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V A Tsihrintzis1, C S Akratos, G D Gikas

  • 1Laboratory of Ecological Engineering and Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67100 Xanthi, Greece.

Environmental Technology
|July 13, 2007
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