Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering

Session: 3.Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering

42 articles
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Effect of Drying Temperature on Sensory and Flavor of Mint

Xiaoyan Zhao, Chao Zhang, Yubin Wang, Yue Ma
The effect of drying temperature on sensory and flavor of dehydrated mint was evaluated. The color and appearance of the dehydrated mint were affected by the drying temperature. A lower temperature, such as 55 and 65 oC, preserved the greenness and avoided the browning of the dehydrated mint. The flavor...
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Research on Energy-Saving by Green Technology in a Shenyang University

Xin Li, Yemin Zhang, Rui Bai
According to the statistics, the energy consumption of the university is more than the social average consumption. Coupled with the construction of energy-saving requirements, the external walls and roof are not adopted, the structure of the performance is poor.At the same time, relevant standards is...
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A Prototype System for Autism Rehabilitation Based on Broken Mirror Theory

Huaping Zhu, Ming Zhao, Yaoru Sun
It is seems that the dysfunction of the human mirror neuron system plays an important role in the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this paper, we described a novel information system for autism therapy by means of mirror neural training induced by virtual reality in brain–computer interfaces. This...
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Study on the Ecological Urban Design in Hot Spring Resort

Yubin Luo
This paper explains the application and development of ecological concept in urban construction. It takes the Hot Spring Resort urban design in Guangzhou Conghua city as an example to explain the process by comprehensive analysis of land ecological function, GIS Engineering, flood area and policy constraint...
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A Simulation Model of Big Data Analysis for Fire Alarm

Shijiao Zhu, Jiayao Zhang, Xing Zhou, Jun Yang
This paper discusses the construction and implementation of forest early warning system from the perspective of large data storage, analysis and structure. In this paper, the architecture and model of the combination of video alert and large data forecast are proposed, and it analyzes and discusses it....
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The Study on the Guidelines of Urban Public Open Space for Non-independent Land :Taking New York and Hong Kong as Examples

Ying Shi, Yongwen Yang
In this article, we examine the definition of the Urban Public Open Space for Non-independent Land, and understand the related legal status in China. It attempts to summarize and compare with the mechanism of the Public Open Space in Private Development (POSPD) in Hong Kong and New York, so as to draw...
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A Case Study of Computer Assisted American Literature Teaching

Xiuguo Huang, Xiaomei Chang, Luwei Xing
American literature course also called American Literature History and Anthology is among the important courses of English majors that meant to improve Chinese students’ cross—cultural ability and better their language proficiency. However, the outdated teaching methodology frustrated students’ interest...
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Spatial variability of soil nutrients in Juglans regia plantations in depressions between karst hills

Qiujin Tan, Fuping Zeng, Haisheng Chen, Zhenshi Qin, Hu Du, Wenlin Wang, Hao Zhang
To understand the spatial variability of soil nutrients in plantation forest in depressions between karst hills, we examined the characteristics and spatial variability of soil nutrients in Juglans regia plantation in Fengshan County, Southwest China. Most soil nutrients had moderate variability, and...
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The Principles of Ecopath with Ecosim and its Application in Marine Ecosystem

Yashu Bai, Rongshuo Cai
Ecopath with Ecosim(EwE)is the core tool of simulating aquatic ecosystem and originated from Ecopath model. The paper reviewed the principle of EwE and its application in the structure and trophodynamics characters of marine ecosystem, fishery management, marine pollution and set of marine protected...
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Research on Curriculum Construction of Universities of Applied Science

Wenhua Liu
Universities of applied Science have been pilot project in China. Their unique value and core elements give expression to the curriculum. Judging from the current situation, there are lots of problems in their curriculum. The curriculum construction should base on their special requirements and their...
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The Combination of Professional Education and Humanistic Education in the Environmental Science Teaching

