Bioremediation of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) pollution at HCH dump sites

Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 0, Issue , 2013, Pages 387-404

  Anand, Shailly ^a   Malhotra, Jaya ^a   Niharika, Neha ^a   Lal, Devi ^a   Jindal, Swati ^a   Kaur, Jaspreet ^a   Nigam, Aeshna ^a   Garg, Nidhi ^a   Lata, Pushp ^a   Kaur, Jasvinder ^a   Sangwan, Naseer ^a   Singh, Amit Kumar ^a   Dua, Ankita ^a   Saxena, Anjali ^a   Dwivedi, Vatsala ^a   Mukherjee, Udita ^a   Lal, Rup ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BIOREMEDIATION;

EID: 85108428618     PISSN: 18635520     EISSN: 18635539     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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