1-Group Objective:

Increase of energy demand, decrease of energy sources and climate change effects force us to develop alternative energy technologies based on national source. Our energy consumption is based on 35% oil, 27% natural gas 27% coal, 11% hydraulic and other renewable energy sources at 2005. Our country has rich lignite sources. Total reserve of lignite is 8,3 billon tones. Unfortunately the quality of the lignite is very low whereas ash and sulphur contents are very high. The 37% of the known lignite reserves are used. Beside, Turkey has big biomass potential mainly based on forestry and agricultural wastes. Biomass can be utilized for heating and electricity generation application. If the potential is used efficiently, it will be 8-10% addition to the national electricity production.

Sustainable development depends on using national resources. Improvement of clean technology where national coal and biomass are used has strategic importance. Our target is to be one of the best excellence centers all over the world about combustion and gasification of biomass and coal.

2-Group Studies:

1. Gasification technologies of coal and biomass,
2. Combustion technologies of coal and biomass,
3. Gas cleaning technologies
4. Integration with power systems
5. Solid, liquid and gas analyses
6. Biomass briquetting and pelletizing
7. Fuel preparation
8. Cyclone, heat exchanger and scrubber design
9. Process modelling and simulation

Gasification
Gasification is a process where organic fuels are turned into combustible synthesis gases (H2, CO, CH4...) under partial oxygen ambient. Conversion takes place at high temperatures (800-900 °C) with series of reactions. Gasification technologies is not only the efficient way of energy production from different fuels, but it is also an alternative way of waste disposal.

Combustion
Combustion is a process that converts the chemical energy of organic solid fuels into the heat. Heat is converted to the electricity with heat engine ( turbine, steam engine). Different kinds of combustion technologies are improved in order to increase the efficiency of the combustion and to decrease the emission level of harmful gasses in this thermodynamic cycle.

Projects

• "Gasification of Biomass and Coal, Gas Cleaning and Integration wıth Energy Productıon Systems, (State Planning Organization) 1 January 2005- 31 December 2008.
• Improvement of the S&T research capacity of TUBITAK-MRC IE in the fields of Integrated Biomass Gasification with Power Technologies, EU 6. FW, 1 May 2005 - 30 April 2008.
• Development Of Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) Technology and Investigation of Biomass/Lignite Coal Combustion, TUBITAK Turkish Research Area (TRA) Project, 1 September 2007 - 30 August 2010.
• Integrated European Network for Biomass Co-firing, NETBIOCOF, EU 6. FP, 15 August 2005 - 14 August 2007.

Last Updated: 23.08.2010