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Effect of Low-Temperature Conditioning of Excess Dairy Sewage Sludge with the Use of Solidified Carbon Dioxide on the Efficiency of Methane Fermentation. ENERGIES 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/en14010150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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This study aimed to determine the effect of the low-temperature conditioning of excess dairy sewage sludge using solidified carbon dioxide on the efficiency of methane fermentation. An increase in the solidified carbon dioxide to excess dairy sewage sludge volumetric ratio above 0.3 had no significant effect on chemical oxygen demand concentration in the dissolved phase. The highest chemical oxygen demand values, ranging from 490.6 ± 12.9 to 510.5 ± 28.5 mg·dm−3, were determined at solidified carbon dioxide to excess dairy sewage sludge ratio ranging from 0.3 to 0.5. The low-temperature conditioning caused ammonia nitrogen concentration to increase from 155.2 ± 10.2 to 185.9 ± 11.1 mg·dm−3 and orthophosphates concentration to increase from 198.5 ± 23.1 to 300.6 ± 35.9 mg·dm−3 in the dissolved phase. The highest unitary amount of biogas, reaching 630.2 ± 45.5 cm3·g o.d.m.−1, was produced in the variant with the solidified carbon dioxide to excess dairy sewage sludge volumetric ratio of 0.3. Methane content of the biogas produced was at 68.7 ± 1.5%. Increased solidified carbon dioxide dose did not lead to any significant changes in biogas and methane production. The efficiency of biogas production from unconditioned excess dairy sewage sludge was lower by 43.0 ± 3.2%. The analysis demonstrated that the low-temperature conditioning is an energetic viable technology aiding the methane fermentation process.
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Scholz M, Almuktar S, Clausner C, Antonacopoulos A. Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2020; 41:2594-2602. [PMID: 30689531 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2019.1575916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Many industries, which are producing sludge in large quantities, depend on sludge dewatering technology to reduce the corresponding water content. A key design parameter for dewatering equipment is the capillary suction time (CST) test, which has, however, several scientific flaws, despite that the test is practical and easy-to-perform. The standard CST test has a few considerable drawbacks: its lack of reliability and difficulties in obtaining results for heavy sludge types. Furthermore, it is not designed for long experiments (e.g. >30 min), and has only two measurement points (its two electrodes). In comparison, the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) test is almost as simple as the CST, but considerably more reliable, faster, flexible and informative in terms of the wealth of visual measurement data collected with modern image analysis software. The standard deviations associated with repeated measurements for the same sludge is lower for the DET than for the CST test. In contrast to the CST device, capillary suction in the DET test is linear and not radial, allowing for a straightforward interpretation of findings. The new DET device may replace the CST test in the sludge-producing industries in the future.
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- Miklas Scholz
- Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- School of Computing, Science and Engineering, The University of Salford, Salford, UK
- Department of Civil Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Architectural Engineering, The University of Basrah, Al Basrah, Iraq
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Machnicka A, Grübel K, Wacławek S, Sikora K. Waste-activated sludge disruption by dry ice: bench scale study and evaluation of heat phase transformations. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2019; 26:26488-26499. [PMID: 31290045 PMCID: PMC6733821 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-05889-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The freezing process consists of dissipating heat from the product until the final temperature is lower than the temperature of crystallisation of that product. Freezing can be used for numerous applications, including for disruption of waste-activated sludge (WAS). The aim of this study was to calculate the estimated amount of heat conveyed between the solidified carbon dioxide and the WAS, in the following ratios: 0.25:1; 0.5:1; 0.75:1 and 1:1. In heat of phase transformations, dry ice sublimation, water solidification, the amount of heat transferred by other substances and heat transferred from the sludge (dry sludge) were taken into account during the process of WAS freezing. Heat changes on the surface of WAS were registered using a thermovision camera. The effectiveness of WAS disintegration was confirmed by several biochemical parameters such as soluble chemical oxygen demand (increase over 14 times), degree of disintegration (48%), proteins (increase over 5 times), carbohydrates (increase almost 7 times), RNA (increase by 2.23 mg L-1), ammonia nitrogen (increase over 23 times), phosphates (increase almost 27 times) and turbidity (increased over 7 times). It was found that dry ice pretreatment of WAS can be an intriguing alternative for the conventional methods used.
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- Alicja Machnicka
- Faculty of Materials, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Bielsko-Biala, Willowa 2 STR, 43-300, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
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- Faculty of Materials, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Bielsko-Biala, Willowa 2 STR, 43-300, Bielsko-Biala, Poland.
