This project aims to bring a solution to water and energy issues by achieving an optimized and energy free disinfection of urban wastewater using novel solar assisted-treatment technologies for production of safe food and clean energy with reduced water footprint. More

Main outputs

- Bicer Y, Dincer I. Assessment of a sustainable electrochemical ammonia production system using photoelectrochemically produced hydrogen under concentrated sunlight. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2017, 5 (9), pp 8035–8043.

• Bicer Y, Dincer I. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopic assessment and analysis of a newly developed photoelectrochemical cell. Chemical Engineering: Process Intensification. 2017. vol: 117 pp: 141-153.

• Bicer Y, Dincer I. Performance assessment of electrochemical ammonia synthesis using photoelectrochemically produced hydrogen. International Journal of Energy Research. 2017. 41(14), pp.19872000.

• Bicer Y. Chedade G. Dincer I. Experimental investigation of various copper oxide electrodeposition conditions on photoelectrochemical hydrogen production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2017 42(10), pp.6490-6501.

• Bicer Y, Dincer I. Experimental investigation of a PV-Coupled photoelectrochemical hydrogen production system. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2017, 42(4), pp.2512-2521.

• Acar, C., Dincer, I., Energetic and exergetic investigations of an innovative light-based hydrogen production reactor. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 2018. 43, 10249–10257

• Acar, C., Dincer, I., Investigation of a unique integrated photoelectrochemical system for multigeneration purposes. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 2018. 1–11.

• Acar, C., Dincer, Thermodynamic analysis and experimental investigation of a unique photoelectrochemical hydrogen production system. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 2018. 43(9), 4223-4232.

• Bicer Y, Dincer I. Performance evaluation of a photoelectrochemical hydrogen production reactor under concentrated and non-concentrated sunlight conditions. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2018. 31;43(22):10258-67.

• Chehade, G., Demir, M. E., Dincer, I., Yuzer, B., & Selcuk, H. (2018). Experimental investigation and analysis of a new photochemical reactor for hydrogen production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43: 12049-12058.

• Acar, C., Dincer, I., Investigation of a novel photoelectrochemical hydrogen production system. Chem. Eng. Sci. 2019. 197, 74–86.

• Aguas Y., Hincapie M., Martínez-Piernas A. B., Agüera A., Fernández-Ibáñez P., Nahim-Granados S., and Polo-López M. I. Reclamation of Real Urban Wastewater Using Solar Advanced Oxidation Processes: An Assessment of Microbial Pathogens and Organic Microcontaminants Uptake in Lettuce and Radish. Environ. Sci. Technol., 53, 9705−9714, 2019.

• Bicer Y, Dincer I. Exergoeconomic Analysis and Optimization of a Concentrated Sunlight-driven Integrated Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen and Ammonia Production System. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2019, 44 (34), pp. 18875-18890.

• Cerreta G., Roccamante M. A., Oller I., Malato S., Rizzo L. Contaminants of emerging concern removal from real wastewater by UV/free chlorine process: A comparison with solar/free chlorine and UV/H2O2 at pilot scale. Chemosphere 236, 124354, 2019.

• Demir, M. E., Chehade, G., Dincer, I., Yuzer, B., & Selcuk, H. Design and analysis of a new system for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production from wastewater. Energy Conservation and Management. 2019, 199: 111903.

• Demir, M. E., Chehade, G., Dincer, I., Yuzer, B., & Selcuk, H. Synergistic effects of advanced oxidation reactions in a combination of TiO2 photocatalysis for hydrogen production and wastewater treatment applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Production. 2019, 44 (43), pp. 23856-23867.

• Hamda Mowlid NUR, Burak YUZER, M. Iberia AYDIN, Serdar AYDIN, Atakan ONGEN, Huseyin SELCUK Desalination and Fate of Nutrient Transport in Domestic Wastewater Using Electrodialysis Desalination and Waste Treatment, 2019, (323-329).

• M.I. Aydin, B. Yuzer, B. Hasancebi, H. Selcuk. Application of electrodialysis membrane process to recovery sulfuric acid and wastewater in the chalcopyrite mining industry. Desalination and Water Treatment 172 (2019) 206–211.

• Nahim-Granados S., Oller I., Malato S., Sánchez Pérez J.A., PoloLopez M.I. Commercial fertilizer as effective iron chelate (Fe3+EDDHA) for wastewater disinfection under natural sunlight for reusing in irrigation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 253, 286– 292, 2019.

• Yuzer B., Ciner F., Calhan R., Selcuk H., Meric S. Investigation of inhibition effects of different sol-gel based TiO2 nanoparticles on activated sludge and toxicity to Daphnia magna. Desalination and Water Treatment 172 (2019) 15–20.

• Cabrera Reina, S. Miralles-Cuevas, L. Cornejo, L. Pomares, J. Polo, I. Oller, S. Malato. The influence of location on solar photoFenton: Process performance, photoreactor scaling-up and treatment cost. Renewable Energy. 145, 1890-1900, 2020.

• Chehade G, Alrawahi N, Yuzer B, Dincer I. A photoelectrochemical system for hydrogen and chlorine production from industrial waste acids. Sci Total Environ. 2020 Apr 10;712:136358.

• G. Cerreta, M. A. Roccamante, P. Plaza-Bolaños, I. Oller, A. Aguera, S. Malato, L. Rizzo. Advanced treatment of urban wastewater by UV-C/free chlorine process: Micro-pollutants removal and effect of UV-C radiation on trihalomethanes formation. Water Research, 169, 115220, 2020.

• L. Rizzo, W. Gernjak, P. Krzeminski, S. Malato, C. S. McArdell, J. A. Sanchez Perez, H. Schaar, D. Fatta-Kassinos. Best available technologies and treatment trains to address current challenges in urban wastewater reuse for irrigation of crops in EU countries. Science of the Total Environment, 710, 136312, 2020.

• Samira Nahim-Granados, Gracia Rivas-Ibáñez, José Antonio Sánchez Pérez, Isabel Oller, Sixto Malato, María Inmaculada PoloLópez. Fresh-cut wastewater reclamation: Techno-Economical assessment of solar driven processes at pilot plant scale. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 278, 119334, 2020.

• Dincer I, Bicer Y. Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion. Comprehensive Energy Systems, Volume 4, Chapter 21, Oxford, UK, Elsevier, 2018.

• Dincer I, Bicer Y. Photonic energy production. Comprehensive Energy Systems, Volume 3, Chapter 17, Oxford, UK, Elsevier, 2018.

• Dincer I, Acar C. Photoactive Materials. Comprehensive Energy Systems Volume 2, Chapter 17, Oxford, UK, Elsevier, 2018.

• Dincer I, Acar C. Hydrogen Production. Comprehensive Energy Systems Volume 3, Chapter 1, Oxford, UK, Elsevier, 2018.

• Sixto Malato, Jaime Giménez, Isabel Oller, Ana Agüera, and José Antonio Sánchez-Pérez. Removal and Degradation of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds (PhACs) in Waste waters by Solar Advanced Oxidation Processes. Hdb Env Chem, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.