Applied studies in solar photocatalytic detoxification: An overview

Solar Energy

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 329-336

  Malato, Sixto ^a   Blanco, Julián ^a   Vidal, Alfonso ^a   Alarcón, Diego ^a   Maldonado, Manuel I ^a   Cáceres, Julia ^a   Gernjak, Wolfgang ^a  

^a PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETOXIFICATION; PESTICIDES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PILOT PLANTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

WATER-SOLUBLE PESTICIDES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE; PESTICIDE;

EID: 0242414737     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2003.07.017     Document Type: Article

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