15256 results about "Soil science" patented technology

A method for estimating and/or reducing uncertainty in reservoir models of potential petroleum reservoirs comprises receiving the results of a stochastic seismic inversion, and transforming the inversion data into a form suitable for reservoir modelling and flow simulations, while honoring inter-property and inter-layer correlations in the inversion data as well as measured well data and other geological constraints.

A model for determining the type of soil, the water content of a soil, and the soil properties, and a soil measurement data storage portion (60) to store therein measurement data necessary to carry out the model and correlated with specific measurement conditions are provided. The water content is measured by a water content measuring portion (57) on the basis of the measurement data fed from a soil sensor (S). The type of soil is determined by a feature extracting portion (56) and a type-of-soil determining portion (58), and the determined type of soil is sent to a determining portion (59). The determining portion (59) determines corresponding conditions and a model according to the type of soil and water content of the measured place received and sets them in a predetermined processing portion. The soil sensor feeds measurement data meeting the measurement conditions to a measurement information processing portion (55), and the processing portion (55) determines the soil properties according to the determined model.

The invention provides an organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following special steps of: at first, carrying out harmless treatment on raw materials of an organic fertilizer, such as livestock excrement, crop straws, kitchen garbage, fallen leaves, turf and peat, humic acid and the like, so as to obtain the organic fertilizer; then adding a macromolecule moisture retention material and an inorganic fertilizer at a certain ratio and uniformly stirring; and finally obtaining the organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer by extruding granulation. The organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer disclosed by the invention has functions of drought resistance and moisture retention, nutrient slow release and soil fertilization, so that the effects of increasing production and income of the crops are achieved. Furthermore, the organic/inorganic drought resisting compound fertilizer can effectively solve the environment pollution caused by the livestock excrement, straw burning and domestic garbage.

The invention discloses a method for biologically remediating a water body and soil comprehensively utilizing resources. The method comprises the steps: (1), determining main pollutants in a selected land area or water body area; (2), selecting to plant and/or cultivate fast-growing herbaceous plants, fast-growing alga, trees, bushes, fungi or microorganisms with high remediation efficiency in the selected land area or water body area; (3), harvesting or collecting the fast-growing herbaceous plants and the fast-growing alga after growing to reach a suitable height or size; (4), concentratedly processing the harvested or collected fast-growing herbaceous plants and the fast-growing alga, and comprehensively utilizing to prevent the pollutants from dispersing; (5), remediating an eutrophic water body by adopting an artificial floating island; (6), remediating a heavy metal polluted water body by confining floating plants; (7), repairing cadmium and zinc polluted soil by mixed-cropping festuca arundinacea and bluegrass; (8), remediating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) polluted soil by mixed-cropping alfalfa and italian ryegrass; and (9), extracting and recovering silver from silver-containing wastewater remediation plants.

The invention relates to a soil slope water flow erosion resistance simulation test method and device. The device comprises a liftable slope simulation device, a sheetflood scouring simulation device, a water and soil collecting device, a flow velocity determining device and a slope surface form camera device. According to the test method, the water flow is controlled, surface flow and seepage are formed, and sheetflood water, seepage water and sediment quantity formed by scouring slopes by sheetflood water are collected. The flow, the flow velocity, the erosion depth, the sand yield and the like of the water flow are measured quantitatively. Compacted soil is soaked in water until saturation for simulation, the efficiency of an indoor simulation test on slope scouring is improved, the test period is shortened, the test result proves the maximum depth of a slope erosion gully and the change rule of the sand yield with time, discloses the relation between the water flow erosion capacity of catchment behind slopes and the slope length, gradient and time and provides a basis for prediction of the water flow erosion scale and the need of slope protection and reinforcement. The device is simple in structure, convenient to operate and suitable for measurement of soil mechanics parameters of slope soil mass.

