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Yongmei Zhang1, Xiaochang C Wang1, Zhe Cheng1

  • 1Key Lab of Northwest Water Resource, Environment and Ecology, MOE, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, 710055, PR China.

Chemosphere
|September 27, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
Anaerobic fermentationCarbon sourceDenitrification potentialDenitrification rateFood waste

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