Decolourization of pulp mill wastewater using thermotolerant white rot fungi

ScienceAsia

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-41

  Prasongsuk, Sehanat ^a   Lotrakul, Pongtharin ^a   Imai, Tsuyoshi ^b   Punnapayak, Hunsa ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Ligninolytic fungi; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549144293     PISSN: 15131874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2009.35.037     Document Type: Article

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