Treatment of pharmaceutical wastes

Waste Treatment in the Process Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 167-233

  Gupta, Sudhir Kumar ^a   Gupta, Sunil Kumar ^a   Hung, Yung Tse ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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