Biological waste air treatment in biofilters

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 335-339

  Deshusses, Marc A ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; BIOFILTER; BIOFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0031000224     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(97)80013-4     Document Type: Article

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