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Erkan Sahinkaya

Erkan Sahinkaya

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
5949
World Ranking
6550
National Ranking
8

Overview

Erkan Sahinkaya is affiliated with Istanbul Medeniyet University in Turkey and has a substantial body of work focused on environmental science, particularly in water treatment and membrane technologies.

Their research spans several main fields of study, with a prominent emphasis on Environmental Science. Subfields include Water Science and Technology, Pollution, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production

Erkan Sahinkaya has contributed to multiple notable journals with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent papers include:

  • Self-forming dynamic membrane bioreactor for textile industry wastewater treatment, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Effect of nitrogen loading on denitrification, denitritation and filtration performances of membrane bioreactors fed with biogenic and chemical elemental sulfur, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Performance of sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification process for nitrate removal from permeate of an MBR treating textile wastewater and concentrate of a real scale reverse osmosis process, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Effects of organic loading rate on methane production from switchgrass in batch and semi-continuous stirred tank reactor system, 2021, Biomass and Bioenergy
  • Sequential sulfur-based denitrification/denitritation and nanofiltration processes for drinking water treatment, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sahinkaya include:

  • Tülay Yılmaz
  • Emir Kasım Demir
  • Deniz Uçar
  • Senem Teksoy Başaran
  • Francesco Di Capua

Best Publications

  • Simultaneous heterotrophic and sulfur-oxidizing autotrophic denitrification process for drinking water treatment: Control of sulfate production

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Nesrin Dursun;Adem Kilic;Sevgi Demirel

  • Sulfur-oxidizing autotrophic and mixotrophic denitrification processes for drinking water treatment: elimination of excess sulfate production and alkalinity requirement.

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Nesrin Dursun

  • Pilot and full scale applications of sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification process for nitrate removal from activated sludge process effluent

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Adem Kilic;Bahadir Duygulu

  • Neural network prediction of nitrate in groundwater of Harran Plain, Turkey

    M. Irfan Yesilnacar;Erkan Sahinkaya;Muhsin Naz;Bestamin Ozkaya

  • Biological treatment and nanofiltration of denim textile wastewater for reuse

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Nigmet Uzal;Ulku Yetis;Filiz B. Dilek

  • Performances of anaerobic and aerobic membrane bioreactors for the treatment of synthetic textile wastewater.

    Adem Yurtsever;Erkan Sahinkaya;Özgür Aktaş;Deniz Uçar

  • Heterotrophic and elemental-sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification processes for simultaneous nitrate and Cr(VI) reduction

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Adem Kilic;Adem Kilic

  • Sulfur-based autotrophic denitrification of drinking water using a membrane bioreactor

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Adem Yurtsever;Özgür Aktaş;Deniz Ucar

  • Occurrence of disinfection by-products in low DOC surface waters in Turkey

    Nuray Ates;S. Sule Kaplan;Erkan Sahinkaya;Mehmet Kitis

  • Sulfidogenic fluidized bed treatment of real acid mine drainage water.

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Fatih M. Gunes;Deniz Ucar;Anna H. Kaksonen

  • Treatment of azo dye-containing synthetic textile dye effluent using sulfidogenic anaerobic baffled reactor.

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  • Performance of sulfidogenic anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) treating acidic and zinc-containing wastewater.

    Alper Bayrakdar;Erkan Sahinkaya;Murat Gungor;Sinan Uyanik

  • Biogas production from chicken manure: Co-digestion with spent poppy straw

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  • Biodegradation of 4-chlorophenol by acclimated and unacclimated activated sludge—Evaluation of biokinetic coefficients

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  • Simultaneous bioreduction of nitrate and chromate using sulfur-based mixotrophic denitrification process

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  • Separate recovery of copper and zinc from acid mine drainage using biogenic sulfide.

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  • Impact of SRT on the efficiency and microbial community of sequential anaerobic and aerobic membrane bioreactors for the treatment of textile industry wastewater

    Adem Yurtsever;Beste Calimlioglu;Erkan Sahinkaya

  • Biotreatment of zinc-containing wastewater in a sulfidogenic CSTR: Performance and artificial neural network (ANN) modelling studies

    Erkan Sahinkaya

  • Treatment of textile industry wastewater using dynamic membrane bioreactor: Impact of intermittent aeration on process performance

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Adem Yurtsever;Özer Çınar

  • Performance of a Sulfide-Oxidizing, Sulfur-Producing Membrane Biofilm Reactor Treating Sulfide-Containing Bioreactor Effluent

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Halil Hasar;Anna H Kaksonen;Bruce E Rittmann

  • Treatment of textile wastewater using sequential sulfate-reducing anaerobic and sulfide-oxidizing aerobic membrane bioreactors

    Adem Yurtsever;Özer Çınar;Erkan Sahinkaya

  • Analysis of the best available techniques for wastewaters from a denim manufacturing textile mill

    hande Yükseler;Niğmet Uzal;Erkan Şahinkaya;Mehmet Kitiş

  • Sulfidogenic biotreatment of synthetic acid mine drainage and sulfide oxidation in anaerobic baffled reactor.

    Ozan K. Bekmezci;Deniz Ucar;Anna H. Kaksonen;Erkan Sahinkaya

  • A novel elemental sulfur-based mixotrophic denitrifying membrane bioreactor for simultaneous Cr(VI) and nitrate reduction.

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Adem Yurtsever;Deniz Ucar

  • Biodegradation kinetics of 2,4-dichlorophenol by acclimated mixed cultures.

    Erkan Sahinkaya;Filiz B. Dilek

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna H. Kaksonen
Anna H. Kaksonen Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jaakko A. Puhakka
Jaakko A. Puhakka Tampere University
Mehmet Kitis
Mehmet Kitis Süleyman Demirel University
Zhiwei Wang
Zhiwei Wang Tongji University
Piet N.L. Lens
Piet N.L. Lens University of Galway
Eldon R. Rene
Eldon R. Rene IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Jerry M. Bigham
Jerry M. Bigham The Ohio State University
Bruce E. Rittmann
Bruce E. Rittmann Arizona State University
Zhichao Wu
Zhichao Wu Tongji University
Jinxing Ma
Jinxing Ma Guangdong University of Technology

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