Energy and air emission implications of a decentralized wastewater system

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Shehabi, Arman ^a   Stokes, Jennifer R ^b   Horvath, Arpad ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

decentralized wastewater treatment; greenhouse gases; life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860850971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024007     Document Type: Article

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