Water treatment and reuse in breweries

Brewing Microbiology: Managing Microbes, Ensuring Quality and Valorising Waste

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 425-456

  Simate, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Beer; Brewery wastewater; Brewing; Water treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008154039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-78242-331-7.00020-4     Document Type: Chapter

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