The invention discloses a passivating agent for governing heavy metal contaminated soil and a preparation and use method of the passivating agent. The passivating agent comprises, in weight percent, 30%-50% of clay minerals, 10%-20% of phosphate, 10%-15% of reducing agents, 10%-15% of sulfide and 15%-20% of alkaline substances. The preparation method includes a step: mixing the clay minerals, the phosphate, the reducing agents, the sulfide and the alkaline substances to mix to obtain the passivating agent. The use method includes the steps: firstly, crushing the heavy metal contaminated soil; secondly, adding the passivating agent into the crushed heavy metal contaminated soil; thirdly, adding water into the crushed heavy metal contaminated soil added the passivating agent to uniformly mix, maintaining the uniformly mixed soil on site, and enabling the passivating agent and heavy metal in the soil to sufficiently react. The passivating agent can effectively meet the urgent requirements of current Chinese heavy metal contaminated soil for high stability, no secondary pollution, durable and stable effect and low cost.

Disclosed is a method for soft soil foundation treatment through microorganism grouting sand drain. The method comprises the steps that a, a pile hole 1 is formed in a soft soil foundation to be treated, and sand is poured into the pile hole 1 to form a sand pile; b, a urease-producing microorganism solution 9 and a nutritive salt solution 10 are sequentially and evenly injected into the sand pile through a grouting tube 6, sand cementation is achieved through the microorganism induction calcium carbonate crystal technology, the concentration of the urease-producing microorganism solution 9 and the concentration of the nutritive salt solution 10 are controlled, sand in the pile body forms a specific cementation mode, and the good water permeable characteristic is ensured; c, after the microorganism grouting solidification sand pile is formed, a flexible water permeable sand cushion 4 is laid on the top of the foundation jointly formed by the sand oil and pile space soil 2, prepressing loads 5 are exerted on the top of the flexible water permeable sand cushion 4, pore water in the pile space soil 2 is made to be drained along a drainage channel formed by the sand pile and the sand cushion, the pile space soil is solidified, and the composite foundation with the high bearing capacity is formed jointly through the soft soil obtained after drainage and solidification are carried out on the microorganism grouting sand pile and the flexible water permeable sand cushion covering the soft soil.

The invention discloses a restoration agent for lowering cadmium/lead effective state content in soil, which is composed of quicklime, calcium sulfate, wood charcoal, iron chloride and water, wherein the weight ratio of the quicklime, calcium sulfate, wood charcoal and iron chloride is (1-2):(1-2):(1-2):(0.5-1), and the water accounts for 30-45 wt% of the soil. The restoration agent can be used for treating heavily polluted soil; and common chemical passivators can only restore lightly polluted soil, and do not have obvious effect on heavy pollution. The restoration agent can be used for treating both acidic soil and neutral soil. The restoration agent has high remediation efficiency for cadmium polluted soil; the reaction mechanisms relate to chemical precipitation and physical adsorption; and when one action fails due to change of the outside conditions, the other action can perform the guarantee function. The restoration agent has certain control actions on the lead effective state content in the polluted soil.

The invention discloses a soil one-dimensional consolidation, penetration, stressing relaxation combined test instrument and usage, which posits punch inside a punch cavity at the bottom of pressure container. It can do consolidation and compression to the same soil sample K0, it also can do soil sample penetration test and stressing relaxation test directly and simultaneously. It can test the soil sample's value of coefficient of static lateral pressure K0 and the process of pore water pressure followed by time. The test instrument and method can arrange soil's consolidation characteristic parameter by test outcome and using theoretical formula penetration method. It can do soil's theological behavior analysis by the outcome of stressing relaxation test.

An agricultural planting system and method comprising a soil sampling and analysis means, wherein soil samples are taken and analyzed in real-time during a planting operation (or, optionally, via a separate, prior operation) to determine the conditions and nutrient content of the soil, and a planting system, wherein the planting system is capable of planting seeds in any arbitrary position on an X-Y plane directly beneath the planting system, whereby the data gathered from the analyzed soil samples is used to determine the optimal placement of seeds or plants in a field in order to take advantage of the soil conditions present and to optimize crop yield.

The invention relates to a subsurface flow simulating and predictive analysis method which comprises the following steps of: dynamically observing and collecting groundwater date of a mining area, integrating the groundwater data into a graphic workstation by utilizing a data engine, automatically establishing a finite element mesh model of the dynamic water level of each water layer, and determining parameter partitions and corresponding parameter values so as to realize the dynamic analog of water level of the water layer and the simulation of groundwater migration; and carrying out the simulation of a groundwater seepage field and the dynamic and real-time simulation of aquifer in designed software and hardware environments, and carrying out interactive analysis, prediction and evaluation on various models in the VR environment and the WEB environment by using tools such as interactive operation, information inquiry, and the like. The method can provide the scientific basis of reasonably developing and utilizing water resources for the future development and the evolution tendency of groundwater resources, and achieves low overall cost, easy popularization and use as well as flexible and reliable operation.

