Resilience to bacterial degradation and biosurfactant disruption as selection criteria for improved artificial monolayer compounds

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Pittaway, Pam, Herzig, Michael, van den Ancker, Tania and Barnes, Geoff. 2009. "Resilience to bacterial degradation and biosurfactant disruption as selection criteria for improved artificial monolayer compounds." Lemckert, Charles (ed.) IWER 2009: International Workshop on Evaporation from Reservoirs. Gold Coast, Australia 09 - 11 Dec 2009 Gold Coast, Australia.
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Resilience to bacterial degradation and biosurfactant disruption as selection criteria for improved artificial monolayer compounds

Degradation and biosurfactant disruption as selection criteria for improved artificial monolayer compounds

Presentation TypePaper
AuthorsPittaway, Pam (Author), Herzig, Michael (Author), van den Ancker, Tania (Author) and Barnes, Geoff (Author)
EditorsLemckert, Charles
Journal or Proceedings TitleProceedings of the International Workshop in Evaporation Research (IWER 2009)
Number of Pages2
Year2009
Place of PublicationGold Coast, Australia
Web Address (URL) of Paperhttp://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/international-workshop-evaporation-from-reservoirs/abstracts
Conference/EventIWER 2009: International Workshop on Evaporation from Reservoirs
Event Details
IWER 2009: International Workshop on Evaporation from Reservoirs
Event Date
09 to end of 11 Dec 2009
Event Location
Gold Coast, Australia
Abstract

Development of improved monolayer based evaporation mitigation systems that can be applied to large scale water storages to reduce evaporation loses

Keywordsdams; evaporation reduction; chemical monolayer techniques
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020370704. Surface water hydrology
300201. Agricultural hydrology
400513. Water resources engineering
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Byline AffiliationsNational Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
University of Queensland
Department of Biological and Physical Sciences
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