Uranium is a redox-sensitive element. While U (Ⅵ), the oxidized form of uranium, is soluble and thus mobile in groundwater, U (Ⅳ) readily forms UO2(s) and is precipitated. Recent geomicrobiological researches demonstrated that dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria can effectively remove uranium fi'om contaminated groundwater by reducing soluble U (Ⅵ) to relatively insoluble U (Ⅳ). This novel form of microbial reduction of U (Ⅵ) is reported to be much faster than abiological reduction. The objective of this work was to investigate U (Ⅵ) reduction by indigenous bacteria in uranium-bearing black shale sediment and to determine whether microbially-precipitated uranium has long-term stability in subsurface. Through this study, fundamental information on the effects of microorganisms on the fate of redox-sensitive elements in natural settings will be provided. Soil and sediment samples were collected from uranium-bearing black shale in the Dukpyung area in Korea. Microbial inoculum was prepared from soil and sediment slurry supernatant. The reactors were purged with N2 : CO2 gas (80 ; 20) to maintain anaerobic condition. Glucose, acetate or lactate was added as an electron donor at a final concentration of 5 mM. 相似文献
A serious and difficult problem confronting those water plants which use reservoirs as water resources is how to predict the time when algae bloom would happen. A series of experiments have been designed and finished after efforts of nearly one year, and achieved some important and useful regulations which can do great help to the problem. In order to study the correlation between changes of several typical indices and growth regulation, algae were cultivated in an artificial environment. The raw water of these experiments came from subsurface water at the Dashahe Reservoir in Guangdong Province, China. During the cultivating process, it strictly controlled original indexes as trophic factors, ecological factors and topographic factors, and has successfully achieved 64 sets of experiment data, which indicate some suggested conclusions. Water temperature and light intensity are the prime inducements of algae bloom when water environment is nutritionally sufficient. It has proved that original trophic status, light intensity and water temperature have important effects on algae growth velocity. It has analyzed different algae growth velocities due to different original total nitrogen and total phosphorus, as well as light intensity, and used the data of algae biomass in lag phase and log phase to study the correlation between time and algal biomass with SPSS software. Results indicated that both under different original nutritional conditions and under different light intensities, the relationship between algae biomass and time matches an exponential function very well. So, it proposes a very promising style algal growing velocity model, which can be expressed as:dDdt = kent. According to the model, original trophic status, light intensity and water temperature will affect the concrete values of variants k and n. 相似文献
Rivers, lakes, and coastal waters are chaotic systems — physical, chemical, and biological parameters influence their development. Each parameter itself is influenced by the system. Human interaction has led to fast eutrophication. Oxygen input and artificial mixing have been considered as tools to overcome the biggest problems of fish kills, algal blooms, and bad odour. The favoured technology for destratification and oxygen input so far is the bubble curtain. This technology has been applied successfully in several cases. But often, this technology could not be implemented because of high investment and operating costs.
Alternatively, the free jet is discussed as an efficient and low investment and operating cost technology. The free jet may transport oxygen-rich water from the surface down into the hypolimnion, thereby destratifying a water system. A free jet entrains on its way down even more oxygen rich and warm epilimnic water. This water will finally — if some mixing with the cold hypolimnic water occurs — be transferred to the metalimnion. The density differences will make this water travel long distances.
The energy input may be very low and the objective must not be to totally overturn a system. A jet started in early spring may help a lake to have a deep enough epilimnion, relatively large in volume in respect to the hypolimnion, and the normal wind will recirculate the water transferring enough oxygen to the deeper part, thus expanding the fish habitat and enabling benthic fauna. Literature also shows that the occurrence of massive algal blooms may be reduced.
The oxygen efficiency can be multifold compared to standard technologies. 相似文献
This paper uses the U.S. 1990 Public Use Micro Sample to characterize the 1985-1990 primary, return, and onward interstate migration patterns for blacks and whites. The classification of these three types of migration is based on the state of birth and state of residence at the start and end of the census interval. Major migration streams, migration rates, and net migration are evaluated for each migrant type and compared for blacks and whites. Overall, the migration patterns of blacks resemble those of whites, with an attraction to the South and the Southwest and movement out of the Northeast and the Midwest. Some differences were observed, however, between the two races. Return migration rates were somewhat higher for black migrants as compared with whites, and onward migration rates were lower. Black primary out-migrants represented a larger proportion of the total flows from the southern states as compared with white out-migrant flows, and they represented a larger share of the out-migrants from the rust belt states. The major migration streams also had different regional and national patterns by race and migrant type. 相似文献