The Southwest CO2 Training Center was initiated in November 2009 in response to the need to develop a generation of workers with expertise in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). Three universities ran the Training Center cooperatively: New Mexico Tech, the University of Utah and Texas A&M University. The overall approach of the Training Center was to conduct education and outreach at a wide range of educational levels, including K-12 students and teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, and the general public. Key activities included: (1) Outreach targeted development of a video game (Carbon Bond) for middle-school students. (2) A summer program for high-school students. (3) Training for K-12 educators in Utah with a program by the Keystone center on the Climate Status and two offerings of a Masters of Science Teaching class at New Mexico Tech (NMT) on Climate and Carbon Sequestration. (3) Development and approval of an undergraduate curriculum for a concentration in CCUS for geology majors offered at the Earth and Environmental Science Department at NMT. This included a new course in Carbon Sequestration Science and a field course in Reservoir and Caprock Geology. (4) A new graduate-level course in CCUS was developed and offered via distance education to students at the University of Utah (U of U), NMT and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). (5) Professional training via a reservoir modeling class, opening up the university courses to professionals, and conducting three webinars on outreach and public perception in CCUS.

关键词：空气污染；空气污染控制；二氧化碳

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Because the International Space Station is a closed environment with rotations of astronauts and equipment that each introduce their own microbial flora, it is necessary to monitor the air, surfaces, and water for microbial contamination. Current microbial monitoring includes labor- and time-intensive methods to enumerate total bacterial and fungal cells, with limited characterization, during in-flight testing. Although this culture-based method is sufficient for monitoring the International Space Station, on future long-duration missions more detailed characterization will need to be performed during flight, as sample return and ground characterization may not be available. At a workshop held in 2011 at NASA's Johnson Space Center to discuss alternative methodologies and technologies suitable for microbial monitoring for these long-term exploration missions, molecular-based methodologies such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were recommended. In response, a multi-center (Marshall Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Kennedy Space Center) collaborative research effort was initiated to explore novel commercial-off-the-shelf hardware options for space flight environmental monitoring. The goal was to evaluate quantitative or semi-quantitative PCR approaches for low-cost in-flight rapid identification of microorganisms that could affect crew safety. The initial phase of this project identified commercially available platforms that could be minimally modified to perform nominally in microgravity. This phase was followed by proof-of-concept testing of the highest qualifying candidates with a universally available challenge organism, Salmonella enterica. The analysis identified two technologies that were able to perform sample-to-answer testing with initial cell sample concentrations between 50 and 400 cells.

关键词：封闭的生态系统；环境监测；持续时间长太空飞行；微生物；病原体

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Colourimetric sensors and indicators are widely used because of their low cost and simplicity. A significant challenge associated with the design of this type of device is that the sensing mechanism must be simultaneously optimised for the sensitivity of the response and a visually perceptible colour change. Structural colour, derived from coherent scattering rather than molecular absorption, is a promising route to colourimetric sensor design because colour shifts are tied to changes in one of many physical properties of a material, rather than a specific chemical process. This Feature Article presents an overview of the development of low-cost sensors and indicators that exploit structural colour. Building upon recent advances in structurally adaptive materials design, structural colour sensors have been developed for a wide variety of previously inaccessible physical (e.g. temperature, strain, electric fields) and chemical stimuli (e.g. small organic molecules, charged species, biomacromolecules and metabolites). These devices, often exceeding the state of the art in performance, simplicity or both, have bright prospects for market impact in areas such as environmental monitoring, workplace hazard identification, threat detection, and point-of-care diagnostics. Finding the ideal balance between performance (e.g. sensitivity, specificity, reproducibility, etc.) and simplicity (e.g. colourimetric vs. spectroscopic readout) will be one of the most critical elements in the further development of structural colour sensors. This balance should be driven largely by the market demands and competing technologies.

关键词：比色分析法；比色法；探测器；色度传感器；环境监测

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for risk reduction and cleanup of its nuclear weapons complex. DOE maintains the largest cleanup program in the world, currently spanning over a million acres in 13 states. The inventory of contaminated materials includes 90 million gallons of radioactive waste, 6.4 trillion liters of groundwater, and 40 million cubic meters of soil and debris. It is not feasible to completely restore many sites to predisposal conditions. Any contamination left in place will require monitoring, engineering controls and/or land use restrictions to protect human health and environment. Research and development efforts to date have focused on improving characterization and remediation. Yet, monitoring will result in the largest life-cycle costs and will be critical to improving performance and protection. Through an inter-disciplinary effort, DOE is addressing a need to advance monitoring approaches from sole reliance on cost- and labor-intensive point-source monitoring to integrated systems-based approaches such as flux-based approaches and the use of early indicator parameters. Key objectives include identifying current scientific, technical and implementation opportunities and challenges, prioritizing science and technology strategies to meet current needs within the DOE complex for the most challenging environments, and developing an integrated and risk-informed monitoring framework.

