Experimental and modeling approaches for food waste composting: A review

Chemosphere

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1247-1257

  Li, Zhentong ^a   Lu, Hongwei ^a   Ren, Lixia ^a   He, Li ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Composting; Food waste; Review; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; COMPOSTING; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL; REVIEWS;

COMPUTER BASED SIMULATION; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE; FOOD WASTE; FOOD WASTE COMPOSTING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION APPROACH;

WASTE TREATMENT;

NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

COMPOSTING; EMISSION CONTROL; FOOD; ORGANIC MATTER; SIMULATION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL STRUCTURE; WASTE;

AERATION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPOSTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXHAUST GAS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD; LABORATORY TEST; MOISTURE; PH; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SCREENING; TEMPERATURE;

COMPOSTING; FOOD WASTE; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

FOOD; GARBAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84885859668     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.06.064     Document Type: Review

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