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Dr. Özge Mutlu
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Work group leader

Field of work

Özge Mutlu received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 2017 from Istanbul Technical University, where she worked as a research assistant for more than five years. In her studies she focused on the slow and fast pyrolysis of biomass using different experimental and modeling approaches. During her studies, she was awarded as Jean Monnet scholar and worked as a “guest researcher” between 2016 and 2017 in the “Sustainable Process Technology” at the University of Twente group. In the Netherlands, she focused on the production and upgrading of biofuel in a fast pyrolysis pilot plant with an integrated guard bed reactor. Her doctoral thesis was recognized as one of the best dissertations of the year at Istanbul Technical University.

In 2018, she joined to Thermo-chemical Conversion department of DBFZ. Between 2018-2022, she worked in working group of “Demand-based Combined Heat and Power” and in 2022 switched to working group of “Climate Resilient Water-Energy-Food Systems”. Since May 2024, she leads the working group of “Biogenic Char Applications” focusing on all questions related to the production, characterization and further application of biogenic char.

Keywords

Biomass energy, thermochemical conversion technologies, pyrolysis, biochar, C-sink, modelling, process development

My publications

Publications of Özge Mutlu

Curriculum vitae

Since 2024Working group leader “Biogenic Char Applications” at DBFZ in Thermo-chemical Conversion department
2022 - 2024Research associate in working group “Climate Resilient Water-Energy-Food Systems” at DBFZ in Thermo-chemical Conversion department
2018 - 2022Research associate in working group “Demand-based Combined Heat and Power” at DBFZ in Thermo-chemical Conversion department
2017Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey with thesis titled as “Different approaches in biomass pyrolysis: Artificial Neural Network Application & Guard bed Reactor Integration”
2016 - 2017Guest researcher as Jean Monnet scholar in the working group of “Sustainable Process Technology” at University of Twente in the Netherlands with project titled as “The Role of Guard-Bed Reactor in the Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass”
2012 - 2017Research assistant in chemical engineering department at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey
2011M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Anadolu University in Turkey with thesis titled as “Co-pyrolysis of biomass-plastic blends by thermogravimetric analyzer & fixed-bed reactor: The characterization of the products”
2009B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Anadolu University in Turkey