**Author details**

Didem Özçimen\* and Benan İnan

\*Address all correspondence to: ozcimen@yildiz.edu.tr

YıldızTechnical University, Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Bioengin‐ eering Department, Istanbul, Turkey

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