measurements are sparse,their retrieval accuracy will rapidly decrease as errors increase.From the results of sensitivity experiments,the new method provides higher estimation accuracy and a more stable performance than the other two methods.The new method presents the smallest maximum location error of 18.20 km when the amplitude of the measurement error increases to 100%,and 22.67 km when errors in the wind fields increase to 200%.Moreover,when applied to ETEX-1 data,the new method also exhibits good performance,with a location error of 4.71 km,which is the best estimation with respect to source location.

Oil pollution experiment in marine-enclosed experimental ecosystem Ⅰ. Ecological distribution of hydrocarbon-degradation bacteria

On the basis of the investigation into ecological distribution degradation and the self-purification ability of hydrocarbons by microbes, this paper deals with the study of ecological distribution of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria and its correlation with environmental factors in a marine-enclosed experimental ecosystem in the eastern part of the Xiamen Bay.

The effect of hosting international mega-events on urban haze pollution in China:Based on a quasi-natural experiment

With the rapid economic and social development of China,more and more Chinese cities are hosting important international events.However,the long-term effects of hosting international events on urban haze pollution are rarely discussed in existing literature.Based on the quasi-natural experiment of China hosting the G20 Hangzhou Summit in 2016,this paper applies the synthetic control method (SCM) for the first time to evaluate the impact of the G20 Hangzhou Summit on urban haze pollution in China.Compared with the traditional method,SCM measures the long-term impact of hosting the G20 Summit on haze pollution more scientifically.The results show that hosting the G20 Summit did improve the haze pollution in Hangzhou.The effectiveness and robustness of the above conclusions are objectively confirmed by multi-dimensional tests such as placebo test,permutation test,iterative test and difference-in-differences model.Further mechanism analysis shows that foreign direct investment and technological innovation are important channels for the G20 Summit to curb haze pollution in Hangzhou.At the same time,this paper employs a series of methods to systematically evaluate the impact of the G20 Hangzhou Summit on haze pollution in both time and space dimensions.This paper provides a credible basis and empirical support for the impact of international mega-events on air pollution in China.

Search for two-neutrino double-beta decay of^(136)Xe to the 0^(+)_(1)excited state of 136Ba with the complete EXO-200 dataset

A new search for two-neutrino double-beta(2νββ)decay of^(136)Xe to the 0+1 excited state of 136Ba is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset.A deep learning-based convolutional neural network is used to discriminate signal from background events.Signal detection efficiency is increased relative to previous searches by EXO-200 by more than a factor of two.With the addition of the Phase II dataset taken with an upgraded detector,the median 90%confidence level half-life sensitivity of 2νββdecay to the 0+1 state of 136Ba is 2.9×10^(24)yr using a total^(136)Xe exposure of 234.1 kg yr.No statistically significant evidence for 2νββdecay to the 0^(+)_(1)state is observed,leading to a lower limit of T2ν1/2(0^(+)→0^(+)_(1))>1.4×10^(24)yr at 90%confidence level,improved by 70%relative to the current world's best constraint.

Impact of gravitation on gaseous pollutant source identification

It is necessary to identify a gaseous pollutant source rapidly so that prompt actions can be taken, but this is one of the difficulties in the inverse problem areas. In this paper, an approach to identifying a sudden continuous emission pollutant source based on single sensor information is developed to locate a source in an enclosed space with a steady velocity field. Because the gravity has a very important influence on the gaseous pollutant transport and the source identification, its influence is analyzed theoretically and a conclusion is drawn that the velocity of fluid is a key factor to effectively help weaken the gravitational influence. Further studies for a given 2-D case by using the computational fluid dynamics （CFD） method show that when the velocity of inlet is less than one certain value, the influence of gravity on the pollutant transport is very significant, which will change the velocity field obviously. In order to quantitatively judge the practical applicability of identification approach, a synergy degree of the velocity fields before and after a source appearing is proposed as a condition for considering the influence of gravity. An experimental device simulating pollutant transmission was set up and some experiments were conducted to verify the practical application of the above studies in the actual gravitational environment. The results show that the proposed approach can successfully locate the sudden constant source when the experimental situations meet the identified conditions.

