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Fabio Ferrero1, Bulent Kozanoglu, Josep Arnaldos

  • 1Centre d'Estudis del Risc Tecnològic (CERTEC), Chemical Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. fabio.ferrero@upc.edu

Journal of Hazardous Materials
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