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Nurudeen Ishola Mohammed1 \*, Nassereldeen Kabbashi1 and Abass Alade2

\*Address all correspondence to: sholanourou@yahoo.com

1 Bioenvironmental Engineering Research Centre (BERC), Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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2 Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria
