Bio-oil production from poultry litter: Potential energy, environmental and chemical opportunities

Applied Research of Animal Manure: Challenges and Opportunities beyond the Adverse Environmental Concerns

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 83-138

  Monreal, Carlos M ^a   Schnitzer, Morris I ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

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