Contaminant removal from dry and wet sands by thermal desorption

International Journal of Environment and Waste Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-48

  Chawla, Ramesh C ^a   Pourhashemi, Ali ^b  

^a Howard University   (United States)

^b CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contaminated sand; heat conduction; incineration; porous media; thermal conductivity; thermal desorption; wet porous media

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549283851     PISSN: 14789876     EISSN: 14789868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEWM.2006.011124     Document Type: Article

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