Environmental engineering: Energy value of replacing waste disposal with resource recovery

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5428, 1999, Pages 706-711

  Iranpour, R ^a   Stenstrom, M ^b   Tchobanoglous, G ^c   Miller, D ^d   Wright, J ^e   Vossoughi, M ^f  

^a Applied Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Tech Research   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AERATION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADATION; DISINFECTION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIBER; MICROFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WOOD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033618616     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5428.706     Document Type: Review

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