气泡流的应用,以控制海洋基础设施上的生物污染 - - 轮级的实施
Grant A Hopkins1, Nicholas Scott1, Patrick Cahill1
1Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand.
PeerJ
|September 13, 2023
概括
连续的泡流有效地抑制了两个月的人工结构上的海洋生物污染. 对于静态基础设施的长期生物污染管理,需要进一步的系统改进.
科学领域:
- 海洋生物学 海洋生物学
- 环境工程 环境工程
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
背景情况:
- 海洋生物污染对静态的人工结构构成重大挑战.
- 现有的管理工具往往缺乏成本效益和环保性.
- 新兴技术的运营规模测试对于其采用至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估连续泡泡流在管理人工结构上的海洋生物污染的有效性.
- 在现实运行条件下评估泡流的性能.
- 确定生物污染控制的气泡流技术的局限性和改进领域.
主要方法:
- 在现场清理沉没的码头浮标表面.
- 在经过处理的断面上部署连续的气泡流.
- 监测和比较四个月的处理和未处理表面的生物污染积累.
主要成果:
- 泡流在最初两个月实现了>95%的宏观污染控制.
- 由于生物污染掩盖了扩散器,效率下降.
- 经过四个月的时间,经过处理的表面比未经处理的表面 (79.6%) 有明显较低的生物污染覆盖率 (27.5%).
结论:
- 持续的泡流显示出短期到中期海洋生物污染抑制的前景.
- 系统设计,特别是防扩散器,需要提高长期可行性.
- 这项技术可以为管理海洋基础设施的生物污染提供一个具有成本效益和环保的解决方案.
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