This invention relates to compositions compatible with liquid fertilizers and methods of use thereof.

The invention discloses a method for producing a biocarbon-based slow-release nitrogen fertilizer, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: thermal cracking or gasifying corn straw, or apple tree waste branch, trunk and wood chip to obtain the biocarbon; mixing the biocarbon and an ammonium nitrate solution, or urea and the ammonium nitrate solution, fully stirring and drying, or adding a binder with 1-3% of total amount and sending to a granulation system for granulation, then drying to obtain the biocarbon-based slow-release nitrogen fertilizer product. The fertilizer has the advantages of simple and easy preparation technology, and low cost. The biocarbon-based slow-release nitrogen fertilizer contains 10-12% of nitrogen, the biocarbon carrier material is stable in soil, and is a good soil amendment and a carbon sequestration agent, soil is applied for improving soil fertilization, the nitrogen element of the nitrogenous fertilizer loaded by the biocarbon has slow-release effect, so that the loss of the nitrogen element can be reduced, the nitrogenous fertilizer utilization rate can be enhanced; the biocarbon can retain in soil for long-term to play the effects of carbon sequestration and carbon emission reduction, the biocarbon is helpful for alleviating climate warming, and biocarbon-based slow-release nitrogen fertilizer is a green fertilizer.

The invention discloses a soil conditioner produced from ardealite as well as a producing method and a using method of the soil conditioner. The soil conditioner contains ardealite, humic acid, ferrous sulfate, urea and sulfuric acid which are mixed and shaped to granules. The soil conditioner is produced from ardealite which is the main raw material and added with a certain amount of nutrient elements and has the characteristics of conditioning the soil structure, adjusting pH of soil, activating the activity of nutrient elements of the soil, supplementing trace elements such as calcium, sulphur, ferrum and zinc in the soil, and the like; and the soil conditioner is suitable to conditioning of saline-alkali soil. The soil conditioner has the advantages of lowering the pH of surface soil, the content of water-soluble Na<+> and exchangeable Na<+> in the soil, the alkalisation degree and the volume weight of the soil, and enhancing the soil infiltration, the utilization rate of fertilizers and the soil productivity. A method for conditioning saline-alkali land, which is effective, economical, practical and consistent with the actual situations, is successfully proposed.

The environmentally safe filtration control agent for drilling fluids is an additive for aqueous drilling fluids to reduce the loss of fluids from the mud cake to the pores of the formation during the drilling of oil and gas wells. The additive may be powdered grass formed by drying grass and grinding the dried grass to micron-sized particles; date seed powder formed by grinding the seeds of date plants to micron-sized particles; or grass ash powder formed by dried grass burnt in a furnace and ground to micron-sized particles. The filtration control agent is generally present in the drilling fluid as a concentration between 0.25 ppb and 2 ppb, optimally between 1.0 ppb and 2.0 ppb, depending on the agent. An exemplary drilling fluid includes water, bentonite, and the fluid control agent.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a functional organic fertilizer for soil restoration. The method comprises the following steps: mixing crushed straws with blue-green algae according to the mass ratio of (1-5):10 to obtain a mixture, and then adding a biomass-transformed complex microbial inoculant and a biomass-transformed inductive material to the mixture; evenly mixing and then carrying out conventional stacking fermentation for 5-15 days, so as to obtain a semi-solid organic fertilizer; and mixing and pelletizing the semi-solid organic fertilizer, clay, biomass carbon ash and a heavy metal ion chelating agent according to the ratio of 1000:(50-200):(50-150):(1-5), so as to obtain the functional organic fertilizer for soil restoration. The organic fertilizer disclosed by the invention has a persistent slow-release fertilizer effect, and can adsorb, chelate and immobilize the heavy metal ions in a deactivation manner, soil fleeciness is facilitated, the moisture retention and the breathability are improved, rooting of plants is facilitated, formation of beneficial components of soil microelements and the like is optimized, the heavy metal-polluted soil is effectively restored, and secondary pollution of the soil is not caused.

