Bioprocess engineering of sulphate reduction for environmental technology

Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria: Environmental and Engineered Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 383-404

  Lens, Piet N L ^a   Vallero, Marcus ^a   Esposito, Giovanni ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 55749103327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511541490.014     Document Type: Chapter

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