Effective pine bark composting with the Dome Aeration Technology

Waste Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-105

  Trois, Cristina ^a   Polster, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; LAND FILL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT;

BARK COMPOSTING; DOME AERATION TECHNOLOGY; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS;

SOLID WASTES;

COSTS; LAND FILL; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT;

AERATION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMPOSTING; LANDFILL; OXIC CONDITIONS; RECOVERY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TREATMENT;

AERATION; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BARK; COMPOSTING; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LANDFILL; PINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TEMPERATURE; WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE MINIMIZATION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS; PLANT BARK; SOIL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; DURBAN; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33751233873     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2005.12.015     Document Type: Article

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