Bioconversion of sewage sludge and industrially produced woodchips

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 150, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 219-233

  Maboeta, M S ^a   Van Rensburg, L ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Composting; Eisenia fetida; Micro organism inoculant; Sewage sludge; Vermicomposting; Woodchips

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; DAMS; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROORGANISMS; PLATINUM; VEGETATION; WOOD;

WOODCHIPS;

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; ORGANIC MATTER; PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSTING; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INOCULATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROORGANISM; MINING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REVEGETATION; SALMONELLA; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERMICOMPOST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EISENIA FETIDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAXINUS; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0242525631     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026193110198     Document Type: Article

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