Investigating the Efficiency of Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate (LECA) in Wastewater Treatment of Dairy Industry

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Hooman Bahmanpour ¹ , Reza Habashi ² , Seyed Mohammad Hosseini ³

1 - 1Department of Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch, Shahroud, Iran
2 - Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch, Shahroud, Iran
3 - Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch, Shahroud, Iran

Received: 2017-08-08 Accepted : 2017-09-14 Published : 2017-09-01

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