Panda X-III： Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure ^(136)Xe gas time projection chambers

Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay(NLDBD)is now regarded as the topmost promising technique to explore the nature of neutrinos after the discovery of neutrino masses in oscillation experiments.Panda X-III(particle and astrophysical xenon experiment III)will search for the NLDBD of136Xe at the China Jin Ping Underground Laboratory(CJPL).In the first phase of the experiment,a high pressure gas Time Projection Chamber(TPC)will contain 200 kg,90%136Xe enriched gas operated at10 bar.Fine pitch micro-pattern gas detector(Microbulk Micromegas)will be used at both ends of the TPC for the charge readout with a cathode in the middle.Charge signals can be used to reconstruct the electron tracks of the NLDBD events and provide good energy and spatial resolution.The detector will be immersed in a large water tank to ensure～5 m of water shielding in all directions.The second phase,a ton-scale experiment,will consist of five TPCs in the same water tank,with improved energy resolution and better control over backgrounds.

Sensitivity Analysis of Pollutants and Pattern Factor in a Gas Turbine Model Combustor due to Changes in Stabilizing Jets Characteristics

In the present paper,a sensitivity analysis of pollutants and pattern factor in a model combustor due to changes in the geometrical characteristics of stabilizing jets has been carried out.The exhaust pollutants including NO_(x),CO and soot have been chosen due to their harmful effect on the environment.The pattern factor has been also considered owing to its impact on turbine blades.The geometrical characteristics comprise diameter,angle and position of stabilizing jets.Eulerian-Lagrangian approach has been employed to model liquid fuel injection and distribution,breakup and evaporation of droplets.For the analysis of reactive-spray flow characteristics,RANS approach,realizable k-εturbulence model,discrete ordinates radiative heat transfer model and steady flamelet combustion model together with the chemical reaction mechanism of diesel fuel(C_(10)H_(22))have been applied.NO_(x) modeling has been performed via post-processing.Sensitivity analysis is such that by making variations in the problem inputs(diameter,angle and position of jets)in an organized manner,the effects on the outputs(NO_(x),CO,soot and pattern factor)are predicted.The number and order of simulations are predicted by design of experiments and full factorial model.Results have been analyzed using analysis of variance.It has been observed that if interactions among the characteristics of jets are considered,it is possible to analyze the exhaust pollutants more accurately.In fact,by using the interactions,it is likely to find a point where all output parameters are improved.Results show that by considering interactions of stabilizing jet characteristics,the maximum values of NO_(x),CO,soot and pattern factor change from 13.927 ppm,11.198%mole fraction,2.877 ppm and 0.043 to 26.233 ppm,14.693%mole fraction,142.357 ppm and 0.060,respectively.Furthermore,the minimum values change from 5.819 ppm,7.568%mole fraction,0.013 ppm and 0.029 to 6.098 ppm,5.987%mole fraction,0.002 ppm and 0.027,respectively.

科技金融政策改善了城市空气污染吗?——基于“促进科技和金融结合试点”的准自然实验

创新是城市发展的第一动力,绿色是城市发展的内在要求。科技金融政策通过金融手段助力创新发展,对城市绿色发展具有重要意义。文章基于2004—2020年中国284个城市的面板数据,采用多期双重差分法评估了科技金融政策对于城市空气污染的影响。研究结论如下:(1)试点政策显著抑制了城市工业二氧化硫排放和工业烟(粉)尘排放,且随着政策不断推进,该抑制效应呈现增强态势;(2)科技和金融结合试点政策通过提高地区绿色技术创新水平和推动产业结构升级的双重路径改善城市空气污染;(3)科技金融政策对空气污染的抑制作用因城市的地理区位、人口规模、科技投入和金融发展水平的不同而存在差异。研究认为应根据不同地区禀赋条件,完善地区科技金融体系建设,强化科技金融治理,推动科技企业发展;走绿色发展道路,重视科技创新发展的同时加强对传统行业的环境友好化改造。

选择实验视角下塑料污染治理的农业生态价值评估——来自黑、豫、浙、粤、川五省的经验证据

塑料为农业生产带来了极大的便利,但其废弃物的不当管理也造成了严重的环境问题。为了科学评估塑料污染治理的农业生态价值,合理确定污染治理措施的优先序,优化塑料污染治理投入资源配置,论文设计了一个包括源头减量、回收利用、清理整治与价格等属性的选择实验,以黑、豫、浙、粤、川5省487份调研数据为例,利用条件Logit模型测算塑料污染治理的边际支付意愿与塑料污染治理价值的补偿剩余。研究表明:(1)受访农业居民在塑料污染治理特征属性上的偏好为:源头减量>清理整治>回收利用,其支付意愿分别为:32.79元/人、25.27元/人、15.78元/人;(2)通过补偿剩余测算,为解决塑料污染治理难题,受访农业居民污染治理支付意愿为147.68元/人。应逐步构建起“减量化—再利用—资源化”的塑料污染全生命周期治理体系,优先考虑源头减量和清理整治方面的治理措施。