Jianqiu Chen, Ruixin Guo
Taking Environmental microbiology as an example. Carry out reform and exploration of theory teaching content by analyzing the nature of experiential teaching philosophy, combining with personality traits of contemporary college students. It can achieve obvious effect of teaching and also has a good reference...
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Dynamic Occupation-Replenish Balance Theory of Coal Village Relocation based on PSO Algorithm

Yaoqi Yang, Zheng Wang, Sucui Li, Yuanpei Yang
Long-term coal mining under villages in our country has caused subsidence and deformation of land surface, large areas of farmland and houses has been damaged and the villages are no longer liveable. It is imminent to find a reasonable villages relocation method. This study improved traditional “occupation...
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Restoration and Dynamic Pattern of Natural Herbaceous Vegetation of Xiangxi River’s Water-Level Fluctuation Zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

Jianxia Xu, Jianzhu Wang, Bin Lu, Heng Xie, Lei Li, Ming Wang, Ziye Zheng
Taking the vegetation at the water-level-fluctuation zone(WLFZ) of Xiangxi River as the object of the research, we use the sampling method to study the composition of species, diversity of community and dynamic pattern in two years at different altitudes after the filling of the Three Gorges Dam Reservoir....
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Thermoeconomic Optimization for Three-Heat-Source Refrigerator with Linear Phenomenological Heat-Transfer Law

Liya Xu
Using finite-time thermodynamics, optimal analysis on a class of three-heat-source refrigerator for linear phenomenological heat-transfer law is done. The cooling load for the refrigerator per unit total cost is proposed as objective functions for the optimization. The optimum performance parameters...
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Optimization and Research on Environmental Effect with Sewage Diffuser in DA Ya Bay

Hang Yu
The sewage diffuser is an environmental material for protecting marine environment. It plays an important role in port engineering. Its effect under deep water was carried out between different diffuser design parameters based on the hydraulic model test, and DA Ya Bay sewage marine disposal project...
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Some Notes on Abundant Quasi-Ideals of Ample Semigroups

Chunhua Li
The aim of this paper is to study ample semigroups by using natural partial orders on abundant semigroups. After giving some properties and characterizations of abundant quasi-ideals on ample semigroups, we prove that there exists an idempotent-separating good congruence on an abundant quasi-ideal of...
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Research on the Hub City of “OBOR” Based on the Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Approach

Min Xie, Chunhua Li
As a fuzzy mathematics method, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation approach is used in various fields, and achieves some good results. The purpose of this paper is to use this approach to research overall conditions of the hub city of “OBOR”——Nanchang. After obtaining the relevant data, it is concluded that...
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Empirical Research on Measurement Index System of Low-Carbon City

Jun Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yao Wang
Based on carbon source and carbon sink analysis frame in low-carbon economy theory, this paper constructs a low-carbon city measure index system which includes 13 indexes, which are production, transportation, construction and living carbon sources, forest and green land carbon sink.
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Study on Diffusion of Low-Carbon City Technology in Guizhou Province

Jun Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yao Wang
Based on classical technology diffusion model, the diffusion model of low-carbon cities in Guizhou province is constructed, and the time path function of the technology diffusion of low carbon cities is deduced. the graphics is S-shaped curve. The results show that because of the differences of internal...
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Research on Foreign Assets Common Benefit Mechanism of Tobacco Farmer Cooperatives Based on Structural Equation Model

Jun Liu, Feng Wang, Bing Zhou
First of all, the paper starts with present situation of foreign assets common benefit mechanism of tobacco farmer cooperatives, proposes a theoretical framework using structural equation model. The empirical analysis on effective sample of 262 farmers cooperatives finds institutionalization of financial...
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Research on Influencing Factors of Foreign Assets Common Benefit Mechanism of Tobacco Farmer Cooperatives Based on Interpretive Structural Model

Jun Liu, Feng Wang, Bing Zhou
This paper uses literature metrology method to statistical analyze related literatures. 14 influencing factors of foreign assets common benefit mechanism of tobacco farmer cooperatives are determined and selected from predecessors' research achievements. Relational structure of 14 influencing factors...
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Exploration of the Building of the Student Party Branch in Higher Vocational Colleges under the Network Environment

