Xue Bai's research while affiliated with China National Institute of Standardization and other places

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As a representative service industry, the hotel industry has a complex water-use structure and high water consumption. It is of great significance to investigate the mechanisms determining hotel water-use behavior for demand analysis, as this would make it possible to enhance water-use efficiency and enact targeted water-saving measures. Using Spea...
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Colleges and universities are a typical service water consumers in China, i.e., with a dense population, single structure, and regular water use. This means it is crucial to strengthen the management of their water use behavior. In this paper, first of all, the main water devices and water use behavior of students were elucidated by investigating a...
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One of the largest water consumers among public institutions, hospitals are characterized by water usage for various functions. Therefore, the nuanced water use requires a special methodology to determine the hospital water conservation efficiency. Based on the method of “water consumption-influencing factors in the base period”, we constructed a m...
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Water-efficient products, a key component of water-saving technology, are widely installed and utilized in all sectors of society. Due to China’s extensive and varied use of this product, advancements in effectiveness and quality will significantly enhance people’s standard of living. In recent years, manufacturers, corporate purchasers, and indivi...
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Water-saving quantity is an important index to measure the effect of water saving. Scientific calculation of water-saving quantity is a basic content of water saving work, and is also an important means to carry out water saving evaluation and guide industrial enterprises to use water reasonably. This paper puts forward that the connotation of wate...
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While yeast manufacturing consumes a large amount of water per unit of product, water use efficiency varies widely within the industry due to disparity in water-saving technologies. By stipulating water intake per unit of product, the Norm of Water Intake––Part 41: Yeast Production (GB/T 18916.41-2019) will standardize production water use and impr...
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Water resource is an important factor restricting social-economic development. Hebei Province is one of the regions suffering from severe water shortage in China. Based on the Water Resources Assessment and Planning model, population growth, economic growth, water-saving, and integrated scenarios were established. The water demand and supply in Heb...
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At present, water-saving standard is an important technical means to implement national water-saving actions and the strictest water resources management system. In order to analyze the development process and research fields of water-saving standards in China, this paper makes quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis on seven aspects of wa...
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BACKGROUND The absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) components are closely related to their therapeutic efficacy, toxic effects, and drug interactions. Based on the study of the whole process of ADME in TCM, it is important to screen out the key pharmacokinetic index components (pharmacoki...
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This paper outlines the current situation concerning the standardisation of water use statistics in China. The water classification, statistical subjects, objects, methods and report templates are clarified in part regarding national total water use. Additionally, the standards of water use statistics for enterprises are introduced, which define st...
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In the face of increasingly severe pressure on water resources, the theory of virtual water and virtual water trade provides feasible solutions for improving the efficiency of global water use for agricultural products and alleviating the pressure on water resources in water scarce countries or regions. Optimizing the domestic inter-regional trade...
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Faced with increasingly severe pressure on water resources, virtual water and virtual water trade theory provide a feasible solution to improve global water use efficiency for agricultural production and to alleviate the pressure on water resources in water-scarce countries or regions. The Yellow River, the second longest river in China, is facing...
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Faced with increasingly severe pressure on water resources, virtual water and virtual water trade theory provide a feasible solution to improve global water use efficiency for agricultural product and to alleviate the pressure on water resources in water-scarce countries or regions. However, virtual water strategy has not been considered in domesti...
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Coal is the most important fossil energy used in China. The environmental impact of trace elements released in coal combustion has become one of the hottest issues in recent years. Based on a software named CiteSpace, and social network analysis (SNA), a bibliometric analysis of research into trace elements in coal and ash field during 1971–2017 is...
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Water scarcity and water quality are becoming increasingly serious global issues, especially in China. Collecting accurate, scientific data about water-scarce areas is a critical first step for water resources management. Beijing is one of the cities in China that faces severe water scarcity issues, impeding economic and social development. This st...
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The combination of geographic information system and mineral energy data management is helpful to promote the study of mineral energy and its ecological damage and environmental pollution caused by its development and utilization, which has important application value. The Trace Elements in Coal of China Database Management System (TECC) is establi...
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Water issues have become increasingly critical throughout the world, especially in the developing countries. Methodologies and analytical tools, such as water footprint assessment (WFA) have become more and more important for sustainable water resources management. This paper presents a comprehensive WFA for a typical large-scale intensive hog farm...
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Since the 2014 release of the International Standards Organization’s (ISO’s) international water footprint standard (ISO 14046), the subject of water footprint assessment based on life cycle assessment has gained increased attention in research communities. In this study, a dairy farm and five processing plants in a large Chinese enterprise’s dairy...