A soil parameter measurement arrangement includes a capacitive based soil moisture and salinity sensor, a predetermined moisture migration medium located in a volume adjacent said sensor so that the medium substantially occupies the field of influence of said sensor. The medium is in moisture communication with the soil to be measured, and said sensor is adapted to measure and produce data representative of the volumetric water content of said medium. A sensor data processing means determines both the soil moisture and salinity of said medium. By using the measured volumetric soil moisture content and the moisture release curve of the medium, it is possible to derive the matric potential of the soil. The measured salinity of the medium corresponds to the salinity of the soil that is in moisture communication with the medium.

The invention discloses a method for evaluating compressibility of a shale gas reservoir. The method sequentially comprises the following steps of (1) calculating a shale brittleness index Brit, (2), calculating a shale fracture toughness index Kn, (3), calculating a natural weak plane opening facility index Pn, (4), calculating a natural weak plane penetrated index Cn, (5), introducing a complex seam net probability index Fcf and a transforming volume probability index Fsrv, and determining a reservoir compressibility index FI, (6), according to the size of the reservoir compressibility index FI, evaluating the compressibility of a block shale reservoir. According to the method, various compressibility influence factors are considered, and particularly on the basis of a seam net forming mechanism, the influence of the natural weak plane is fully considered; the shortcomings of an existing evaluation method are overcome, and logging data are utilized for calculating brittleness and breaking toughness of the shale gas reservoir; and the dependency on experimental data is reduced. The method is used for evaluating the reservoir quality of a fractured well, has feasibility and accuracy and provides a new decision making method for facture well selecting and layer selecting of the shale gas reservoir.

Methods for optimizing petroleum reservoir analysis and sampling using a real-time component wherein heterogeneities in fluid properties exist. The methods help predict the recovery performance of oil such as, for example, heavy oil, which can be adversely impacted by fluid property gradients present in the reservoir. Additionally, the methods help optimize sampling schedules of the reservoir, which can reduce overall expense and increase sampling efficiency. The methods involve the use of analytical techniques for accurately predicting one or more fluid properties that are not in equilibrium in the reservoir. By evaluating the composition of downhole fluid samples taken from the reservoir using sensitive analytical techniques, an accurate base model of the fluid property of interest can be produced. With the base model in hand, real-time data can be obtained and compared to the base model in order to further define the fluid property of interest in the reservoir.

The present invention determines one or more properties of a soil sample by scanning a soil sample using a visible near infrared diffuse reflectance diffuse reflectance (VisNIR) spectroradiometer, scanning the soil sample using a x-ray fluorescence (PXRF) spectrometer, receiving a diffuse reflectance spectra from the VisNIR spectroradiometer and an elemental data from the PXRF spectrometer, determining one or more properties of the soil sample using one or more processors and a predictive model that relates the diffuse reflectance spectra and the elemental data to the one or more properties, and providing the one or more properties of the soil sample to one or more input/output interface.

The invention relates to a method for remediating cadmium contaminated soil of a vegetable field in situ by compounding bio-charcoal and an organic fertilizer. The method comprises the following steps of: applying a passivation material obtained by compounding the bio-charcoal and the organic fertilizer in a mass ratio of 1:1 to a surface layer of soil of a cadmium contaminated vegetable field, fully and uniformly mixing the passivation material and the soil in a plowing layer with the thickness of 0 to 20cm, judging the contamination level of the soil according to environmental quality standard for soils GB15618-1995, and ensuring that the application rate of the passivation material is not less than 0.5 percent of the weight of dry soil, namely 750kg/mu when the cadmium concentration of the soil is 1.0 to 2.9mg/kg. The invention has the advantages that: raw materials of the passivation material are wide in source and low in cost, the application method is simple and has a remarkable effect of remediating the cadmium in the soil in a passivation way, and the risk of secondary contamination is avoided; and the bio-charcoal is applied into the soil, so the passivation material has the effects of reducing the discharge of greenhouse gas of farmland ecosystems, increasing the content of organic carbon of the soil, improving soil structures and the like, and has huge popularization and application value.

