Degradation of synthetic xylan effluent using a membrane bioreactor

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 99, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 315-317

  Edward, Vinodh A ^a,b   Pillay, Visvanathan L ^b   Swart, Pieter ^c   Jacobs, Ed ^c   Singh, Suren ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTOR;

THERMOMYCES; THERMOMYCES LANUGINOSUS; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0242659227     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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