关键词：环境评估；监控；清洁；污染

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Real-time chemical vapor detection and analysis have broad applications in environmental monitoring, homeland security, military surveillance, and biomedical diagnosis. As an emerging new sensing technology, optical micro-ring resonator has unique advantages in developing low-cost and portable vapor sensors. This chapter introduces ring resonator vapor sensing principles, describes representative micro-ring resonator vapor sensor designs and performances, and then focuses on one special micro-ring resonator design—the optofiuidic ring resonator (OFRR), which inherently integrates the ring resonator vapor sensor and gas fluidics. The OFRR sensor has fast response to a wide spectrum of vapor analytes, with a detection limit of around 100pg. Moreover, the OFRR is a versatile sensing platform that can be integrated with micro-gas chromatography (μGC) for rapid and in situ identification of organic chemical compounds (VOCs) in complex interfering vapor mixtures. Combination with a μGC system greatly enhances the vapor detection specificity, which is one of the major limitations in optical vapor sensors. Applications of the OFRR-μGC in detection of explosives and rapid tandem-column separation of VOCs are also presented. Future research/development directions in the ring resonator vapor sensor are discussed in the end.

关键词：化学气相检测；生物医学；环境监测；环形谐振器

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关键词：化学；生物；实验室级芯片；环境监测

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2013年中国战略性新兴产业总体呈现良好发展态势，保持了相对较快的产业增速。展望2014年，全球经济将延续缓慢复苏的步伐，而中国转经济、调结构也进入攻坚期和深水区，战略性新兴产业有望迎来快速发展的最佳契机，成为引领经济增长的重要引擎。

关键词：节能环保；新一代信息技术；生物；高端装备制造；新能源；新材料；新能源汽车

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Fiber- reinforced polymer composites (FRP) are an attractive repair option for existing concrete structures. CDOT has used this material on some projects, in particular the repair of the Castlewood Canyon Bridge in 2003. Further use of the material is limited by the lack of data about its long-term performance. Laboratory durability studies have indicated that FRP performs well in conditions such as water and salt water baths, but it is difficult to fully capture field environments in the lab. This project evaluated the condition of the FRP on the Castlewood Canyon Bridge through onsite inspection and pull-off tests, and by bringing FRP back to the labs at CSU to test the tensile strength. Conclusions about the FRP condition are limited by the lack of baseline data, but there does appear to be some deterioration over time. This project also considers the influence of deicing agents on FRP properties through laboratory testing that has been initiated. Implementation: Based on results available at this time it is recommended that CDOT monitor the durability of future FRP applications through a more systematic process in which baseline data is collected and maintained and inspections including material testing are conducted at shorter intervals, perhaps every two to three years.

关键词：混凝土；力学性能；环境影响；环境监测

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Catalytic processes are today practiced on a vast scale to convert basic feedstocks (today largely petroleum, gas, and coal based) into fuels, plastics, agricultural chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, paints/coatings, and numerous other materials that underpin our economy and well-being. Catalysts are also used extensively to provide a cleaner environment by treating automotive and industrial (e.g., power plant) exhausts and water-borne effluents. Indeed, it has been estimated that more than 50of the US GDP derives from catalytic processes. In the past several years, it has become apparent that the US energy supply and demand picture has shifted dramatically, and that a major scientific research and development effort must be mounted to maintain US economic leadership and our quality of life. The challenges are to use and convert more abundant, lower cost/lower quality, and more sustainable feedstocks into the products we need with unprecedented energy- and atom-efficiency. The need to develop more efficient, cleaner and greener catalytic processes is grand challenge of national import.

关键词：空气污染；西北大学；清洁催化工艺；技术报告

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本刊以七大战略性新兴产业——节能环保、新一代信息技术、生物、高端装备制造、新能源、新材料、新能源汽车为研究重点，关注国家高层和各部委的动态，剖析国家和地方的新兴产业政策。本刊设有政策导读、领导讲话、七大战略性新兴产业本周国内外行业动态和重点企业新闻、投资专题四大板块，能够实时监测新兴产业和重点企业动态，把握新兴产业发展方向，研究发展重点，寻求发展机遇。

关键词：节能环保；新一代信息技术；生物；高端装备制造；新能源；新材料；新能源汽车

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