GuoHui Su
With the rapid development of information technology, network is closely related to the college students’ daily life. Building the student Party branch in higher vocational colleges under the network environment is a new management model of the Party organization. As a basic part of the organization...
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Assessment of an Evaluation Approach for Malodorous Rivers

Huixia Jin, Dongxia Zhang, Lifei Ye, Qing Yang, Kefeng Zhang
Urban river systems have increasingly become polluted in China due to rapid industrialization and urbanization. Although there are standards for classification of surface water in terms of water quality, no classification exists for malodorous rivers. In this study we used a combined approach of quantitative...
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A Study on the Loss Compensation Estimation of Marine Living Resources Resulting from the Land Reclamation in China

Xiuhua Yan, Rongshuo Cai, Yashu Bai
In this article, the loss of marine living resources resulting from the land reclamation as part of the sea-development plan for the regional construction of Niutou Bay, Changle, Fujian Province (including monetary value) was studied, based on the data of this area and the current estimation method for...
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Research on Asparagus Quality Improvement by Optimum Blanching Medium of Asparagus

Xiangren Meng, Hengpeng Wang
Experiment with fresh green asparagus as raw material, Research on three kinds of common blanching medium as water, oil and water mixed oil. Respectively,the antioxidant activity, dry matter dissolution rate and sensory properties of asparagus as an indicator.And the conditions of Blanching medium were...
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Recycling Nutrient by Integration of Pond Aquaculture and Aquatic Vegetable Cultivation

Ling Tao, Jianqiang Zhu, Gu Li, Xiaoli Li
This experiment was designed to assess the recovery of nutrient from aquaculture pond effluent by lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) and cane shoot ( Zizania latifolia) cultivation field based on the pit-testing experiment .The results showed that under retention water management, the recycling rate of cane shoot...
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Effects of Nutrient Enrichment on the Stability of Producer Species Under the Pressure of Predation

Fang Zhao, Huayong Zhang, Lei Zhao, Wang Tian
Nutrient enrichment has a great influence on the stability of producer species. However, in the presence of predators, its influence has not yet been studied. In this research, we build a food web model which coupled a classic nutrient competition model with a bio-energetic predator-prey model, and a...
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Assessing the Development Level of China's National Sustainable Communities at County Level

Leigang Shi, Huarui Wu, Yuli Lin, Xiang Sun, Heju Huai, Cunjun Li
In this paper the sustainable development level of 77 China national sustainable communities at county level was assessed. An assessment indicator system was designed composing of 3 first-level indicators and 14 second-level indicators. The entropy method was employed to calculate the development index...
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Collectable Amounts of Straw Resources and Their Distribution in China

Binling Ai, Zhanwu Sheng, Lili Zheng, Wenting Shang
Crop straw is a valuable renewable resource, which holds great potential to be developed further. The estimation of the yield and collectable amount of crop straw is a foundation for its comprehensive utilization. Based on the output of major farm products, the collectable amounts of different kinds...
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Water-Based Separation of Urho’s Oil Sands

Min Li, Rongmei Geng, Shuai Zhang, Zheng Zhang
As the important unconventional energy source, oil sands have been paid more attention by the oil workers. The water-based separation method is widely applied to separate bitumen from oil sands. The water-based extraction bitumen has the advantages of large scale, extraction and separation without space...
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Container Sea-Rail Transport Volume Forecasting of Ningbo Port Based on Combination Forecasting Model

Huijun Wu, Guiyun Liu
According to Grey theory and Radial Basis Function (Radial Basis Function, RBF)neural network forecasting method respective characteristics, based on Ningbo port container sea-rail transport volume for the original data in recent six years, Grey-RBF neural network combined forecasting model is used to...
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Analysis of Maxproximity and RCA with International Trade Data--Take China as an Example

