Inventory and treatment of compost maturation emissions in a municipal solid waste treatment facility

Waste Management

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 344-351

  Dorado, Antonio D ^a   Husni, Shafik ^b   Pascual, Guillem ^b   Puigdellivol, Carles ^b   Gabriel, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemical scrubber plus biofilter; Emissions inventory; SPME GC MS; Treatment efficiency; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SCRUBBERS; EMISSIONS INVENTORY; LOW REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; METHYL ETHYL KETONES; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; SOLID PHASE MICRO-EXTRACTION AND GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRIES; SPME/GC-MS; TREATMENT EFFICIENCY;

BIOFILTERS; COMPOSTING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; KETONES; MONOTERPENES; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ODORS; PH; REMOVAL; SCRUBBERS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS;

2 BUTANONE; BENZALDEHYDE; BENZYL ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; LIMONENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BIOFILTRATION; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; EMISSION INVENTORY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; COMPOST; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY;

CHEMICAL SCRUBBER PLUS BIOFILTER; EMISSIONS INVENTORY; MSW; MSWTF; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE TREATMENT FACILITY; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION/GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPME/GC-MS; TREATMENT EFFICIENCY; VOC; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES;

EID: 84892485473     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.10.044     Document Type: Article

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