Friday, March 18, 2011

Dr Erden Sizgek, Dr Chris Griffith and Dr Victor Luca at Olympic Dam uranium mine and processing plant.

Devlet Sizgek & Erden Sizgek

A staff member, Mr David Stathers, Dr Victor Luca, Dr Erden Sizgek, Dr Chris Griffith and 
Dr Devlet Sizgek at the opening of Australian research reactor "OPAL".

Friday, February 25, 2011

Erden Sizgek

Short Biography
Dr. Sizgek (BSc., MSc. (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) and PhD. (UNSW, Australia) in Chemical Engineering), is a Chemical Engineer with over 25 years of professional experience in project, process, design, R&D engineering and management positions in petrochemical, polymer, fertiliser and glass industries in Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Saudi Arabia and Australia including the Institute of Materials Engineering of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Principal Research Scientist position. He is one of the two technology developers of a nuclear waste treatment technology from concept to full scale mock-up plant for producing a synroc waste form for immobilisation of Australian legacy waste arising from Mo-99 medical radioisotope production process. He currently holds Senior Research Scientist position at Material Science and Engineering Division of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Expertise
  • Applied research and technology development in the nuclear waste and materials processing technologies including process development, process design & scaling up and plant deployment. Development and scaling up of inorganic ion-exchanger materials for advanced nuclear fuel cycles.
  • Spray drying, atomisation, fluidisation, powder processing, drying, calcination and chemical reactor technologies.
  • Microwave assisted chemical processing technologies: Microwave heated impregnation, drying and fluidised bed calcining. Design and construction of microwave processing systems.
  • Sol-gel science and technology: Processing of colloidal dispersions, colloid chemistry, microemulsions, microsphere production technologies, porous materials, energetic sol gel materials.
Career Highlights & Achievements:
  • The significance of his achievements was recognised by three media publications released by ANSTO. He has been nominated by ANSTO for 2006 Awards of Excellence in Chemical Engineering of The Institution of Engineers Australia.
  • He has been elected as a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers Australia in September 2006.
  • He co-deployed construction of a full scale mock up plant for immobilisation of ANSTO Mo-99 legacy waste, which is based on the technologies he co-developed with Dr. Devlet Sizgek (2006).
  • Co-inventor (with Dr. Devlet Sizgek) of a patent for heating fluidised beds with microwave energy up to 1000°C (2004).
  • He succeeded integrating microwave heating with a commercially available processing technology by designing and building probably world's first microwave-heated ploughshare type mixer-drier on plant scale in 2003.
  • He designed and constructed Australia's largest sol-gel processing facility at ANSTO to produce synroc ceramic precursor powders on the basis of a unique chemical processing flowsheet he developed.

    ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA SYDNEY DIVISION FELLOWS’ LUNCHEON



    The luncheon was attended by 140 Fellows and their guests.Andrew Humpherson MP hosted the luncheon as he has kindly done for several years. Barry Grear AO, President Elect, World Federation of Engineering Organisations, was the guest speaker for the recent Fellows’ Luncheon at Parliament House.
    Few members are elevated to the grade of Fellow each year. It was very pleasing to see 17 members including 2 women, recognised by Amal Hanna Sydney Division President, in her last official presidential engagement. The new Fellows introduced by Amal were: David Boverman, Gregory Bowyer, Lawrence Cullen, Ian Donaldson, George Edwards, Noel Godfrey, Warren Green, Strutidevi Kelkar, Kwok Chuen Lau, Nicholas Lawther, Peter Masters, Alexander Nielsen, Andrew Pau, Murray Simpson, Dr Erden Sizgek, Veronica Thomas and Richard Woods.

    Devlet Sizgek

    Short Biography
    Dr Sizgek (BSc. (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey), MSc. (Bogazici University-Istanbul, Turkey) and PhD. (UMIST- UK) in Chem. Eng.), is a Chemical Engineer with over 25 years of experience in process development, chemical process design & operations,  material science & engineering and computational fluid dynamics. After completing her PhD, she spent 2.5 years at the University of New South Wales as a post doctoral fellow and about one year at Queensland Alumina Ltd. as strategic development engineer before joining (Principal Research Scientist) Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in 1994.

    Expertise
    • Nuclear waste processing, drying technologies, powder processing, microwave heated chemical processing technologies, fluidised bed calcining in particular application of nuclear waste treatment.
    • CFD applications including spray drying and heat transfer analysis of nuclear waste stores and repositories. 
    • Applied research and technology development in the nuclear waste treatment and ion-exchanger technology fields. 
    • Her expertise includes engineering and process development of metal alkoxide nano-structured mesoporous granular materials for the separation of radioisotopes and applications in nuclear fuel cycle.