A method and apparatus for the hydraulic removal of bitumen from a tar sand deposit comprises forming a borehole into the tar sand deposit and securing a casing into the borehole. Into the casing is inserted a mining tool having a water/diluent channel and a slurry exit channel. Through the casing the borehole is charged with crushed aggregate. At the lower end of the tool are nozzles through which high pressure hot water/diluent is injected as a jet from the water/diluent channel into the tar sand deposit causing a cavity to form in the tar sand deposit. The heat of the water/diluent jets and dissolving action of the diluent softens the tar sand contacted and the impact of the jets and the scouring action of the aggregate, as impinged upon by the jets, removes the tar sand from the surface of the developing cavity into a water phase. A bitumen/diluent phase rises to the surface of the water phase and is removed from the cavity through the casing. A water sand slurry at the bottom of the developing cavity is removed from the slurry exit channel where sand is subsequently removed and the water is recovered and reintroduced back into the process along with makeup water and diluent. Water temperature and pressures are controlled to optimize the hydraulic mining process.

The invention provides a soil heavy metal composite passivating agent, comprising the following raw materials in percentage by mass of: 25% of slaked lime, 10-20% of monopotassium phosphate, 20-45% of plant ash and 20-45% of silkworm excrement. With the adoption of the soil heavy metal composite passivating agent disclosed by the invention, compared with a control group, an effective state lead content of the soil polluted by heavy metal is reduced by 20.23-47.61% within culture time of 30 days, and an effective state cadmium content is reduced by 20.15-50.57%; the passivating effect of the soil heavy metal composite passivating agent on the heavy metal is extremely obvious; and meanwhile, compared with the control group, the content of organic matters is improved by 48.62-64.47%, and the soil fertility is obviously improved. A method disclosed by the invention is applicable to repairing large-area heavy metal polluted soil and comprises the steps of repairing a heavy metal polluted farmland and repairing a heavy metal polluted mine; and the method has the advantages of lower cost, rapidness for repairing, simplicity in operation, feasible method and extremely great popularization value.

Disclosed is a simulating system used for a shield tunnel synchronous grouting test. The system includes model soil, model grout and a synchronous grouting simulating test platform. The model grout is injected into the model soil through the synchronous grouting simulating test platform. The synchronous grouting simulating test platform includes a soil box, a data acquisition system, a loading system, a shield propulsion control system, a simulating shield tunneling machine, pressure sensors and a grouting system. The simulating shield tunneling machine and the model soil are arranged in the soil box. The invention also discloses a test method which uses the simulating system used for the shield tunnel synchronous grouting test. The method includes: 1) preparing the model soil; 2) preparing the model grout; 3) constructing a shield-soil-grout similar system to carry out synchronous grouting tests of different grouting positions, different grouting holes and different grouting quantity allocation proportions.

The invention discloses a revegetation method for mine slopes, which includes steps: firstly, clearing a slope to remove impurities on the slope; secondly, configuring planting material, namely selecting planting soil, peat soil, turf fibers, slow release fertilizer, fast release fertilizer, super absorbent polymers and adhesive prior to well mixing, and using the mixture as the reserve material; thirdly, constructing a planting-bag cofferdam planter, namely using planting bags filled with the planting material to construct the bird's nest shaped planter on a local concave lot of the slope; fourthly, performing material spraying, namely fastening anchor bolts on a non-planter portion of the slope, hanging a metal net on the anchor bolts, spraying the planting material to the metal net, mixing plant seeds with surface soil on the surrounding mountain land to obtain mixture, and using a sprayer to spray the mixture to the planting material; fifthly, planting a seedling in the planter; and sixthly, replanting material-type containerized seedlings. The revegetation method is low in cost, great economic benefits are obtained by using the method, and a composite revegetation process based on arbors and shrubs and combination of arbors, shrubs and grasses is built.

