Composting: Process

Solid Waste Technology & Management

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 513-532

  Stentiford, Edward ^a   de Bertoldi, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological Treatment; Definition of Composting and Compost; Degradation of Carbon; Degradation of Nitrogen and Sulfur; Energy Release and Temperature Development; Factors Affecting Pathogen Growth in Compost; Fate of Mass During Composting; Microbial Biomass and Succession; Pathogenic Agents in Composts and Their Control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886157811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470666883.ch34     Document Type: Chapter

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