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Article Citation - WoS: 19Citation - Scopus: 23Valorization of Hazelnut Shell Waste in Hot Compressed Water(Elsevier Ltd., 2017) Gözaydın, Gökalp; Yüksel, AslıHydrothermal conversion of waste hazelnut shell in hot compressed water, green and environmentally friendly medium, was investigated under different operating conditions to clarify the effects of reaction temperature, reaction time, acid concentration and acid kind (H2SO4 and H3PO4) on the production of value-added chemicals with high temperature/high pressure autoclave. In literature, to our best knowledge, there is no study about the production of levulinic acid, as a high value chemical, from waste hazelnut shell in hot-compressed water without using any mineral and heterogeneous catalyst. Hydrothermal reactions were conducted at 150–280 °C for reaction times of 15 to 120 min with various H2SO4 and H3PO4 concentrations varying from 0 to 125 mM. The detailed liquid product species were identified with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and gaseous products were analyzed by Gas Chromatography with a Thermal Conductivity Detector (GC-TCD). The main identified liquid compounds were levulinic acid, acetic acid and furfural while carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide were the major gaseous products. Increasing the reaction temperature (280 °C) and reaction time (120 min) resulted in a significant increment on the conversion (65.40%) as well as levulinic acid yield (13.05%). The production of levulinic acid was enhanced with H2SO4 addition; whereas treatments with H3PO4 improved the furfural production.Article Citation - WoS: 12Citation - Scopus: 13The Extended Graetz Problem for Micro-Slit Geometries; Analytical Coupling of Rarefaction, Axial Conduction and Viscous Dissipation(Elsevier Ltd., 2016) Kalyoncu, Gülce; Barışık, MuratIn order to support the recent MEMS and Lab-on-a-chip technologies, we studied heat transport in micro-scale slit channel gas flows. Since the micro convection transport phenomena diverges from conventional macro-scale transport due to rarefaction, axial conduction and viscous heating, an accurate understanding requires a complete coupling of these effects. For such cases, we studied heat transfer in hydrodynamically developed, thermally developing gas flows in micro-slits at various flow conditions. The analytical solution of the energy equation considered both the heat conduction in the axial direction and heat dissipation of viscous forces. Furthermore, updated boundary conditions of velocity slip and temperature jump were applied based on Knudsen number of flow in order to account for the non-equilibrium gas dynamics. Local Nusselt number (Nu) values were calculated as a function of Peclet (Pe), Knudsen (Kn) and Brinkman (Br) numbers which were selected carefully according to possible micro-flow cases. Strong variation of Nu in thermal development length was found to dominate heat transfer behavior of micro-slits with short heating lengths for early slip flow regime. For this instance, influence of axial conduction and viscous dissipation was equally important. On the other hand, high Kn slip flow suppressed the axial conduction while viscous heating in a small surface-gas temperature difference case mostly determined the fully developed Nu and average heat transfer behavior as a function of Kn value.Article Citation - WoS: 34Citation - Scopus: 37Steam Gasification of Safflower Seed Cake and Catalytic Tar Decomposition Over Ceria Modified Iron Oxide Catalysts(Elsevier Ltd., 2014) Duman, Gözde; Watanabe, Taichi; Uddin, Md Azhar; Yanık, JaleCatalytic steam gasification of safflower seed cake was carried out using a double-bed microreactor in a two-stage process in the presence of ceria oxide (CeO2) modified iron oxide (Fe2O3) catalysts with different CeO2-Fe2O3 ratios. The effects of both catalyst and the temperature of catalytic bed on the tar decomposition and the overall gaseous product yield were investigated comparatively. It was found that ceria modified iron oxide catalysts had higher reactivity than that of the individual Fe2O3 and CeO2 for the catalytic tar decomposition in safflower seed cake steam gasification. The CeO2-Fe2O3 catalyst with 50 wt.% of Fe 2O3 exhibited the excellent performance for tar conversion at 700 °C. A comparison of tar decomposition from thermal run and catalytic run showed that in thermal run tar decomposition was progressed via steam reforming only. However, in the presence of catalyst, tar decomposition occurred via both steam reforming and water gas shift reaction. As a conclusion, ceria promoted iron catalysts were found to be active for both hydrogen production and tar decomposition in steam gasification of lignocellulosic biomass.
