The WMS KOR250 (INSPIRE) in the scale of 1:250,000 shows occurrences and deposits of mineral resources in Germany, which lie close to the Earth’s surface, i.e. can be mined in open-pits, quarries or near-surface mines. These mineral resources include industrial minerals, aggregates, peat, lignite, oil shales, and natural brines. The map is derived from the KOR250, the digital successor of the map series KOR200 „Map of Near-Surface Deposits of the Federal Republic of Germany 1:200,000”, which has been published since 1984. The KOR200 and KOR250 have been published by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources together with the State Geological Surveys of the federal states on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Primary purpose of the KOR250 is to display Germany’s potential of domestic raw materials in a comparable way. The explanations given in the printed booklets accompanying the KOR200 are not available in the digital KOR250. In the KOR250 besides the defined deposits and differently coloured areas of raw materials, "active mines" (= operations) at time of publication or "focal points of several active mines" are marked with one symbol each. These mines are not included in the KOR250 (INSPIRE) as often the headquarters of the mining company and not the mining site itself is displayed as well as in many regions the dataset is outdated. As the map sheets of the KOR200 have been generated over more than three decades the timeliness of data is extremely different. For more detail, the current large-scale raw material maps of the Federal State Geological Surveys should always be consulted. The point data displayed in KOR250 (INSPIRE) indicate very small, but worth mentioning prospects of certain raw materials. The WMS KOR250 (INSPIRE) contains the two layers MR.MineralOccurence.Commodity.Polygon (mineral resources as polygons) and MR.MineralOccurence.Commodity.Point (mineral resources as points). Via the getFeatureInfo request the user obtains additional information on the mineral resources. Notes: The colouring of the raw material occurrences in the KOR250 (INSPIRE) largely corresponds to the colouring of the original KOR250. In the INSPIRE Data Specification on Mineral Resources (D2.8.III.21) there are no portrayal rules for building raw materials and dimension stones, which constitute a large part of the raw material occurrences. It should be noted that according to the INSPIRE commodity code list, most magmatites and metamorphites were assigned to the two values "granite" and "basalt". From a geological point of view and with regard to its origin, this assignment is often misleading. For more information on the outcropping rock of a specific raw material occurrence, the German name from the original KOR250 was mapped to the attribute name of the class GeologicFeature.
Die Hecking Deotexis GmbH ist ein 150 Jahre altes, mittelständisch geprägtes Textilunternehmen am Standort Neuenkirchen. Das Unternehmen stellt Oberbekleidungsstoffe für Damen und Herren her. Es verfügt über eine Weberei, Färberei und Ausrüstung. So werden u. a. Baumwolle und Elastomerfäden mit Reaktivfarbstoffen und Pigmenten gefärbt. Eine Besonderheit ist die Indigo-Kettfärbeanlage für Jeans. Die Firma plant die Errichtung einer neuen Anlage, wo die konzentrierten Abwässer aus der Färberei von Baumwollwebware mit Hilfe eines Ozonungsverfahren entfärbt und praktisch vollständig wieder verwendet werden sollen. Dazu sollen die konzentrierten Farbabwässer aus den verschiedenen Behandlungsstufen zusammengeführt und in einem Reaktor mit Ozon entfärbt werden. Die Ozonungsanlage wird in eine neue betriebliche Anlage integriert. Die Wiederverwendung des entfärbten Abwassers kann allerdings wegen der Aufkonzentrierung der Salze nicht im kompletten Kreislauf stattfinden. Die eine Hälfte soll als Waschwasser wieder in die Farbnachwäsche gehen, d.h. im eigentlichen Färbeprozess wieder eingesetzt werden, die andere Hälfte soll für innerbetriebliche Prozesse wie das Reinigen von Gefäßen und Ansatzbehältern genutzt werden. Dieses hat eindeutige Vorteile gegenüber den herkömmlichen Verfahren. So ist kein Einsatz zusätzlicher Chemikalien notwendig, es erfolgt eine Verringerung der anfallenden Klärschlammmenge und eine Einsparung von über 5000 Kubikmeter Frischwasser pro Jahr. Auch die kommunale Kläranlage, in die die Färbeabwässer bislang ungeklärt eingeleitet wurden, wird deutlich entlastet. Allerdings liegt der Energiebedarf bei der Ozonung höher, soll aber durch eine Optimierung des Verfahrens gesenkt werden.
Stoffdruckereien fabrizieren ein fuerchterliches Abwasser, das z.B. in den USA den im Ablaufgebiet liegenden Farmen schwere Schaeden zufuegt.
Scientists from the Palestinian authority, Israel and Germany, all involved in different aspects of analytical research, have joined in order to conduct an environmental study, which aims to understand the fate of selected contaminants in a model ecosystem. For this purpose, two typical terrestrial sites in the Middle East, one in the Palestinian authority and the other in Israel, have been selected, comprising a partially polluted area and a natural reserve as a reference. In these areas, the fate (chemical and physical transformations) of typical pollutants such as heavy metals (Pb, Cu, Zn, Cd, Fe), metalloids (As, Sn, Sb), organic dyes and air contaminants (O3, NOx, SO2) will be studied. This will also involve the determination of all the environmental conditions for the chemical transformation, which should shed some light on the dynamics of the ecosystems. At the same time novel inexpensive sensors and analytical procedures will be developed, which are necessary for the analysis of contaminants in this area. The goals will be accomplished by combined efforts of all partners.
The structural polysaccharides cellulose and chitin of plants, fungi, and arthropods are major components of organic matter in agricultural soils. These biopolymers are carbon sources of soil microbial communities linked to soil redox processes. Soil aggregates of waterunsaturated soil form natural boundaries of oxic conditions outside and oxygen-limited conditions inside. These biogeochemical interfaces lead to a highly heterogeneous oxygen distribution on a millimetre scale. The effects and mechanisms of the toxicity of herbicides on biopolymer degrading communities in such highly compartmentalized soils have not been resolved. The proposed study is a continuation of a project funded within Priority Program 1315 'Biogeochemical Interfaces in Soil'. The preceding project resolved phylogenetic identities of known and novel prokaryotes linked to cellulose degradation under both oxic and anoxic conditions, and demonstrated that the acidic herbicides Bentazon and MCPA impair microbial processes involved in cellulose degradation. The proposed project will (I) identify chitin-degrading prokaryotes, fungi, and protists that are active in oxic and anoxic microzones, (II) determine the tolerance of various cellulolytic and chitinolytic taxa to Bentazon and MCPA, (III) characterize key chitin-degraders, and (IV) will quantitatively assess oxygen distribution in during biopolymer degradation in an agricultural soil. Central methods will include stable isotope probing, analyses of 16S rRNA, 18S rRNA, and chitinase genes, HPLC, GC, and oxygen sensing via analysis of fluorescence dyes.