Low-Energy Wastewater Treatment: Strategies and Technologies

Environmental Microbiology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 301-318

  Curtis, Thomas P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental engineering implementation of strategies to break; Low energy wastewater treatment strategies and technologies; Methanogenic wastewater treatment systems carbon hydrolyzed in wastewater

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052209140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470495117.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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