TUBITAK MARMARA RESEARCH CENTER

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) is the public agency put in charge of promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with the national targets of economic development and technical progress. Marmara Research Center (MAM), one of the research and development units of TUBITAK, was established in 1972. The aim of TUBITAK Marmara Research Centre (MAM) is to conduct applied research projects integrated with national and international industrial entities in a customer-focused policy.

TUBITAK MAM Clean Energy Technologies Group involved clean energy production Technologies of biomass, gasification, pyrolysis and their utilization for power and/or valuable gas/liquid fuels or chemicals production technologies. The group accomplishes prototypes/process/pilot or labscale systems through these studies. Some of the research facilities at laboratory and pilot scale levels are given below.

 AREAS OF EXPERTISE

-        Design and commissioning of biomass gasification systems (fixed bed, bubbling and circulating fluidized bed, entrained bed gasification) from laboratory up to pilot scale

-        Design and commissioning of biomass combustion systems (fluidized bed and pulverized combustor) from laboratory up to pilot scale

-        Biomass oxy-combustion (atmospheric and pressurized) for carbon capturing applications

-        Conceptual and detailed design of biomass pyrolysis systems

-        Biomass pre-treatment applications (torrefaction, drying, etc.)

-        Liquid fuel/chemicals (Metahanol, olefin and DME etc.) production from synthesis gas (Fischer Tropsch Synthesis)

-        SNG production from synthesis gas

-        Electrochemical conversion technologies

-        Heterogeneous catalyst development, characterization and tests

-        Hydrogen production from biomass and different sources/purification technologies

-        CO2 capturing technologies

-        Catalytic upgrading of pyrolysis oil

-        Syngas cleaning technologies for XTL and CHP applications (i.e. tar, sulfur removal)

-        Cyclone, heat exchanger and scrubber design

-        Solid fuel preparation (drying, grinding, sieving, briquetting and pelletizing)

-        Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling and process simulation

-        Utilization of waste products for energy recovery and fuel production

-        CHP applications (Organic Rankine Cycle, Stirling Engine)

-        Synfuel characterization

-        Physical and chemical characterization of solid (coal, biomass) liquid (coal, biomass, char, ash, tar, bio-oil, and gaseous fuels (flue gas, producer gas, syngas, pyrolysis gas)

Current International Projects

•       Efficient Low-Cost CO2 Capture from Waste-Derived Fuels Using Chemical Looping Combustion (Horizon, ACT)

•       PYRAGRAF-Decentralized pyrolytic conversion of agriculture and forestry wastes towards local circular value chains and sustainability (Horizon Europe)

•       SUSTEPS Sustainable, Secure and Competitive Energy Through Scaling Up Advanced Biofuel Generation -  EU Horizon Project

•       Energy Storage Through Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol (ESCARMET)- TUBİTAK İkili İşbirliği Projeleri