神经递质多巴胺在AQ修饰组合微电极上的伏安行为及其伏安溶出法测定

本文研究了神经递质多巴胺(DA)在AQ聚合物薄膜修饰组合微盘电极上的电化学行为。结果表明,在pH7.0的磷酸缓冲溶液中,修饰组合微盘电极经电化学处理后,DA的氧化还原峰电位差较小(约为80mV),氧化峰、还原峰的峰形比较对称。在选定条件下,DA的伏安溶出峰电流与浓度在1.0×10~(-6)～8.0×10~(-6)mol/L范围内呈线性关系。厚的AQ膜修饰组合微电极可基本上消除抗坏血酸的干扰。利用AQ膜修饰的微盘电极测定DA和肾上腺素(E)在膜中的扩散系数,分别为4.1X10~(-8)cm~2/s和2.4×10~(-8)cm~2/s。

DETERMINATION OF CATECHOL DERIVATIVES ON PRETREATMENT AND COPOLYMER COATED GLASSY-CARBON ELECTRODE

A glassy carbon electrode was pretreated electrochemically and was coated with a copolymer of maleic acid anhydride attached with Eastman-AQ55D (MA/AQ). The voltammetric behavior of a series of biologically important compounds, such as dopamine, L-DOPA, D

聚合物AQ修饰电极及其对有机阳离子的离子交换伏安溶出行为研究

本实验对聚合物Eastman—AQ 修饰电极的修饰方法及其对有机阳离子的溶出行为进行了研究。该电极具有良好的选择渗透性、离子交换性和防污性能,应用于有机阳离子的离子交换溶出伏安分析,显著地提高了分析的灵敏度和选择性。实验表明,该电极能广泛地应用于电化学研究和电分析测定。

