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Environmental Sciences
Turkey
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
10083
World Ranking
6966
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Turkey Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Turkey Leader Award

Overview

Süreyya Meriç is affiliated with Namık Kemal University in Turkey. Their research is concentrated primarily in the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Molecular Medicine.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within environmental and chemical engineering domains. These include:

  • TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
  • Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Extraction and Separation Processes

Recent publications demonstrate involvement in areas such as photocatalysis, hydrogel composites, and biofiltration for wastewater treatment. Some of the notable papers include:

  • Antimicrobial Effectiveness of Innovative Photocatalysts: A Review, 2022, Nanomaterials
  • Preparation and characterization of chitosan/AMPS/kaolinite composite hydrogels for adsorption of methylene blue, 2021, Polymer Bulletin
  • Preparation and characterization of chitosan/hyaluronic acid/itaconic acid hydrogel composite to remove manganese in aqueous solution, 2021, Desalination and Water Treatment
  • Photocatalytic Bacteria Inactivation by TiO2-Ag based Photocatalysts and the Effect on Antibiotic Resistance Profile, 2020, Current Analytical Chemistry
  • A critical review on biofiltration for wastewater treatment: Focus on organic micropollutants, 2022, Elsevier eBooks

Collaboration appears to be an important aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Deniz İ̇zlen Çifçi, Giusy Lofrano, Luisa Albarano, Maurizio Carotenuto, and Vincenzo Vaiano.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, displaying a diverse academic presence in journals and book publications such as:

  • Nanomaterials
  • Polymer Bulletin
  • Desalination and Water Treatment
  • Current Analytical Chemistry
  • Elsevier eBooks

Best Publications

  • Occurrence patterns of pharmaceuticals in water and wastewater environments

    Anastasia Nikolaou;Sureyya Meric;Despo Fatta

  • Pharmaceutical residues in environmental waters and wastewater: current state of knowledge and future research

    Despo Fatta-Kassinos;Sureyya Meric;Anastasia Nikolaou

  • Chemical and biological treatment technologies for leather tannery chemicals and wastewaters: a review.

    Giusy Lofrano;Sureyya Meriç;Gülsüm Emel Zengin;Derin Orhon

  • Color and COD removal from wastewater containing Reactive Black 5 using Fenton's oxidation process.

    Süreyya Meriç;Deniz Kaptan;Tuğba Ölmez

  • Overview of in-situ applicable nitrate removal processes

    Claudio Della Rocca;Vincenzo Belgiorno;Sureyya Meriç

  • Analytical methods for tracing pharmaceutical residues in water and wastewater

    D. Fatta;A. Achilleos;A. Nikolaou;S. Meriç

  • Polymer functionalized nanocomposites for metals removal from water and wastewater: An overview

    Giusy Lofrano;Maurizio Carotenuto;Giovanni Libralato;Rute F. Domingos

  • Degradation of diclofenac by TiO2 photocatalysis: UV absorbance kinetics and process evaluation through a set of toxicity bioassays.

    L. Rizzo;S. Meric;D. Kassinos;M. Guida

  • Antibiotic resistance genes in treated wastewater and in the receiving water bodies: A pan-European survey of urban settings.

    Damiano Cacace;Despo Fatta-Kassinos;Celia M. Manaia;Eddie Cytryn

  • Review on endocrine disrupting-emerging compounds in urban wastewater: occurrence and removal by photocatalysis and ultrasonic irradiation for wastewater reuse

    Vincenzo Belgiorno;Luigi Rizzo;Despo Fatta;Claudio Della Rocca

  • Heterogenous photocatalytic degradation kinetics and detoxification of an urban wastewater treatment plant effluent contaminated with pharmaceuticals

    Luigi Rizzo;S Meric;S Meric;M Guida;D Kassinos

  • Acute toxicity removal in textile finishing wastewater by Fenton's oxidation, ozone and coagulation–flocculation processes

    Süreyya Meriç;Hüseyin Selçuk;Vincenzo Belgiorno

  • Ultrasonic degradation, mineralization and detoxification of diclofenac in water: Optimization of operating parameters

    V. Naddeo;V. Belgiorno;D. Kassinos;D. Mantzavinos

  • Fate of pharmaceuticals in contaminated urban wastewater effluent under ultrasonic irradiation.

    V. Naddeo;S. Meriç;D. Kassinos;V. Belgiorno

  • Optimization of alum-coagulation/flocculation for COD and TSS removal from five municipal wastewater

    Marco Guida;Marialuisa Mattei;Clauido Della Rocca;Giovanni Melluso

  • An heterotrophic/autotrophic denitrification (HAD) approach for nitrate removal from drinking water

    Claudio Della Rocca;Vincenzo Belgiorno;Süreyya Meriç

  • DETERMINATION OF PAHs IN MARINE SEDIMENTS: ANALYTICAL METHODS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

    A. Nikolaou;M. Kostopoulou;G. Lofrano;S. Meric

  • Monitoring and modeling of trihalomethanes (THMs) for a water treatment plant in Istanbul

    V. Uyak;I. Toroz;S. Meriç

  • Cotton-supported heterotrophic denitrification of nitrate-rich drinking water with a sand filtration post-treatment

    Claudio Della Rocca;Vincenzo Belgiorno;Sureyya Meric

  • Application of oxidative removal of NOM to drinking water and formation of disinfection by-products

    M. Bekbolet;C.S. Uyguner;H. Selcuk;L. Rizzo

  • Investigation of the relation between COD fractions and the toxicity in a textile finishing industry wastewater: Effect of preozonation

    Gulen Eremektar;Huseyin Selcuk;Sureyya Meric

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Belgiorno
Vincenzo Belgiorno University of Salerno
Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo University of Salerno
Marco Guida
Marco Guida University of Naples Federico II
Derin Orhon
Derin Orhon Istanbul Technical University
Michel Warnau
Michel Warnau International Atomic Energy Agency
Vincenzo Naddeo
Vincenzo Naddeo University of Salerno
Giovanni Libralato
Giovanni Libralato University of Naples Federico II
Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Despo Fatta-Kassinos University of Cyprus
Dionissios Mantzavinos
Dionissios Mantzavinos University of Patras
Zacharias Frontistis
Zacharias Frontistis University of Western Macedonia

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