Treatment of landfill leachate

Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 441-494

  Bodzek, Michal ^a   Surmacz Gorska, Joanna ^a   Hung, Yung Tse ^b  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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