Utilization of pulverized fuel ash in Malta

Waste Management

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 853-860

  Camilleri, Josette ^a   Sammut, Michael ^b   Montesin, Franco E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Malta)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL ASH; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; LANDFILLED ASHES; LEACHATES;

CONCRETES; LAND FILL; PULVERIZED FUEL; RADIOACTIVITY; SPECTROMETRY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

SOLID WASTES;

FUEL;

CONCRETES; LAND FILL; PULVERIZED FUEL; RADIOACTIVITY; SOLID WASTES; SPECTROMETRY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CEMENT; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETE; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; GROUNDWATER; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; PULVERIZED FUEL ASH; RADIOACTIVITY; REPLACEMENT; VADOSE ZONE;

ARTICLE; ASH; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CEMENT INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MALTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

COAL; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEAD RADIOISOTOPES; MALTA; PARTICLE SIZE; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; POWER PLANTS; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MALTA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745190021     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2005.11.022     Document Type: Article

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