Syntrophic communities in methane formation from high strength wastewaters

Microbes at Work: From Wastes to Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-77

  Plugge, Caroline M ^a   Van Lier, Jules B ^b   Stams, Alfons J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04043-6_3     Document Type: Chapter

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