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Sources of Formation, Characteristics and Flow Forecasts of Biodegradable Waste

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This chapter presents the analysis of biodegradable waste from small farms and food industry enterprises, their specific features and prediction of flows’ formation, as well as the amounts to be processed, the possibilities of their use for gas production, and the formation and variation, processing and the prediction of their variation results.

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Baltrėnas, P., Baltrėnaitė, E. (2018). Sources of Formation, Characteristics and Flow Forecasts of Biodegradable Waste. In: Small Bioreactors for Management of Biodegradable Waste. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78211-9_1

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