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Hamid Rezaei1 \*, Fahimeh Yazdanpanah1 , Jim Choon Lim1 , Anthony Lau1 and Shahab Sokhansanj1,2

1 Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2 Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

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