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Water resource is an essential element for all lives on this planet, and it is faced with severe scarcity and pollution issues in many parts of the world. Regional water stress assessment becomes a critical part of water resources assessment and management. To better manage and govern water resources under water scarcity conditions, this study revi...
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In order to better understand the role of coal gangue in potential environmental and ecological risks, the leaching behavior of trace elements from coal gangue has been investigated in an open-cast coal mine, Inner Mongolia, China. Four comparative column leaching experiments were conducted to investigate the impacts of leaching time, pH values and...

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... Owing to the high sensitivity and stability, modern mass spectrometry coupled with all kinds of hyphenated chromatography separation techniques has a pivotal role in the exploration of in vivo metabolism of active components. [738][739][740][741][742][743][744][745][746][747][748][749][750][751][752][753][754][755][756][757] Cheminformatics utilizing computer-aided, high-throughput virtual screening, network-based and machine learning techniques have opened up a new avenue in exploiting naturally-inspired products for lead compound and active components discovery. [758][759][760][761][762][763][764][765][766][767] A non-targeted metabolomics screening strategy is carried out focusing on the in vivo metabolites that exist in the administrated samples and do not exist in blank biological samples, by exploring the dosage-effect relationships. ...
... 5−7 The dark organic dye wastewater pollutants will reduce sunlight's ability to pass through water and impact aquatic plants. 8,9 Additionally, toxic substances are highly concentrated and difficult to degrade, 10 and dyes may be mutagenic and carcinogenic to aquatic organisms, which could seriously harm human health 11,12 and cause serious environmental pollution. 13 Wastewater discharged during cationic dye manufacturing and dyeing can cause allergic dermatitis, neurological diseases, rashes, cancer, and mutations. ...
... A dam is an artificial barrier constructed across a river restricting the water flow (Rahimi et al. 2020). Yet dams often have an adverse impact, such as disrupting the local ecosystem, impacting groundwater, and transforming a free-flowing river (Yang et al. 2018). Thus, alternatives like water recycling, water conservation, recharging groundwater, transferring water (Yi et al. 2022), and reworking existing dams (Watts et al. 2011) are being planned. ...
... Methods. This paper mainly uses bibliometric analysis to analyze water-saving standards, so as to describe, evaluate, and predict the development trends of water-saving standards [13,14]. Common bibliometric analysis software includes CiteSpace, VOSviewer, Bibexcel, and NetDraw (all software is open source and can be used for free). ...
... In addition to the lixiviation experiment data, survey data for mine water quality in different regions in China were obtained from the Trace Elements in Coal of China (TECC) Database Management System (Yang et al. 2017) for use in this study. TECC is used to manage trace element data from coal in China, aiding the clarification of the spatial distribution of hazardous elements in coal and the evaluation of coal element content benchmarks (Cao et al. 2020b. ...
... The evaluation of circular economy practices towards water circularity in an industrial plant could be achieved through extensive monitoring and recording of water consumption and wastewater production in their production units, enabling strategic actions deployment to reduce water consumption and reuse treated wastewater within the unit. A number of tools (indicators) can be applied, to enable industries address their water-related sustainability targets, such as the Water footprint (WF) (Hoekstra et al. 2009), Blue Water Scarcity (BWS) and Water Pollution Level (WPL) indexes (Bai et al. 2018). Through WF assessment, water use and pollution in a plant can be evaluated in a single indicator, while BWS index highlights the pressure of plant's operation to local water resources and WPL index indicates the level of pollution of local water resources from the plant's operation. ...
... Environmental footprints: Carbon footprint and water footprint Meng et al. (2017); Bai et al. (2018) Environmental footprints are an extension of the LCA method. They allow organisations to determine the impact of their processes on GHG emissions and water use. ...
... Since the very early stages, indices such as the Falkenmark Indicator (FI) [3], Social Water Stress Index (SWSI) [4] and Water Poverty Index (WPI) [5] have been developed to quantify water shortage issues. FI and SWSI are based on the human water requirements from socio-economic perspectives without considering water quality [6]. WPI is a comprehensive socioeconomic indicator and consists of five major components (resources, access, capacity, use, and environment), each with several sub-components. ...
... Subsequently, the acidification of the ores and soils in the mining areas can enhance the risk elements' mobility, especially Cd (Tabaksblat 2002;Pan et al. 2021). For instance, Yang et al. (2016) investigated the environmental impacts of the opencast coal mine in China, and their study showed low potential environmental effects of risk elements on soil and vegetation in the studied area. On the contrary, a high potential risk of these elements was predicted due to their potential leaching from the coal gangue into the groundwater, confirming the environmental risk caused by the wastewater. ...