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The application of electrocoagulation process for wastewater treatment and for the separation and purification of biological media

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(1)The application of electrocoagulation process for wastewater treatment and for the separation and purification of biological media Nidal Fayad. To cite this version: Nidal Fayad. The application of electrocoagulation process for wastewater treatment and for the separation and purification of biological media. Chemical and Process Engineering. Université Clermont Auvergne, 2017. English. �NNT : 2017CLFAC024�. �tel-01719756�. HAL Id: tel-01719756 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01719756 Submitted on 28 Feb 2018. HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés..

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quantification of earthworm burrow structural features (mean diameter, burrow number, burrow distribution by soil depth) of the endogeic Aporrectodea caliginosa Savigny

We have developed a method to create nanoscale silicon seeds for lateral epitaxial of Ge on silicon oxide by using local oxidation of silicon 共LOCOS兲 within a silicon nitride