Anaerobic degradation of diethyl phthalate and phthalic acid during incubation of municipal solid waste from a biogas digestor

Swedish Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 53-59

  Ejlertsson, Jörgen ^a   Houwen, Frans P ^a   Svensson, Bo H ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology ^*

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