Chemical recycling of waste plastics by pyrolysis: Effect of polymer type on products distribution

Pyrolysis: Types, Processes, and Industrial Sources and Products

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 359-402

  Achilias, Dimitris S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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