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Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering
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Removal of H2S pollutant from gasifier syngas by a multistage dual-flow sieve plate column wet scrubber

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Pages 515-523 | Received 11 Nov 2016, Accepted 12 Dec 2016, Published online: 16 Feb 2017

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