Hydrothermal pretreatment involving lignocellulosic biomass with regard to hemicellulose recuperation

The reduction in specific growth rate coincided with a 15.1% and 17.3% reduction in standard metabolic rate; however, maximum metabolic rate and aerobic scope were unaffected. Additionally, measures of social subordination showed no differences between oil-exposed and control fish. These results reinforce the hypothesis that acute oil exposure can have prolonged sub-lethal effects that compromise the ability of exposed individuals to perform effectively in their environment, including gathering and/or metabolizing food. Furthermore, this work highlights the premise that oil spills can be more detrimental in already at-risk ecosystems.Surfactant Enhanced In-Situ Chemical Oxidation (S-ISCO) is an emerging technology in the remediation of sites with residual Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPLs), a ubiquitous problem in the environment and a challenge to solve. In this work, three nonionic surfactants E-Mulse3® (E3), Tween80 (T80), and a mixture of Tween80-Span80 (TS80), and an anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), combined with persulfate activated by alkali (PSA) as oxidant have been investigated to remove the DNAPL generated as liquid waste in lindane production, which is composed of 28 chlorinated organic compounds (COCs). Because the compatibility between surfactants and oxidants is a key aspect in the S-ISCO effectiveness the unproductive consumption of PS by surfactants was investigated in batch (up to 864 h) varying the initial concentration of PS (84-42 mmol·L-1) and surfactants (0-12 g·L-1) and the NaOHPS molar ratio (1 and 2). Citarinostat order The solubilization capacity of a partially oxidized surfactant was analyzed by estimating its Equivalent Surfactant Capacity, ESC, (as mmolCOCs dissolvedgsurf-1) and comparing it to the expected value for an unoxidized surfactant, ESCo. Finally, the abatement of DNAPL with simultaneous addition of surfactant and PSA was studied. At the conditions used, a negligible unproductive consumption of PS was found by SDS; meanwhile, PS consumption at 360 h ranged between 70 and 80% using the nonionic surfactants. The highest ratios of ESC/ESCo were found with SDS and E3 and these surfactants were chosen for the S-ISCO treatment. When oxidant and surfactant were simultaneously applied for DNAPL abatement the COC conversion was more than three times higher with E3 (0.6 at 360 h) than SDS. Moreover, it was obtained that the time needed for the removal of a mass of DNAPL by PSA in the absence of surfactants was notably higher than the time required when a suitable surfactant was added.Social development and changes in natural conditions have seriously affected the ecosystem services value (ESV) of wetlands. It is important for social sustainable development and human welfare to identify and evaluate the driving factors that lead to changes in ESVs. Based on the land use data of Northeast China (NEC) from 1980 to 2015, the Emergy method and Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index decomposition analysis (LMDI) was applied to calculate the main ESVs of wetlands and clarify the contributions of different driving factors to ESVs changes. The results showed that the value of provision services (ESVp) and cultural services (ESVc) increased significantly, while the value of regulation services (ESVr) and supporting services (ESVs) decreased. Overall, the ESV of wetlands increased by 7.31 × 1022 solar emjoules (sej), with a growth rate of 127.73%. The most obvious factors driving ESV changes were the wetland supporting factor (△GA), per capita GDP factor (△PG), and protection investment factor (△T). The combined average contribution weight of the three factors was above 50%. From the perspective of driving force category, social-economic development effect had the greatest impact on ESVs, with average contribution weights ranging from 45.18% to 54.59%, followed by human activity effect, average contribution weights ranging from 33.45% to 40.14%, and the influence of natural factor effect was relatively small. The research results would provide a reference for protecting and improving the ESV of the wetland ecosystem.In urban watersheds, stormwater retention ponds are intermediate junctions that capture, store, and discharge stormwater, and provide an organic-rich environment that transforms and retains nutrients and other constituents. This study investigated the concentrations and loads of dissolved and particulate organic carbon (DOC and POC) in discharges from a stormwater retention pond that receives runoff from a residential catchment. We installed an autosampler, a flowmeter, and a rain gauge at the outlet (weir) of the stormwater retention pond and collected samples from 13 storm events during the 2016 wet season (May-September). Results showed the dominance of DOC (11.2 mg L-1) over POC (0.6 mg L-1) in the pond discharges. The elevated DOC levels in the pond were close to eutrophic lakes and ponds (~10.3 mg L-1), but not statistically different from urban runoff at a nearby site. High-frequency monitoring of pond discharge waters showed that DOC concentrations peaked at the beginning of storm events due to initial surface runoff following a rainstorm (first-flush effect). Rainfall samples analysis suggested that precipitation accounted for a small fraction of DOC pool, but carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratios supported that in situ aquatic sources could dominate DOC inputs in some storms. Relative to DOC, the first-flush effect was even more apparent for POC, and POC inputs from in situ aquatic sources were more common based on C/N ratios. The calculated export of total organic C (TOC = DOC + POC) was 22.5 kg ha-1 over the observed events, and the estimated export was 33.8 kg ha-1 over the 2016 wet season. Our data suggest that reducing high DOC export from residential stormwater ponds warrant controls on both inputs from the watershed and in situ aquatic sources.Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) are widely employed in a variety of domestic and industrial products, and are ubiquitously detected in the environment. Short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) have been listed in the Stockholm Convention as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), but not medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), even though they exhibit physicochemical properties and environmental behaviors similar to SCCPs. However, very limited data are available regarding their environmental behaviors and fates in river-estuary systems. China is the major producer of chlorinated paraffins (CPs), and Shandong Province is the main producer of CPs in China. Here, we investigated the distribution, transport, and fate of SCCPs and MCCPs in a heavily polluted river in Shandong Province, aiming to explore the distributions of CPs between dissolved and particulate phases, and between water and sediment phases, as well as the transport of CPs from river headwaters to estuaries and the roles of the estuarine turbidity maximum zone (ETM) on the fate of CPs.