KTUN has 220 full-time faculty members and 250 research staff. Its main objective has always been focused on education and training of highly component professionals in various fields and has been in the top list of the frame of entrepreneurship and innovation universities. With its highly qualified staff, it has state of the art facilities to carry out research in the area of nanotechnology, advanced materials, and bioenergy. After being separated as three faculties from Selcuk University, KTUN has dedicated to the concept of widening international co-operation as a fundamental basis for high quality research activities and has highly tightened ties with industry in the region.
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences with its 13 departments has focused on carrying out different research projects in the fields as:
- Membrane technology (bulk, supported, activated and composite membranes, preparation and applications, UF/NF/RO processes and applications),
- Nanotechnology (synthesis, patterning, functionalization, surface treatment),
- Recovery technologies (raw materials, metals, minerals, food waste),
- Eco-innovation (Materials Recycling, Water),
- Physico-chemical treatment processes, photocatalysis,
- Applications of membranes processes for drinking water treatment and industrial wastewater treatment/reclamation,
- Film preparation and composite processing (CVD, PVD, LB, spin coating, layer-by-layer assembly, electrodeposition),
- Standardisation in research and innovation.
KTUN is an acknowledged scientific and engineering group with focus on research and innovation for industrial applications in the fields of membrane research and environmental nanosciences focusing metal and organizing removal of substances studies over 20 years. Recent and ongoing activities include the application of membrane filtration and biopolimers, activated carbon and natural adsorbents for metal and contaminated substances removal from aqueous solutions, the studies on ion exchange membranes (electrodialysis, diffusion dialysis, Donnan dialysis), hybrid processes (membrane filtration with adsorption processes), integrated membrane processes, liquid membrane applications in cooperation with international partners. KTUN has a strong industry base and has worked with various industry partners on projects for separation systems, membrane technology, chemical aspect of water treatment processes. KTUN has also contributed many journal papers and conference presentations.
Role in the project:
KTUN will lead WP1, providing overall project coordination, co-lead the design and development of the photocatalytic subsystem in WP4 and support WPs 2, 3, and 5-8.
Relevant Publications:
- Parlayici, Ş. (2019). Alginate-coated perlite beads for the efficient removal of methylene blue, malachite green, and methyl violet from aqueous solutions: kinetic, thermodynamic, and equilibrium studies. Journal of Analytical Science and Technology, 10(1), 4.
- Parlayıcı, Ş., & Pehlivan, E. (2019). Fast decolorization of cationic dyes by nano-scale zero valent iron immobilized in sycamore tree seed pod fibers: kinetics and modelling study. International journal of phytoremediation, 1-15.
- Parlayıcı, Ş., Yar, A., Pehlivan, E., & Avcı, A. (2019). ZnO-TiO 2 doped polyacrylonitrile nano fiber-Mat for elimination of Cr (VI) from polluted water. Journal of Analytical Science and Technology, 10(1), 24.
- Altun Türkan, Chitosan-coated sour cherry kernel shell beads:an adsorbent for removal of Cr(VI) from acidic solutions, Journal of Analytical Science and Technology, 10:14, 2019. doi.org/10.1186/s40543-019-0172-6.
- Altun Türkan, Ecevit Hüseyin, Cr(VI) removal using Fe2O3-chitosan-cherry kernel shell pyrolytic charcoal composite beads, Environmental Engineering Research, 25(3):426-438, 2020. Published online June 25, 2019. doi.org/10.4491/eer.2019.112.
Relevant Projects:
- COST 637 Removal of Arsenic from drinking water by using Membrane Processes, Project No: 106Y299, Researcher.
- 2016-1-TR01-KA203-034520″ “UNINANO-Universal Nanotechnology Skills Creation and Motivation Development”.
Infrastructure & Equipment
The relevant equipment for WasterFresh are as follows:
- PECVD, LPCVD), PVD, CVD systems
- Scanning Electron Microscope SEM (TEM for life Sciences), Ultra-High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (UHRTEM)
- Femtosecond/Nanosecond Laser-Time-Of-Flight (TOF) System, Linear/Reflectron-TOF Systems Pulse Laser Deposition (PLD) System
- XRD (GiSAXS)
- AFM-SNOM
- Lithography (without a mask)
- Thermal Analysis (DSC, TGA, DTA)
- Thin films laboratory
Also membrane pilot systems including plate-frame, spiral wounds and ceramic modules as given in the following figure.
