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
- Artificial 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 (2011 – 2013)
Combustion assisted steam reforming of light hydrocarbons in heat-exchange integrated microchannel reactors.
PI: Ahmet Kerim Avcı
Bogazici University Scientific Research Project (2012 – 2013)
Knowledge extraction from literature for kinetics of catalytic reactions using data mining techniques.
PI: Ramazan Yıldırım
Research Laboratories Catalyst Technologies and Reaction Engineering (CATREL)
