At present, the issue of carbon emissions from buildings has become a hot topic, and carbon emission reduction is also becoming a political and economic contest for countries. As a result, the government and researchers have gradually begun to attach great importance to the industrialization of low-carbon and energy-saving buildings. The rise of prefabricated buildings has promoted a major transformation of the construction methods in the construction industry, which is conducive to reducing the consumption of resources and energy, and of great significance in promoting the low-carbon emission reduction of industrial buildings. This article mainly studies the calculation model for carbon emissions of the three-stage life cycle of component production, logistics transportation, and on-site installation in the whole construction process of composite beams for prefabricated buildings. The construction of CG-2 composite beams in Fujian province, China, was taken as the example. Based on the life cycle assessment method, carbon emissions from the actual construction process of composite beams were evaluated, and that generated by the composite beam components during the transportation stage by using diesel, gasoline, and electric energy consumption methods were compared in detail. The results show that (1) the carbon emissions generated by composite beams during the production stage were relatively high, accounting for 80.8% of the total carbon emissions, while during the transport stage and installation stage, they only accounted for 7.6% and 11.6%, respectively; and (2) during the transportation stage with three different energy-consuming trucks, the carbon emissions from diesel fuel trucks were higher, reaching 186.05 kg, followed by gasoline trucks, which generated about 115.68 kg; electric trucks produced the lowest, only 12.24 kg.

To remove graphene oxide contaminant from aqueous solution, laterite was used as an adsorbent to conduct batch adsorption experiments on graphene oxide aqueous solutions. The effects of pH, adsorbent mass, graphene oxide initial concentration, contact time, and temperature on graphene oxide adsorption by laterite were studied predominantly. The results show that graphene oxide adsorption by laterite strongly depends on pH, the kinetic data conforms to the second-order kinetic model, and the isotherm data are in line with Langmuir and Freundlich models. Moreover, temperature increment is more conducive to improving the adsorption capacity. Combined with scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman microscopic tests, the internal changes of samples before and after adsorption were further revealed. The comprehensive analysis of the above experimental results shows that laterite is a good material, which can effectively remove graphene oxide contamination from aqueous solutions.