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- Centre for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bielsko-Biala, Willowa 2 STR, 43-300, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
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Silvestri D, Wacławek S, Gončuková Z, Padil VVT, Grübel K, Černík M. A new method for assessment of the sludge disintegration degree with the use of differential centrifugal sedimentation. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2019; 40:3086-3093. [PMID: 29768097 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2018.1477839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2017] [Accepted: 04/03/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A novel method for assessing the disintegration degree (DD) of waste activated sludge (WAS) with the use of differential centrifugal sedimentation method (DCS) was shown herein. The method was validated for a WAS sample at four levels of disintegration in the range of 14.4-82.6% corresponding to the median particle size range of 8.5-1.6 µm. From the several sludge disintegration methods used (i.e. microwave, alkalization, ultrasounds and peroxydisulfate activated by ultrasounds), the activated peroxydisulfate disintegration resulted in the greatest DD 83% and the smallest median particle size of WAS. Particle size distribution of pretreated sludge, measured by DCS, was in a negative correlation with the DD, determined from soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD; determination coefficient of 0.995). Based on the obtained results, it may be concluded that the DCS analysis can approximate the WAS disintegration degree.
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- Daniele Silvestri
- Centre for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec , Liberec , Czech Republic
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- Centre for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec , Liberec , Czech Republic
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- Centre for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec , Liberec , Czech Republic
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- Centre for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec , Liberec , Czech Republic
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Environmental Protection and Engineering, University of Bielsko-Biala , Bielsko-Biała , Poland
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- Centre for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec , Liberec , Czech Republic
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Grübel K, Wacławek S, Kuglarz M, Wacławek M, Černík M. Improvement of the thermophilic anaerobic digestion and hygienisation of waste activated sludge by synergistic pretreatment. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2019; 54:694-700. [PMID: 30810471 DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2019.1579540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 01/16/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Hybrid disintegration of waste activated sludge (WAS) before the thermophilic anaerobic stabilization of WAS contributes to the intensification of organic compounds decomposition and increases the effectiveness of the anaerobic stabilization process compared to the fermentation of raw WAS. This article investigates the influence of a chemical-thermal pretreatment procedure with the use of NaOH and freezing by the dry ice on WAS. We found that the hybrid pretreatment of WAS causes higher concentration of released organics in the liquid phase (represented here as a change in soluble chemical oxygen demand - SCOD value) in comparison to these disintegration techniques used separately. The use of disintegrated WAS (WASD) as an additional material in the digester chambers impacts (varying on its proportion added), the generation of biogas and its yield. The recorded amount of the produced biogas and biogas yield after 21 days of fermentation increased by 26.6% and 2.7%, respectively (in comparison to blank sample). In addition, it was observed that the hybrid process before anaerobic stabilization contributes to a higher hygienisation of the digested sludge.
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- Klaudiusz Grübel
- a Faculty of Materials Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Bielsko-Biala , Bielsko-Biala , Poland
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- b Centre for Nanomaterials Advanced Technologies and Innovation Technical University of Liberec , Liberec , Czech Republic
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- a Faculty of Materials Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Bielsko-Biala , Bielsko-Biala , Poland
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- c Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology , University of Opole , Opole , Poland
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- b Centre for Nanomaterials Advanced Technologies and Innovation Technical University of Liberec , Liberec , Czech Republic
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Disintegration of Wastewater Activated Sludge (WAS) for Improved Biogas Production. ENERGIES 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/en12010021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Due to rapid urbanization, the number of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) has increased, and so has the associated waste generated by them. Sustainable management of this waste can lead to the creation of energy-rich biogas via fermentation processes. This review presents recent advances in the anaerobic digestion processes that have led to greater biogas production. Disintegration techniques for enhancing the fermentation of waste activated sludge can be apportioned into biological, physical and chemical means, which are included in this review; they were mainly compared and contrasted in terms of the ensuing biogas yield. It was found that ultrasonic- and microwave-assisted disintegration provides the highest biogas yield (>500%) although they tend to be the most energy demanding processes (>10,000 kJ kg−1 total solids).
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Meng Z, Zhou Z, Zheng D, Liu L, Dong J, Yang Y, Li X, Zhang T. Optimizing dewaterability of drinking water treatment sludge by ultrasound treatment: Correlations to sludge physicochemical properties. ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY 2018; 45:95-105. [PMID: 29705330 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2018.02.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Revised: 01/10/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Sludge dewatering has proven to be an effective method to reduce the volume of sludge. In this study, drinking water treatment sludge (DWTS) was treated by ultra-sonication under variable conditions comparing two sonoreactor types (bath and probe), four frequencies (25, 40, 68, 160 kHz) and four energy density levels (0.03, 1, 3, 5 W/mL). The effects of these conditions were studied using specific resistance to filtration and capillary suction time as measures of dewaterability, and floc size, the Brunauer, Emmett and Teller (BET) specific surface area and Zeta potential to determine treated sludge characteristics. The results indicated that the dewaterability of sonicated sludge improved at relatively low energy densities of 0.03 and 1.0 W/mL, while an optimum for sonication duration (within 10 min) was also identified. Higher frequencies (tested up to 160 kHz) with acoustic energy density of 0.03 W/mL also reduced the dewatering property. At higher energy densities of 3.0 and 5.0 W/mL, dewaterability of sludge deteriorated regardless of ultra-sonication time, with an increase of solubilized organic matter content and severely changed floc characteristics. The deterioration of the dewatering capacity was closely related to the considerably reduced floc sizes, dissolution of proteins and polysaccharides, and to the Zeta potential of sonicated sludge flocs. The dewaterability was not correlated with BET specific surface area. Mechanistic explanations for the observations were discussed by analyzing corrosion patterns of aluminum foil as a measure for cavitation field distribution.
