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Sludge granulation and efficiency of phase separator in UASB reactor treating combined industrial effluent

Abdullah Yasar1, Nasir Ahmad, Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry

  • 1Directorate of Research and Development, University of the Punjab, 41-Kamran Block, Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore-Pakistan. yasar.abdullah@gmail.com

Journal of Environmental Sciences (China)
|October 6, 2007
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