Catalyst Technologies and Reaction Engineering

Research Areas: 

Catalyst design 
Fuel cells and catalysis
Nanocatalysts
Hydrogen production technologies 
Development of solid catalysts and surface science 
Fuel and energy technologies
Artifical neural networks in catalysis
Catalytic microchannel reactors
Steady state/dynamic modeling and design of single/multi phase catalytic systems
Reactor and catalyst development for hydrocarbon-to-synthesis gas conversions under microfluidic conditions
Techniques for coating catalysts on microchannels
Novel reactors for gas-to-liquids (GTL) and biomass-to-liquids (BTL) processes

Ongoing Projects: 

-Bogazici University Scientific Research Project (July 2011 - July 2013). Combustion assisted steam reforming of light hydrocarbons in heat-exchange integrated microchannel reactors. PI: Ahmet Kerim Avci

-Bogazici University Scientific Research Project (April 2012 - April 2013). Knowledge extraction from literature for kinetics of catalytic reactions using data minin techniques PI: Ramazan Yildirim