Air filled porosity measurements by air pycnometry in the composting process: A review and a correlation analysis

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2655-2666

  Ruggieri, Luz ^a   Gea, Teresa ^a   Artola, Adriana ^a   Sánchez, Antoni ^a  

^a Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyeria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air filled porosity; Composting; Free air space; Organic solid wastes; Pycnometry

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING PROCESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL APPROACHES; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATIONS; FREE AIR SPACE; ORGANIC MATRIXES; ORGANIC SOLID WASTES; ORGANIC WASTES; POROSITY MEASUREMENTS; PYCNOMETRY; WASTE SAMPLES;

PORE SIZE; SEWAGE;

WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOSTING; CORRELATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; POROSITY; SOLID WASTE;

ACCURACY; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR PYCNOMETRY; AIR SAMPLING; COMPOSTING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICISM; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC WASTE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENSITOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; POROSITY; SOIL;

EID: 63749093580     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2008.12.049     Document Type: Review

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