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Xing Ya-Juan1,2, Ji Jun-Yuan3, Zheng Ping4

  • 1Department of Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.

Biodegradation
|June 2, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
Autotrophic nitrogen removalGranular compositionGranular morphologySpatial microbial distribution

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