Dewatering performance of sewage sludge under pretreatment with modified corn-core powder

Zhiying Guo1, Liping Ma1, Quxiu Dai1

  • 1Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, China.

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