The invention discloses a process of preparing a pig manure bio-organic fertilizer by a microbial fermentation method. The process comprises the following step: by taking the pig manure as a raw material and supplementing straws, earthworm cast, seaweeds, and the like, performing a two-step fermentation process of a biological fermenting agent to prepare the pig manure bio-organic fertilizer. The process is high in resource utilization degree, easy for large-scale industrial production, beneficial to realizing resource utilization of live pig breeding wastes and capable of a pig breeding environmental pollution problem at present. The pig manure bio-organic fertilizer has the effects of the bio-organic fertilizer and the seaweed fertilizer, is rich in functional active ingredients of seaweeds and a large number of probiotics, capable of effectively regulating equilibrium of microorganisms in soil, decomposing organic or inorganic components such as organic substances and mineral substances in the soil, eliminating soil hardening, desertification, salinization and the like caused by abuse of a chemical fertilizer throughout the year, increasing the yield of crops, and has the special effects of improving the quality of the crops and improving the stress resistance of the crops. Besides, the pig manure bio-organic fertilizer is long in acting period, and is an ideal fertilizer for developing green ecological agriculture.

An irrigation modeling framework in precision agriculture utilizes a combination of weather data, crop data, and other agricultural inputs to create customized agronomic models for diagnosing and predicting a moisture state in a field, and a corresponding need for, and timing of, irrigation activities. Specific combinations of various agricultural inputs can be applied, together with weather information to identify or adjust water-related characteristics of crops and soils, to model optimal irrigation activities and provide advisories, recommendations, and scheduling guidance for targeted application of artificial precipitation to address specific moisture conditions in a soil system of a field.

Increasing longevity of the nitrogen content of soil through improved liquid delivery formulations of urease inhibitors and/or nitrification inhibitors designed to apply to fertilizers, especially urea and manure based fertilizers These delivery formulations provide an environmentally sound and inherently safe solvating system that improves the storage stability of the urease inhibitors by utilizing aprotic solvents, maintain the urease inhibitors and/or nitrification inhibitors in solution to storage temperatures of at least 10° C. and provides improved application to fertilizer of urease and/or nitrification inhibitors. These delivery formulations enable safe storage, transport and subsequent application or blending with urea based or manure based fertilizers that can be applied to soil in either a liquid or granular form to provide improved nitrogen retention in the soil for uptake for plant life.

The invention discloses a multiple-stratum-series tight sandstone gas reservoir well spacing method. The method includes the following steps that first, based on high-resolution sequence stratigraphy, distribution of sand bodies is depicted, an effective reservoir stratum is predicted through the earthquake and well logging technology, and an enrichment region is preferentially selected; second, based on a favorable region, a longitudinal structure of the sand bodies is fine dissected through the geology and well logging technology, and therefore the horizontal distribution law of the sand bodies can be researched; third, in the preferential favorable region, well spacing is performed according to conditions. The well spacing method is reasonable and takes the complex geology that multiple gas-bearing series longitudinally develop in an upper palaeozoic tight sandstone gas reservoir, the single layer yield is low and the lateral variety of the reservoir stratum is fast into consideration, the drilling success of a development well can be guaranteed, the development effect can be improved to the maximum extent, and the economical and effective development of the tight sandstone gas reservoir is achieved.

The invention relates to rice fertilizer capable of improving the resistance, quality and yield of rice. The rice fertilizer consists of the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 20.0 to 27.0 percent of urea, 7.0 to 20.0 percent of ammonium sulfate, 5.0 to 13.0 percent of monoammonium phosphate, 9.8 to 17.5 percent of potassium chloride, 10.0 to 18.5 percent of calcium superphosphate, 3.0 to 6.0 percent of calcium-magnesium phosphate, 2.0 to 8.0 percent of soluble silicon, 0.1 to 0.9 percent of amino acid, 5.0 to 30.0 percent of humic acid, 0.5 to 6.0 percent of other trace elements (zinc, manganese, boron, ferrum, copper, molybdenum, selenium and the like), 0.2 to 0.5 percent of activating agent and less than or equal to 2.5 percent of water. The rice fertilizer has the advantages of comprehensively providing the nutrient required by growth of rice, improving the yield and the quality of rice, activating the nutrient of soil, enhancing the capacity of absorbing nutrient by crops, improving a soil structure, enhancing soil fertility, promoting development, and improving the resistance of the crops (disease resistance, pest resistance, drought resistance, flooding resistance, cold resistance, saline-alkaline resistance, lodging resistance and the like).