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Nikolina Poranek1,2,3, Beata Łaźniewska-Piekarczyk2, Lidia Lombardi4

  • 1Department of Technologies and Installations for Waste Management, Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering, The Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 18, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.

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