贵州省遵义市大气降水中有机和无机地球化学特征研究

正确认识降水中的化学组分是评价酸雨和大气环境质量的重要途径，降水中低分子有机酸的研究是认识C、H、O等元素生物地球化学循环和酸雨成因的重要内容。贵州省遵义市作为我国酸雨高发地区，是降水化学组成尤其是低分子有机酸地球化学循环研究的典型区域。我们在遵义市进行了为期一年(2006年5月~2007年4月)的降水采集(共76个样品)，对pH值、电导率和主要的阴离子(包括有机和无机)、阳离子进行了测定，并进行了分析和讨论。 (1) pH和电导率的雨量加权平均值分别为4.11(范围：2.30~ 6.04)和62.10 μs•cm-1 (范围：6.60 ~ 1630.00 μs•cm-1)，酸雨频率高达93.2%，pH存在着显著的季节变化，其中冬季pH值最低，表明遵义市酸雨污染较为严重，冬季为最。 (2) 遵义市监测期间离子浓度的大小顺序为SO42-> Ca2+> H+> NH4+> NO3-> Cl-> F->HCOO-> Mg2+> K+> CH3COO-> Na+> (COO)22-> PO43-> NO2-，其中SO42-、Ca2+、H+、NH4+、NO3-是最主要离子，浓度分别为148.15 μmol•L-1、81.89 μmol•L-1、77.74 μmol•L-1、43.80 μmol•L-1和31.50μmol•L-1，它们分别占离子总量的31.97%、17.67%、16.78%、9.45%和6.54%；遵义市大气降水中主要的致酸物质是SO42-和NO3-，主要的缓冲物质是Ca2+和NH4+，大气污染类型属硫酸钙型。相对酸度和中和因子结果表明降水中仅有77%的降水酸度被碱性物质(以Ca2+和NH4+为主)中和；因子分析中H+、NO3-、nss-SO42-(非海源性硫酸根)、NH4+归为一组，再次表明SO42-和NO3-对降水酸度的重要贡献。富集系数和源的贡献分析表明，SO42-和NO3-主要来自人为活动的贡献，SO42-来源主要包括工业、民用的燃煤燃烧释放的SO2，NO3-主要是遵义市电厂和其它工厂向大气中排放的NOx的化学转化而成。Ca2+主要来自于遵义市的土壤及水泥厂等的排放；Mg2+主要来自陆源输入，部分来自海水的贡献。氮肥生产、大面积农田化肥的使用以及生物排放源很可能是该地区降水中NH4+的主要污染源。值得注意的是，作为海盐性离子的Cl-，在遵义市降水中重要的部分还是人为活动，主要是遵义工厂(如碱厂和钛厂)向大气中排放的HCl和Cl2转化而成。无机离子浓度的季节变化表明，对于遵义市，需要逐步改变能源结构尤其是冬季工业、居民燃煤的使用，才能有效地改善遵义市当前的环境污染。 (3) 遵义市降水中含量较高的常见有机酸是[HCOO-]T、[CH3COO-]T和[(COO)22-]T，它们的雨量加权平均值各为9.29 μmol•L -1、6.47 μmol•L-1和5.06 μmol•L-1；遵义市区降水中有机酸总浓度为22.28 μmol•L-1，占阴离子总量的9.39 %；遵义市降水中四季的有机酸浓度由高到低分别为：春季>冬季>秋季>夏季。以上结果表明，遵义市的有机酸是降水中的重要组成部分，其浓度存在明显的季节性变化。在一次降雨事件中，有机酸的浓度一般随降雨时间的延长而降低，但在降雨中后期有时会出现上升的现象，表明有机酸主要来自云下淋滤作用，少数情况下来自大气远距离的传输。 (4) 相关性分析发现甲酸和乙酸具有强烈的正相关(r= 0.86)，表明甲酸和乙酸具有共同的来源。有机酸与降水中的主要无机离子NO3-、nss-SO42-、K+、Na+、Ca2+等存在着中度相关，表明有机酸的来源与人为活动有着重要的关系。应用气液平衡的原理，提出了降水中甲酸、乙酸比值(F/A)aq的有机酸来源判定方法。发现遵义降水中的有机酸春季和冬季主要来自人类活动的释放，其中春季主要来自遵义市南郊的工业污染，由南方水汽(占春季总量的54%)将其污染物传输至遵义市中心城区，冬季主要是大量燃煤的燃烧释放；夏季和秋季则主要来自植物的释放，其中秋季中的部分有机酸也受到华中和华东地区(其气团占秋季总量的45%)的远距离影响。而遵义市区的山间盆地地形、高湿度、高静风率和低风速、以尘埃为主的大气污染物和有机酸的短生命周期(几小时~几天)为有机酸来源于当地创造了有利条件。 (5) 根据热力学平衡计算新方法，发现遵义市pH≤5的降水中甲酸和乙酸对自由酸度的贡献分别为14.79% (范围：0.42~91.14%)、3.66% (范围：0.02~31.55%)。对比显示，遵义市的有机酸贡献量低于边远地区，主要由于遵义市降水的低pH值和高无机酸度所致。在春、夏、秋、冬季节，降水中的有机酸对自由酸度的平均贡献值分别为31.95%、26.16%、8.02%、11.17%，表明有机酸酸度有着明显的季节性差异，春季有机酸的高贡献量主要受降水中的有机酸高含量、低水温和高pH值的共同作用，夏季受高pH值的影响，而秋季和冬季的低贡献量主要受降水的低pH值所控制。 (6) 在遵义市的沉降通量中，无机离子的湿沉降通量占所有离子湿沉降总量的94%，并存在明显的季节性变化。SO42-、Ca2+、H+、NH4+、NO3-为最主要的贡献者，分别为90.1、49.8、47.3、26.0和19.2 mmol•m-2•yr-1。对比显示，SO42-、Ca2+、H+的沉降量均属于我国的高值区，而NO3-的沉降量属于我国中值区，NH4+的沉降量属我国低值水平。营养元素总无机氮TIN(TIN= NH4+ -N+ NO3- -N+ NO2- -N)的湿沉降总量为45.7 mmol•m-2•yr-1，其中NH4+和NO3-分别占TIN的57.0%和41.9%，遵义地区高TIN值当地氮肥的施用量和工业NOx的释放量密不可分；营养元素P的沉降量为1.97 mmol•m-2•yr-1，由于P的来源较少，促使P的湿沉降通量较低。有机酸占湿沉降总量的6%，其四季的湿沉降量顺序由高到低依次为：春>秋>冬>夏，这是有机离子的浓度和四季的降雨量共同作用的结果。根据气液平衡理论可知，挥发性有机酸(HCOO-、CH3COO-和CH3CH2COO-)的干沉降量占总沉降量的47.2%，表明遵义市有机酸沉降方式包括干湿沉降两种。因此在研究遵义市的污染物尤其是有机酸类对生态系统和城市建设的影响时，有必要同时收集气样和水样。

Removal of NO by microwave discharge with the addition of CH4

Removal of NO by a continuous microwave discharge at atmospheric pressure with the addition of CH4 is reported. The conversion of NO to N-2 is approximately 80%, and the energy efficiency is up to 0.55 g-NO/kWh. The effects of CH4 addition and three discharge modes on NO conversion and energy efficiency are investigated. The dependence of NO conversion on experimental time is also observed.

