Performance and optimisation of trickling filters on eel farms

Aquacultural Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-192

  Kamstra, A ^a   Van Der Heul, J W ^a   Nijhof, M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Eel farming; Trickling filters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000505465     PISSN: 01448609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8609(98)00014-4     Document Type: Article

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