Mengyu Qiao, Tieju Ma
This paper emphasize “maxproximity” to define the maximum proximity between a product with RCA1, then calculate the relationship between them. We take China as an example to verify the feasibility on maxproximity, simulate the product structure evolution with the rules we summarize, and construct a product...
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Characteristics and Mechanism of Bedding Rock Slope Failure: A Case Study on No.5 Slope at Wutai-Yuxian Expressway

Kun Li, Yanjun Shang, Wantong He, Yi Jiang
It is found by engineering geological exploration that No.5 slope in Wutai-Yuxian expressway is typical dip slope forming in ancient gneiss terrain. We conclude that slope deformation and failure mainly result from the gneiss and mica schist constituting the slope and the heavy precipitation in construction...
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Upgrade of Trade Structure Based on the Average Proximity

Mengli Wang, Tieju Ma, Mengyu Qiao
This article analyzed the relationship between average proximity and the amount of export trade of RCA>1 based on 1984-2010 international trade data. First, we introduced the concept of average proximity. Then we summarized product evolution law and showed all products evolution by product space. Finally,...
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Study on Scenario Construction of Major Emergency for Critical Infrastructure

Jingjing Wang, Wei Zhu, Yukun Gao
Critical infrastructure is the basis for normal operation and healthy development of the city. With the correlation and dependence between critical infrastructure increasingly strengthened, critical infrastructure disasters often bring huge economic losses and serious social impact, and improving emergency...
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Research on Fault Diagnosis of Oil Pumping Machine based on Wavelet Transform

Junxia Wang, Jiating Jiang, Xiaogang Wang
The fault diagnosis approach of pumping machine based on wavelet transform is proposed. The Mallat algorithm is employed to extract the feature components from the measured electric power figure, the periodic signal of the oil pumping machine as well as the vibration signals of electric machine and the...
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Assessment of Urban Environment Carrying Capacity Based on Catastrophe Theory

Yue Peng
Urban environment carrying capacity is limited. In this paper, catastrophe theory was applied in analyzing urban environmental system. Based on it, catastrophe progression method was presented to assess urban environment carrying capacity. By the evaluation of the single environmental element carrying...
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Investigation of Indoor Thermal Environment for Rural Passive Solar House in Zhongwei of Ningxia Area

Guochen Sang, Deyong Chen, Yan Han, Yiyun Zhu, Qin Zhao
In order to probe into and solve the problems of rural residential heating by using solar energy in winter, the indoor and outdoor thermal environmental parameters of a passive solar heating house are tested and indoor thermal environment is analyzed and evaluated using the operating temperature in this...
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Research on Stability of Slope of landfill Site Based on FLAC3D

Yifan Zeng, Shouqiang Liu, Yanliang Zhai, Wei Zhang
The research is aiming to solve the slope stability problem for the landfill project of Ordos coal deep processing project conducted by Zhong Tian Energy Co., Ltd. It analyzes the stability and reinforcement measures for the slope of landfill via theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. The first...
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Research on Development Potential and Comprehensive Utilization of Crop Straw Resources in Jilin Province

Weidong Xi, Guanfang Yu, Yutao Sun
Jilin Province has inherent advantages in straw resources. Analysis of development potential a can help to realize the current situation of resource exploitation. The paper analyzes the development potential of the crop straw in Jilin Province. And then, it studies the direct economic effect and environmental...
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The Comparison of Four Different Groundwater Level Prediction Models in Baoding City

Qi Wang, Tingshan Tian, Changqing Li
This paper has quantitatively predicted the groundwater level variation in Baoding City based on BP neural network model, regression analysis model, time series model, and Markov model. It can be concluded that the prediction accuracy of BP neural network model and time series model is the highest, and...
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A Reliability Index Computation Method Based on Particle Swarm Optimization

Haitao Lu, Yuge Dong
For the structural limit state function with the multiple most probable failure points(MPP) and the multiple most probable failure domains, the reliability computation error generated by the First Order Reliability Method (FORM) or the Second Order Reliability Method (SORM) is unacceptable in some important...