Pretreatment technology for the beneficial biological reuse of municipal sewage sludges

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Part A Enzyme Engineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 57-58, Issue , 1996, Pages 983-991

  Rivard, Christopher J ^a   Nagle, Nicholas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Pretreatment; Sewage sludge; Shear; Sonication; Thermal treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141457485     PISSN: 02732289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02941778     Document Type: Article

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