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Decolourization of Real Textile Wastewater by the Combination of Photocatalytic and Biological Oxidation Processes

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Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (EMCEI 2017)

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The removal of colour from wastewater is often more important than the removal of the soluble colourless organic substances, which usually contribute to the major fraction of the biochemical oxygen demand (Khan and al. in Int J Eng Sci, 5(7):61–70, 2016).

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  1. IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, P.O. Box 3015, 2601 DA, Delft, The Netherlands

    Teklit Gebregiorgis & Eric D. van Hullebusch

  2. Department of Chemistry, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

    Teklit Gebregiorgis

  3. Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan-Aman 260, Tepi, Ethiopia

    Kiros Hagos

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Correspondence to Teklit Gebregiorgis .

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  1. Sfax National School of Engineering, University of Sfax Sfax National School of Engineering, Sfax, Tunisia

    Amjad Kallel

  2. Higher Instit. of Biotechnol. of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Mohamed Ksibi

  3. Sfax National School of Engineering, University of Sfax Sfax National School of Engineering, Sfax, Tunisia

    Hamed Ben Dhia

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    Nabil Khélifi

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Gebregiorgis, T., van Hullebusch, E.D., Hagos, K. (2018). Decolourization of Real Textile Wastewater by the Combination of Photocatalytic and Biological Oxidation Processes. In: Kallel, A., Ksibi, M., Ben Dhia, H., Khélifi, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions. EMCEI 2017. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_40

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