Scrutinizing compost properties and their impact on methane oxidation efficiency

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 871-883

  Huber Humer, Marion ^a   Tintner, Johannes ^a   Böhm, Katharina ^a   Lechner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CHARACTERISATION; COMPOST MATERIALS; DATA SETS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; FT-IR SPECTRUM; LABORATORY COLUMNS; LANDFILL COVERS; METHANE EMISSIONS; METHANE OXIDATION; METHANE OXIDATION RATES; MINERAL SUBSTRATES; MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT CONTENTS; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION RATES; WASTE MATERIALS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSTING; DATA REDUCTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOURIER SERIES; LAND FILL; MATERIALS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

METHANE;

METHANE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS;

COMPOST; FOURIER TRANSFORM; LANDFILL; METHANE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; COMPOST; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LANDFILL; NUTRIENT CONTENT; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; METHANE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 79952697699     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.09.023     Document Type: Article

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