Mr Hakan Bakir

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Research Engineer, Faculty of Engineering

Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (The University of Melbourne)

Hakan has over 18 years professional experience in a variety of organisations both in government and private sectors, including 8 years of research and consulting experience in the sugar industry.  Since joining the Bio-processing group at the Centre for Tropical Crops and Bio-commodities (CTCB), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Hakan’s main focus is in the area of colloidal and solution chemistry in the field of Separation Technologies.  He has acquired extensive knowledge and experience in process engineering systems and in the delivery of equipment and process designs which require deliverables such as Process Flow Diagrams, Heat and Mass Balances, Process and Instrumentation Diagrams, equipment selection and equipment layout.  Hakan has designed sedimentation and flotation clarifiers as well as retrofits to older designs for installations in sugar mills and refineries in Australia, and around the world in countries such as India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Myanmar, and several South American countries.  In addition, he has been extensively involved in the development of new clarifier designs for the sugar industry.  Hakan also trains sugar technologists and supervisors in the sugar manufacturing industry in the area of clarification and mud filtration.

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Professional Experience:  

  • 2014 to present Research Fellow, CTCB - Bioprocessing, Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology.
  • 2007 to 2014 Research Fellow, Sugar Research and Innovation, Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology.
  • 2006 to 2007 Shift Superintendent at Harwood Refinery & Mill, NSW Sugar Milling Co-operative.
  • 2003 to 2006 Process Improvement Co-ordinator, SDS Beverages Food and Wine, PTY LTD.
  • 1995 to 1997 Data Capture Officer, Lower Murray Water, VIC
  • 1993 to 1995Engineering Assistant, Wentworth Shire Council, NSW.
  • 1989 Junior Process Engineer, CHEMPLEX AUSTRALIA in Melbourne.
Title
Advanced Computer Simulation of Sugar Factories - SysCAD (3874)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT040
Start year
2010
Keywords
Mass Balances; Energy Balances; Process Simulation; Computer Simulation; Process Flowsheet
Title
Implement Supervisory/Advisory Control of Pan and Fugal Stations (3875)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT038
Start year
2010
Keywords
Supervisory Control; Fuzzy Logic; Expert Systems; Process Models; Forecasting
Title
Reducing the Economic and Environmental Risks of Large Scale Bagasse Storage Through Depithing
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT039
Start year
2010
Keywords
Bagasse; Dust; Pith; Combustion; Depiting
Title
Biomass Characterisation Facility for Extended Stockpile Model Accuracy and Capability (3951/3952)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT049
Start year
2011
Keywords
Biomass; Combustion; Model; Spontaneous; Storage
Title
Evaluate Brazilian mud filtration technology to increase the profitability and environmental performance of Australian factories (3959/3960)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT048
Start year
2011
Keywords
Cake Moisture; Mud Filtration; Retention; Rotary Vacuum Filtration; Technopulp
Title
Evaluation of mud filtrate clarification options to improve factory performance (3956)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT046
Start year
2011
Keywords
Clarification; Filtrate; Mud Recycle
Title
Improving the Performance and Specification of Evaporator Stations (3948/3949 - QUT050)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT050
Start year
2011
Keywords
Heat Transfer Coefficients; Juice Evaporation; Robert Evaporators
Title
Determination of factory processing procedures to better manage sugar quality issues(4045)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT057
Start year
2012
Keywords
Clarification; Crystallisation; Sugar Manufacturing; Sugar Quality
Title
Flocculation and Sedimentation of Slow Settling Mud and Mud Cake Conditioning(4055)
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
QUT056
Start year
2012
Keywords
Clarification; Clays; Flocculation; Juice; Sugar Manufacture