Conference Program – Draft II 18. 06. 2008 Wednesday

15:00-18:00 Registration

18:00-20:00 Opening reception
19.06.2008 - Thursday

09:30 – 10:20	Opening Remarks
10:20 – 10:40	Coffee Break
Catalyst Preparation, Characterization and Regeneration
10:40 – 11:20	Invited Lecture: Catalysis and surface science: How much do we understand?	J.W. (Hans) Niemantsverdriet	Eindhoven University of Technology
11:20 – 11:40	Mechanical-chemical activation of Ni-Mo/γ-alumina catalysts for hydrodesulphurization	Stanislava Andonova, Chavdar Vladov, Ivan Mitov, Lychezar Petrov	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
11:40 – 12:00	Characterization of Nb2O5-ZrO2 mixed oxides synthesized from Nb(V) peroxo precursor as novel solid acids	Margarita Kantcheva, Olga Samarskaya, Hülya Budunoğlu, İlknur Çayırtepe	Bilkent University
12:00 – 12:20	Catalysis aspects of carbon nanofiber and nanotube production	Ahu Gümrah Dumanlı, Fatma Dinç, Ömer Faruk Mutaf, Taner Aytun and Yuda Yürüm	Sabancı University
12:20 – 12:40	Preparation of nanofiber catalysts by electrospinning	Özge Güvenir, *Oğuz Bayraktar	PETKİM, *İzmir Institute of Technology
12:40 – 13:40	Lunch Break
	Environmental Catalysis
13:40 – 14:20	Invited Lecture: Title TBC	Sonia Damyanova	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
14:20 – 14:40	NO2 and Dimethyl Ether (DME) reaction on Al2O3 as a catalyst	Emrah Özensoy, *D Herling, *Janos Szanyi	Bilkent University, *Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
14:40 – 15:00	Structural characterization and activity for ethanol electro-oxidation of carbon supported Pt–Sn bimetallic catalysts prepared by polyol method	Hilal Kıvrak, *Sadig Kuliyev, Deniz Üner	Middle East Technical University, *Vestel Defence Industries
15:00 – 15:20	Microwave assisted preparation of Pt based catalysts for PEMFCs	Ayşe Bayrakçeken, Lemi Türker, İnci Eroğlu	Middle East Technical University
15:20 – 15:40	Influence of ion-exchange resin catalysts on the reaction of the esterification of iso-butanol with propionic acid	Alime İzci, Halit Levent Hoşgün	Osmangazi University
15:40 – 18:30	Poster Session & Coctail

20.06.2008 - Friday

09:00 – 09:40	Invited Lecture: Propylene epoxidation on silver: A density functional study	Mehmet Ferdi Fellah, Işık Önal	Middle East Technical University
09:40 – 10:00	Density functional modeling of CO oxidation over unsupported Au	Tugba Davran-Candan, A. Erhan Aksoylu, Ramazan Yıldırım	Boğaziçi University
10:00 – 10:20	Characterization and EIS analysis of 8YSZ nano particles prepared via reverse micelle	S. Vatansever, F. Öksüzömer, S. N. Koç, *M. Somer, H. Deligöz, M. A. Gürkaynak	İstanbul University, *Koç University
10:20 – 10:40	Coffee break
Stream 1 – Industrial Catalysis
10:40 – 11:00	Sanayi Ar-Ge teşvikleri	Ziya Karabulut	Sanayi Bakanlığı
11:00 – 11:20	TÜBİTAK KAMAG	Mustafa Ay	TÜBİTAK
11:20 – 11:40	Catalysis in Petroleum Refineries	Nurten Bıçaklı	TÜPRAŞ
11:40-12:00	Catalysis In Petrochemical Industries	Nilüfer Yalçın	PETKİM
12:00 – 12:20	Catalysis in Bulk Chemicals Industries	Refik Onur	AKKİM
Stream 2 – Energy Technologies Platform
10:40 – 12:10	Panel Discussion
12:10 – 13:10	Lunch
SIGHTSEEING TOUR

21.06.2008 – Saturday

	Catalyst Preparation, Characterization and Regeneration
09:00 – 09:40	Invited Lecture: Redox catalysis with nanocrystalline zinc oxide	K. Kähler, J. Strunk, H. Noei, Y. Wang, X. Xia*, M. Muhler	Ruhr-University *University of California at Berkeley
09:40 – 10:00	Semi-conductor Metal oxide thin film glazes for ceramic tiles and glasses with photocatalytic self-cleaning activity	Tuğçe İrfan Ersöz, Burcu (Koç) Haskılıç, Beril Korkmaz, Gürkan Karakaş	Middle East Technical University
10:00 – 10:20	Synthesis and characterization of micro-mesoporous mixed-PILCs with varying pillar density	Nurgün Beşün, İlyas Deveci, Lütfi Erden, Hanife Erden	Muğla University
10:20 – 10:40	Coffee Break
	Environmental Catalysis
10:40 – 11:00	Effect of heat treatment on the activity of heteropoly acid catalysts in ETBE synthesis	Levent Değirmenci, Nuray Oktar, Gülşen Doğu	Gazi University
11:00 – 11:20	Kinetics of low temperature CO oxidation over activated carbon supported Pt-SnOx catalysts	Seda Acun, Şeyma Özkara-Aydınoğlu, A. Erhan Aksoylu, Z. İlsen Önsan	Boğaziçi University
11:20 – 11:40	Investigation of the microwave effect on catalyst synthesis for PEM Fuel Cells	Evren Ögür, Furkan Dündar, Aylin Aytaç, Ali Ata	Gebze Institute of Technology
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch Break
	Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals
13:00 – 13:20	The effect of Ce loading and impregnation Strategy on methane dry reforming activity of Ce promoted Pt/ZrO2	Şeyma Özkara-Aydınoğlu, *Emrah Özensoy, A. Erhan Aksoylu	Boğaziçi University *Bilkent University
13:20 – 13:40	Methanol dehydration reaction to produce clean diesel alternative dimethylether	Dilek Varışlı, Kenan Cem Tokay, Ayşegül Çiftçi, Timur Doğu, *Gülşen Doğu	Middle East Technical University, *Gazi University
13:40 – 14:00	Catalytic combustion of methane and hydrogen over precious metal monolith type catalyst	Alper Sarıoğlan, Özgür Can Korkmaz, Aslı Kaytaz, Atilla Ersöz, Fehmi Akgün	TÜBİTAK MAM Energy Institute
14:00 – 14:20	Partial regeneration of Ni-based catalysts for hydrogen production via methane cracking: Modeling and optimization	Reyyan Koç, Erdoğan Alper, *Eric Croiset, *Ali Elkamel	Hacettepe University, University of Waterloo
14:20 – 14:40	Development of active and selective catalysts for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane	Hilal Aykaç, *Selahattin Yılmaz	PETKİM, *İzmir Institute of Technology
14:40 – 15:00	Coffee Break
15:00 – 17:00	General Assembly Meeting