Studying pollutant solute transport in saturated MSW using multi-tracer tests

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 3727-3740

  Oni, Olayiwola Ademola Gbolahan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADO EKITI   (Nigeria)

^b Proworks Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Municipal solid waste; Preferential flow; Recycling flow; Solute transport; Water pollutant

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953500270     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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