ONGOING PROJECTS

  1. TÜBİTAK 1001, “Development of High-Performance Polymer-Based Hollow Fiber Membranes Incorporating MXene Nanosheets as a Selective Layer for Clean Hydrogen and Methane Production from Syngas” (Project No. 222M060), Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Birgül Tantekin Ersolmaz, Project Start Date: January 2023, Project Duration: 36 months.

     

  2. TÜBİTAK 1004 Technology Platform “Environmentally Friendly Sustainable Advanced Vehicle Technologies (ILATERA) Project” (Project No. 22AG018), under Work Package 5 titled “Development of Hydrogen-Based Fuel Properties Suitable for PEM Fuel Cells and Internal Combustion Engines”. Project Researchers: Prof. Dr. Hasan Can Okutan, Prof. Dr. Alper Sarıoğlan, Project Start Date: February 2023, Project Duration: 4 years.

     

  3. TÜBİTAK BİDEB 2232-B International Young Researchers Program, “Thermochemical Synthesis of Carbon- and Metal-Based Nanoparticles Derived from Biomass for Bioenergy Production and Antimicrobial Applications”. Principal Investigator: Assist. Prof. H. Enis Karahan, Project Start Date: October 2024, Project Duration: 4 years.

     

  4. TÜBİTAK 2218 Domestic Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, “Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Value-Added Products in the Presence of Layered Double Hydroxides”, Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ali Rezza Khataee, Project Start Date: November 2024, Project Duration: 24 months.

     

  5. HORIZON Europe Framework Programme, “Efficient Compact Modular Thermal Energy Storage System – ECHO Project”, supported under the HORIZON Europe Framework Programme CL5-2022-D3-01: Sustainable, Secure and Competitive Energy Supply 2022 Call. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. A. Alper Aydın, Project Start Date: January 2023, Project Duration: 36 months.

     

  6. “Carbon Fiber Production from Coal and Its Derivatives Project”, supported by the General Directorate of Turkish Coal Enterprises (TKİ) and conducted via ITU Technopark TTO (No. 1773), with Work Package 2 carried out within our Center. Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Sabri Çelik, Project Start Date: December 2023, Project Duration: 36 months.

     

  7. “Development of an Integrated CO₂ Capture and Slag Mineralization Process for Steel Production Project”, supported by the Turkish Energy, Nuclear and Mining Research Agency (TENMAK) under the R&D Incentives Carbon Dioxide Technologies Call, with Work Packages 3, 4, and 5 conducted within our Center. Project Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hasan Can Okutan, Project Researcher: Prof. Dr. Alper Sarıoğlan, Project Start Date: July 2024, Project Duration: 36 months.

     

  8. TÜBİTAK TEYDEB 1501, “Multi-Purpose Facility Modeling, Analysis, Testing and Validation Platform for Green Transformation” (Project No. 3250619), conducted in collaboration with Armelsan Energy Inc. and ITU, with Work Packages 4 and 5 under the responsibility of ITU SENTEK. Project Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hasan Can Okutan, Project Start Date: October 2025, Project Duration: 24 months.

     

  9. ITU BAP, Purification of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Using Solvent-Resistant MXene-Based Membranes”, Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Ş. Birgül Tantekin Ersolmaz, BAP PhD Thesis Project (Aysa Güvensoy Morkoyun), Project Start Date: August 2024.

     

  10. ITU BAP, “Polymer Nanocomposite CO₂ Separation Membranes Reinforced with Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials”, Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Birgül Tantekin Ersolmaz, BAP PhD Thesis Project (Cansu Yıldırım), Project Start Date: August 2024.

     

  11. LEAP-SE (Long-Term Joint EU–AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Sustainable Energy), “BioHyPEM Project”. Project Partners: CRTEn – Energy Research and Technology Center (Tunisia), EPRI – Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (Egypt), (CNRS UPC) – Université Paris Cité, UMR 7086 (France), (CNRS-UPEC) – Université Paris-Est Créteil, UMR 7182 (France), (UTT) – University of Technology of Troyes (France), (CNR-ITAE) – Institute of Advanced Energy Technologies (Italy), (NOVA FCT) – NOVA School of Science and Technology (Portugal), Chitelix (Tunisia), BECOME Institute (France). Project Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Suha Yazıcı, Project Researcher: Prof. Dr. Alper Sarıoğlan, Project Start Date: January 2026.