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Research Article

Toxic emissions from smouldering combustion of woody biomass and derived char with a case study of CO build-up in an ISO container

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Pages 2990-3007 | Received 20 Jan 2019, Accepted 21 Apr 2019, Published online: 30 May 2019

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