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Overview

Mehmet Kitis is affiliated with Süleyman Demirel University in Turkey. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on applied studies that intersect strategy, management, water science, and industrial engineering.

The scientist's work incorporates several subfields including Strategy and Management, Water Science and Technology, Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. The main topics covered involve Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Environmental Policies and Emissions, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Extraction and Separation Processes, Adsorption and Biosorption for Pollutant Removal, and Textile Materials and Evaluations.

Mehmet Kitis has contributed to multiple publications, primarily appearing in the following venues:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Mühendislik Bilimleri ve Tasarım Dergisi
  • Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
  • Energy Efficiency

Their recent published papers include:

  • Improving energy efficiency using the most appropriate techniques in an integrated woolen textile facility (2020, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • Use of multi-criteria decision models for optimization of selecting the most appropriate best available techniques in cleaner production applications: A case study in a textile industry (2021, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • Green textile production: a chemical minimization and substitution study in a woolen fabric production (2020, Environmental Science and Pollution Research)
  • Selection of priority energy efficiency practices for industrial steam boilers by PROMETHEE decision model (2021, Energy Efficiency)
  • Economic and cross-media effect analyses of best available techniques for caustic recovery from mercerization textile wastewater (2022, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy)

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Mehmet Kitis are:

  • Emrah Öztürk
  • Elif Simsek Yesil
  • N.Ö. Yiğit
  • H. Köseoğlu
  • Alperen Kır

These collaborations indicate a network largely focused on environmental sustainability and cleaner production in textile and industrial contexts.

Best Publications

  • Disinfection of wastewater with peracetic acid: a review.

    Mehmet Kitis

  • A review of technologies for the recovery of metals from spent alkaline and zinc-carbon batteries

    Emine Sayilgan;T. Kukrer;Gökhan Civelekoglu;F. Ferella

  • Probing reactivity of dissolved organic matter for disinfection by-product formation using XAD-8 resin adsorption and ultrafiltration fractionation.

    Mehmet Kitis;Tanju Karanfil;Andrew Wigton;James E Kilduff

  • Formation of chlorination by-products in waters with low SUVA--correlations with SUVA and differential UV spectroscopy.

    Nuray Ates;Mehmet Kitis;Ulku Yetis

  • The effects of Fenton's reagent pretreatment on the biodegradability of nonionic surfactants

    M Kitis;Craig D. Adams;G Daigger

  • Treatment of woolen textile wastewater using membrane bioreactor, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis for reuse in production processes

    Nazlı Caglar Cinperi;Emrah Ozturk;Nevzat Ozgu Yigit;Mehmet Kitis

  • Role of Granular Activated Carbon Surface Chemistry on the Adsorption of Organic Compounds. 2. Natural Organic Matter

    Tanju Karanfil;Mehmet Kitis;James E. Kilduff;Andrew Wigton

  • The reactivity of natural organic matter to disinfection by-products formation and its relation to specific ultraviolet absorbance.

    M. Kitis;T. Karanfil;J. E. Kilduff;A. Wigton

  • Effects of several different flux enhancing chemicals on filterability and fouling reduction of membrane bioreactor (MBR) mixed liquors

    H. Koseoglu;N.O. Yigit;V. Iversen;A. Drews

  • Boron removal from seawater using high rejection SWRO membranes — impact of pH, feed concentration, pressure, and cross-flow velocity

    H. Koseoglu;N. Kabay;M. Yüksel;S. Sarp

  • Adsorption of natural organic matter from waters by iron coated pumice

    M. Kitis;S.S. Kaplan;E. Karakaya;N.O. Yigit

  • Acidic leaching and precipitation of zinc and manganese from spent battery powders using various reductants.

    E. Sayilgan;T. Kukrer;N.O. Yigit;G. Civelekoglu

  • Sustainable textile production: cleaner production assessment/eco-efficiency analysis study in a textile mill

    Emrah Ozturk;Hasan Koseoglu;Mustafa Karaboyaci;Nevzat O. Yigit

  • Heterogeneous catalytic degradation of cyanide using copper-impregnated pumice and hydrogen peroxide.

    Mehmet Kitis;Emine Karakaya;Nevzat O. Yigit;Gokhan Civelekoglu

  • Membrane fouling in a pilot-scale submerged membrane bioreactor operated under various conditions

    N.O. Yigit;I. Harman;G. Civelekoglu;H. Koseoglu

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

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

  • Adsorption-membrane filtration (AMF) hybrid process for boron removal from seawater : an overview

    N. Kabay;M. Bryjak;S. Schlosser;M. Kitis

  • Advanced oxidation of natural organic matter using hydrogen peroxide and iron-coated pumice particles.

    M. Kitis;S.S. Kaplan

  • Isolation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from surface waters using reverse osmosis and its impact on the reactivity of DOM to formation and speciation of disinfection by-products.

    Mehmet Kitis;James E Kilduff;Tanju Karanfil

  • Removal of disinfection by-product precursors by UF and NF membranes in low-SUVA waters

    Nuray Ates;Levent Yilmaz;Mehmet Kitis;Ulku Yetis

Frequent Co-Authors

Nalan Kabay
Nalan Kabay Ege University
Tanju Karanfil
Tanju Karanfil Clemson University
Craig D. Adams
Craig D. Adams Saint Louis University
Glen T. Daigger
Glen T. Daigger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ata Akcil
Ata Akcil Nazarbayev University
Marek Bryjak
Marek Bryjak Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Erkan Sahinkaya
Erkan Sahinkaya Marmara University
Ismail Koyuncu
Ismail Koyuncu Istanbul Technical University
Matthias Kraume
Matthias Kraume Technical University of Berlin

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