How Non-native Species in Lake Erie Influence Trophic Transfer of Mercury and Lead to Top Predators

Lake Erie's food web has been dramatically modified by exotic species. Both exotic dreissenid mussels and the round goby Neogobius melanastomus have shifted the food web from a pelagicbased to a benthic-based one, potentially creating a new pathway for contaminant transfer to top predators. Before the invasion of round gobies, few predators of dreissenids occurred in Lake Erie, allowing contaminants to be confined to these benthic organisms. The invasion of the round goby has produced a new pathway through which these contaminants can enter the food web. To characterize heavy-metal transfer through this new food web and to assess risk to humans, water, surficial sediment, dreissenid, round goby, and smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieui samples were collected at three sites during summers, 2002 and 2003, and analyzed for total lead (Pb), total mercury (Hg), and methyl mercury (MeHg). In addition, we compared smallmouth bass Pb and Hg concentrations to those measured in 1993/1994, before round gobies were prevalent. Pb biodiminished and MeHg biomagnified through the food web to smallmouth bass; patterns were similar among our three sites. Total Pb concentrations in smallmouth bass were higher before the incorporation of round gobies into their diet. We attributed this decline to changes in food web structure, changes in contaminant burdens in prey, or declines in sediment Pb concentrations in Lake Erie. By comparison, Hg concentrations in smallmouth bass changed little, before and after the round goby invasion, possibly due to a shift in diet that increased growth. Despite a decline in sediment Hg concentrations in Lake Erie, smallmouth bass continued to accumulate Hg at historical rates possibly because of their high consumption rates of benthivorous round gobies. As smallmouth bass continue to consume round gobies during their lives, their Hg concentrations may well continue to increase, potentially increasing the risk of Hg contamination to humans.     

供水管网中阀门的选择

针对供水企业对供水管网阀门的使用要求，从供水的安全性、技术的先进性、水流的密封性、检验的真实性、质量的可靠性、操作的灵活性、价格的合理性、售后服务的保证性、订供货的一致性以及建立比较完善的检验与复验制度等方面。提出了对供水管网阀门的选择意见。     

北京城市供水安全及对策研究

“十一五”期间是首都经济社会快速发展的关键时期，也是应对水资源紧缺、保障供水安全的关键时期。确保首都供水安全是北京水务工作的第一要务，北京市水务局针对城市供水存在的主要矛盾和问题，对城市供水水源、水质水量、水厂、管网、设施等情况进行了全面调查，确定了工作思路，并据此提出了保障城市供水安全的目标和措施。     

Influence of thermal boundary conditions on natural convection in a square enclosure partially heated from below

Natural convection in air-filled 2D square enclosure heated with a constant source from below and cooled from above is studied numerically for a variety of thermal boundary conditions at the top and sidewalls. Simulations are performed for two kinds of lengths of the heated source, i.e., a small and a large source corresponding to 20% and 80% of the total length of the bottom wall, respectively. The Rayleigh number varied from 10³ to 10⁷. Results are presented in the form of streamline and isotherm plots as well as the variation of the Nusselt number and maximum temperature at the heat source surface. Comparisons among the different thermal configurations considered are reported.     

Monitoring non-carbonated (‘still’) mineral waters for aerobic colonization

Fifty samples each of two leading brands of French, non-carbonated (‘still’) mineral waters, packed in plastic bottles, were stored in the dark for one month at approximately 20°C to allow marked proliferation of their autotrophic microbial flora. Upon completion of this challenge test 1250 ml per bottle were filtered through five membranes, which were subsequently cultured on 1/10 strength nutrient agar for 48 h at a temperature favouring the growth of thermotrophic organisms only, i.e. 42 ± 0.5°C. The numbers of colonies per one litre were below 10³ in all samples and did not exceed 200 in 56–80%, depending on the brand. Identification of the isolates demonstrated strong inhibition of the psychrotrophic. Gram-negative types, predominating in the association flora of stored still waters and preponderance of Gram-positive, catalase-positive, facultatively anaerobic cocci. Consequently, a Reference Value for the thermotrophic autotrophic colony count per 1 ml in still, commercial mineral waters of the order m = 1 and M = 5 seems justified. It is emphasized that, besides examining for these trivial organism, the usual tests for marker bacteria (Escherichia coli and Lancefield group D streptococci) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa should always be carried out.     

景电高扬程灌区水价改革实践及思考

水价是水商品价值的体现。由于多方面的原因，水价改革的进程与水商品生产经营的市场化供求关系还不相适应，致使现行水价不能体现水资源的市场需求价值。回顾总结景电灌区水价调整改革的实践，可以为西北高扬程灌区水价改革提供借鉴。     

马钢A/OO生物脱氮装置的试运行

介绍了马钢A/OO生物脱氮装置的工艺流程、工艺条件及影响因素,探讨了A/OO生物脱氮工艺试运行中存在的问题和解决措施。     

核磁共振测井在致密含气砂岩中的应用

通过对核磁共振测井的T₂谱及其T₂截至值的合理选取，解释并获得了鄂尔多斯盆地西缘上古生界山西组、石盒子组致密砂岩储集层的总孔隙度、有效孔隙度、毛细管束缚水体积、可动水体积及渗透率等参数，据此预测的储集层孔隙结构特征与岩心分析测试结果很吻合。研究还发现，致密含气砂岩的T₂谱具有分布范围窄-中等，波形及差谱分析谱位置明显后移、分布中等、呈单峰的典型特征。结合常规测井资料，综合研究了致密砂岩储层特征及其含气层的测井响应。经测试验证，致密含气砂岩储层的核磁共振测井解释结果十分可靠，表明核磁共振测井可用于该区致密含气砂岩复杂储集层评价。     

空分设备氮水预冷系统改进

分析 6 0 0 0m3 /h空分设备原氮水预冷系统存在的问题及原因 ,将水循环由原制氧站大循环改为氮水预冷系统内部的自循环 ,只增加水换热器和蓄水器 ,效果明显。     

巴基斯坦高摩赞水利枢纽工程项目危机处理及合同谈判

高摩赞工程项目是水电集团公司在巴基斯坦承建的第一个综合性的水利水电枢纽工程,也是第一个EPC合同形式的项目。本文主要介绍了项目危机处理及合同谈判的过程和措施,通过长达一年的艰苦谈判,化解了项目危机,增进了中巴传统友谊,实现了良好的经济效益和社会效益,为中国水电集团公司国际化战略发展提供了可借鉴的成功案例。