Biotrickling filtration for control of volatile organic compounds from microelectronics industry

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 610-619

  Den, Walter ^a   Huang, Chihpin ^b   Li, Chi Han ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Filters; Industrial wastes; Kinetics; Volatile organic chemicals

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROCARBONS; MASS TRANSFER; MICROELECTRONICS;

STRAINS;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOFILTER; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS;

EID: 0041302584     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2003)129:7(610)     Document Type: Article

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