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- Zhili Meng
- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Wuhan Technology and Business University, Wuhan 430065, PR China
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- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Wuhan Technology and Business University, Wuhan 430065, PR China; Engineering and Technology Research Center of Hubei Province for Wastewater Reclamation, Wuhan 430065, PR China; College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
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- School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Wuhan Technology and Business University, Wuhan 430065, PR China; Engineering and Technology Research Center of Hubei Province for Wastewater Reclamation, Wuhan 430065, PR China
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- Engineering and Technology Research Center of Hubei Province for Wastewater Reclamation, Wuhan 430065, PR China
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- Engineering and Technology Research Center of Hubei Province for Wastewater Reclamation, Wuhan 430065, PR China
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- College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
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- College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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Cheng C, Zhou Z, Qiu Z, Yang J, Wu W, Pang H. Enhancement of sludge reduction by ultrasonic pretreatment and packing carriers in the anaerobic side-stream reactor: Performance, sludge characteristics and microbial community structure. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 249:298-306. [PMID: 29054059 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.10.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2017] [Revised: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 10/07/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Effects of ultrasonic pretreatment and packing carriers on sludge reduction, settleability, dewaterability and microbial community structure in the anaerobic side-stream reactor (ASSR) were investigated with three anaerobic reactors operated in parallel. Ultrasonication from 3.65% in the ASSR to 5.08%, and packing carriers further enhanced the efficiency to 19.2%. Ultrasonic pretreatment of sludge decreased oxidation-reduction potential in ASSR and enhanced the release of intracellular substances. The deterioration of sludge settleability and dewaterability in the ASSR after ultrasonic pretreatment was improved by packing carriers. Illumina-MiSeq sequencing showed that microbial richness and diversity increased after ultrasonic pretreatment and packing carriers in the ASSR. Packing carriers favored the growth of slow grower (Dechloromonas), fermentative bacteria (Draconibacteriaceae, Fusibacter, Acidaminobacter) and floc-forming bacteria (Zoogloea), while hydrolytic and predatory bacteria (Saprospiraceae_unculture) and slow grower (Thauera) was enriched in the ASSR.
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- Cheng Cheng
- College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China
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- College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China.
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- Shanghai Chentou Wastewater Treatment Co., Ltd, Shanghai 201203, China
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- College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China
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- College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China
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- College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China
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Zhou Z, Yang Y, Li X, Ji S, Zhang H, Wang S, Zeng Q, Han X. The removal characteristics of natural organic matter in the recycling of drinking water treatment sludge: Role of solubilized organics. ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY 2016; 28:259-268. [PMID: 26384907 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2015.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2015] [Revised: 06/06/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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To clarify the role of solubilized organics derived from drinking water treatment sludge (DWTS) in the elimination of natural organic matter (NOM) in the DWTS recycling process, a probe sonoreactor at a frequency of 25 kHz was used to solubilize the organics at varied specific energies. The coagulation behavior related to NOM removal in recycling the sonicated DWTS with and without solubilized organics was evaluated, and the effect on organic fractionations in coagulated water was determined. The study results could provide useful implications in designing DWTS recycling processes that avoid the enrichment of organic matter. Our results indicate that DWTS was disrupted through a low release of soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD) and proteins, which could deteriorate the coagulated water quality under the specific energy of 37.87-1212.1 kW h/kg TS. The optimal coagulation behavior for NOM removal was achieved by recycling the sonicated DWTS without solubilized organics at 151.5 kW h/kg TS specific energy. Recycling the sonicated DWTS could increase the enrichment potential of weakly hydrophobic acid, hydrophilic matter, and <3 kDa fractions; the enrichment risks could be reduced by discharging the solubilized organics. Fluorescent characteristic analysis indicated that when recycling the sonicated DWTS without solubilized organics, the removal of humic-like substances was limited, whereas removal of protein-like substances was enhanced, lowering the enrichment potential of protein-like substances.
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- Zhiwei Zhou
- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China.
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- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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- The College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, PR China
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