The Marmara Sea is a small (size 70 x 250 km) intercontinental basin connecting Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea. The population of Marmara region reaches to 25 million and therefore there is large number of domestic and ...

Petroleum is the most common raw energy source which causes soil and groundwater pollution during the exploration, refining, transport and storage. Since the physical and chemical treatment methods have some disadvantages ...

Anaerobic digestion is an immense technology for not only waste disposal but also biogas production for agricultural-based residues, however the economic value of the biogas is limited. The transition of anaerobic digestion ...

In recent years, discharges of the organic solvents have been subjected to stringent environmental regulations because of their undesirable effect on living organisms in aquatic environments and human health. Organic ...

Microorganisms especially fungi are utilized in biological pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass. In this particular study, Trametes versicolor were entrapped in Ca-alginate beads in order to use them in the pre-treatment ...

Lignocellulosic biomass, which is found in large amounts in nature and a significant part of it is considered as waste, is seen as one of the most promising source for green and renewable energy for various reasons. ...

A new species identification method is introduced in this thesis. For this method, Zooplankton and fish species from the Turkish coast of Black Sea are used as a dataset. The method uses High Resolution Melting (HRM) curves ...

Although lignocellulosic biomass are considered as an alternative biogas source, they also cause rate limitation in hydrolysis step of anaerobic digestion process, negative effect on the performance of anaerobic digesters ...

The main objective of the study was to determine the effect of different dosages of NaOH alkali pre-treatment on the lignocellulosic structures and the methane production of crops’ residues. In this regard, NaOH pre-treatment ...

In this PhD study, the advantage of highly-cellulolytic white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor and anaerobic rumen fungus Orpinomyces sp. was taken by aerobic pretreatment and bioaugmentation approaches in lignocellulose-based ...