Assessing the environmental impact of biobleaching: effects of the operational conditions

Cristina Valls1, Elisabet Quintana, M Blanca Roncero

  • 1Textile and Paper Engineering Department, ETSEIAT, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Colom 11, E-08222 Terrassa, Spain.

Bioresource Technology
|November 15, 2011
PubMed

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