Progress in the biological and chemical treatment technologies for emerging contaminant removal from wastewater: A critical review

Journal of Hazardous Materials - Tập 323 - Trang 274-298 - 2017
Mohammad Boshir Ahmed1, John L. Zhou1, Huu Hao Ngo1, Wenshan Guo1, Νikolaos S. Τhomaidis2, Xu Jiang3
1School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Australia
2Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece
3State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai 200062, China

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