A Tool to Optimize VOC Removal during Absorption and Stripping

Chemical Engineering

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 94-98

  Ferreira, Eugénio C ^a   Salcedo, Romualdo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

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EID: 0035139595     PISSN: 00092460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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