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Poornima Jayasinghe
Back to facultyAssistant Professor (Teaching)Department of Civil EngineeringUniversity of Calgary
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Latest papers
Aerated biofilters with multiple-level air injection configurations to enhance biological treatment of methane emissions.
Bioresource technology · 2017
1 publications.
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Aerated biofilters with multiple-level air injection configurations to enhance biological treatment of methane emissions.
Farrokhzadeh H, Hettiaratchi JPA, Jayasinghe P, Kumar S
Bioresource technology2017
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