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BioMed Research International
Volume 2016, Article ID 8650597, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8650597
Research Article

Alkaline Pretreatment of Sugarcane Bagasse and Filter Mud Codigested to Improve Biomethane Production

Zahir Talha,1 Weimin Ding,1 Esmaeil Mehryar,1 Muhammad Hassan,1 and Jinhua Bi2

1College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210031, China
2Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Science, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210014, China

Received 16 April 2016; Revised 19 June 2016; Accepted 4 July 2016

Academic Editor: Wei-Hsin Chen

Copyright © 2016 Zahir Talha et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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