Properties and applications of injection locking in 1.55 μm quantum-dash mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Mode-locked semiconductor lasers are compact pulsed sources with ultra-narrow pulse widths and high repetition-rates. In order to use these sources in real applications, their performance needs to be optimised in several aspects, usually by external control. We experimentally investigate the behaviour of recently-developed quantum-dash mode-locked lasers (QDMLLs) emitting at 1.55 μm under external optical injection. Single-section and two-section lasers with different repetition frequencies and active-region structures are studied. Particularly, we are interested in a regime which the laser remains mode-locked and the individual modes are simultaneously phase-locked to the external laser. Injection-locked self-mode-locked lasers demonstrate tunable microwave generation at first or second harmonic of the free-running repetition frequency with sub-MHz RF linewidth. For two-section mode-locked lasers, using dual-mode optical injection (injection of two coherent CW lines), narrowing the RF linewidth close to that of the electrical source, narrowing the optical linewidths and reduction in the time-bandwidth product is achieved. Under optimised bias conditions of the slave laser, a repetition frequency tuning ratio >2% is achieved, a record for a monolithic semiconductor mode-locked laser. In addition, we demonstrate a novel all-optical stabilisation technique for mode-locked semiconductor lasers by combination of CW optical injection and optical feedback to simultaneously improve the time-bandwidth product and timing-jitter of the laser. This scheme does not need an RF source and no optical to electrical conversion is required and thus is ideal for photonic integration. Finally, an application of injection-locked mode-locked lasers is introduced in a multichannel phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA). We show that with dual-mode injection-locking, simultaneous phase-synchronisation of two channels to local pump sources is realised through one injection-locking stage. An experimental proof of concept is demonstrated for two 10 Gbps phase-encoded (DPSK) channels showing more than 7 dB phase-sensitive gain and less than 1 dB penalty of the receiver sensitivity.

Practice links [Issue 55, December 2013]

Practice Links is a free e-publication for practitioners working in Irish social services, voluntary and nongovernmental sectors. Practice Links was created to enable practitioners to keep up-to-date with new publications, electronic resources and conference opportunities. Issue 55 includes listings for upcoming conferences, resources to support practice, recent policy reports, organisational profiles as well as reviews of research publications.

A change in the zooplankton of the central North Sea (55 degree to 58 degree N): A possible consequence of changes in the benthos

The mesozooplankton taken in continuous plankton recorder samples from the Central North Sea has changed from being numerically dominated by holoplanktonic calanoid copepod species from 1958 to the late 1970s to a situation where pluteus larvae of echinoid and ophiuroid echinoderms have been more abundant than any single holoplanktonic species in the 1980s and early 1990s. The abundance of the echinoderm larvae as a proportion of the zooplankton taken in the samples has followed a continuous increasing trend over the Dogger Bank, but off the eastern coast of northern England and southern Scotland the increase did not become obvious until the 1980s. This trend is consistent with reported increases in abundance of the macrobenthos. It is proposed that changes in the benthos have influenced the composition of the plankton.

PLS modelling and fault detection on the Tennessee Eastman benchmark

This paper describes the application of multivariate regression techniques to the Tennessee Eastman benchmark process for modelling and fault detection. Two methods are applied : linear partial least squares, and a nonlinear variant of this procedure using a radial basis function inner relation. The performance of the RBF networks is enhanced through the use of a recently developed training algorithm which uses quasi-Newton optimization to ensure an efficient and parsimonious network; details of this algorithm can be found in this paper. The PLS and PLS/RBF methods are then used to create on-line inferential models of delayed process measurements. As these measurements relate to the final product composition, these models suggest that on-line statistical quality control analysis should be possible for this plant. The generation of `soft sensors' for these measurements has the further effect of introducing a redundant element into the system, redundancy which can then be used to generate a fault detection and isolation scheme for these sensors. This is achieved by arranging the sensors and models in a manner comparable to the dedicated estimator scheme of Clarke et al. 1975, IEEE Trans. Pero. Elect. Sys., AES-14R, 465-473. The effectiveness of this scheme is demonstrated on a series of simulated sensor and process faults, with full detection and isolation shown to be possible for sensor malfunctions, and detection feasible in the case of process faults. Suggestions for enhancing the diagnostic capacity in the latter case are covered towards the end of the paper.