Design, implementation, and economic/societal considerations of chelant-enhanced soil washing

Chelating Agents for Land Decontamination Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-26

  Tsang, Daniel C W ^a   Lo, Irene M C ^b   Surampalli, Rao Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELANTS; SOIL WASHING;

EID: 85019731177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784412183.ch01     Document Type: Chapter

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