    Career Highlights & Achievements
    • Group leader for successful demonstration of integration of immobilisation processing steps through inactive mockup trials (2005-2006).
    • Project leader for site legacy waste immobilisation project, leading into an implementation project with the approval of Capital Equipment Request (2001-2004).
    • She is one of the two developers of a nuclear waste treatment technology from concept to full scale mock-up plant for producing a targeted synroc waste form for immobilisation of Australian waste arising from Mo-99 medical radioisotope production process.
    • She co-deployed construction of a full scale mock up plant for immobilisation of ANSTO Mo-99 legacy waste, which is based on the technologies she co-developed with Dr. Erden Sizgek (2006).
    • The significance of her achievements was recognised by three media publications released by ANSTO.
    • Co-inventor (with Dr Erden Sizgek) of the patent for heating fluidised beds with microwave energy up to 1000°C (2004).

    Wednesday, January 12, 2011

    PUBLICATIONS (DEVLET SIZGEK)

    1.        G. Devlet Sizgek, C.S. Griffith, Erden Sizgek and V. Luca ”Mesoporous Zirconium  Titanate Oxides. Part 3. Synthesis, Porosity and Adsorption Properties of Hierarchical Beads, 2009, Langmuir 2009, 25(19) pp 11874-11882.
    2.        G. Devlet Sizgek, Erden Sizgek, Christopher S. Griffith and Vittoria Luca “Mesoporous Zirconium Titanium Oxides. Part 2. Synthesis, Porosity and Adsorption Properties of Beads”, Langmuir, 2008, 24(21) pp12323-12330.
           Christopher S. Griffith, G. Devlet Sizgek, Erden Sizgek, Nicholas Scales, Patrick J. Yee and Vittoria Luca “Mesoporous Zirconium Titanium Oxides. Part 1. Porosity Modulation and Adsorption Properties of Xerogels”, Langmuir, 2008, 24(21) pp 12312-12322.
          Vittoria Luca, Wilem Bertram, G. Devlet Sizgek, Bin Yang and David Cookson “Delineating the First Few Seconds of Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Mesostructured Titanium Oxide Thin Films through Time-Resolved Small Angle X-ray Scattering”, Langmuir, 2008, 24(19) pp10737-10745.
           Christopher S. Griffith, Erden Sizgek, G. Devlet Sizgek, and Vittoria Luca, “Potential process for the Decontamination of Pyroelectrometallurgical LiCl-KCl Eutectic salt Electrolyte”, ATALANTE 2008 Montpellier (France) EUROPART May 19-22, 2008.
           Luca V., Osborne M., Sizgek G. Devlet Griffith C. and Araujo, P. Z.  “Photodegradation of Methylene Blue using Crystalline Titanosilicate Quantum Confined Semiconductor” Journal of Chemistry of Materials 18 (26), 6182-6138 2006.
           G J Parsons, G Devlet Sizgek, E Sizgek, D. Kemp, Process Development for Processing of (a) Low Level Sludges and (b) Intermediate Level Liquid Waste at ANSTO, IAEA Co-ordinated Research Project Meeting for “New Developments and Improvements in Processing of ‘Problematic’ Radioactive Waste Streams”, November 2006, Mumbai, India.
           G.Devlet Sizgek and E. Sizgek, “Development of an Immobilisation Technology for Radioactive Waste Solutions from Mo-99 Production” Waste Management 2006, 25 February 2006 Tucson, Arizona USA.
          G J Parsons, G Devlet Sizgek, E Sizgek, K Fernando, K Lucas, Process Development for Handling, Treatment, Packaging and Disposal of Radioactive Wastes at ANSTO, IAEA Co-ordinated Research Project Meeting for “New Developments and Improvements in Processing of ‘Problematic’ Radioactive Waste Streams”, May 2005, Kiev (Russia).
    10·    Sizgek G. Devlet, “Three-dimensional thermal analysis of in-floor type nuclear waste repository for a ceramic waste form”, Nuclear Engineering Design 235 (1) pp 101-109, 2005.
    11·     V. Vegh and I Turner, E. Sizgek, G. Devlet Sizgek, (2004) Numerical Validation of Microwave Heated Fluidised Bed Calcination of Waste Containing Ceramic Powders, ANZIAM J., 45 (E), C100-C115.
    12·   Sizgek, E.; Sizgek, G. Devlet, Vegh V. and Turner I., “Numerical Validation of microwave heated fluidised bed calcination of waste containing ceramic powders,” Accepted for 5th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICAM 2003, Sydney, 7-11 July 2003.
    13·    E. Sizgek, G. Devlet Sizgek, V. Vegh and I Turner, Microwave Heated Fluidised Bed Calcination of Waste Containing Ceramic Powders, 3rd World Conference on Microwave & Radio Frequency Applications, Sydney, September 23-26, 2002.
    14·    E. Sizgek and G.Devlet Sizgek (2002) Drying Characteristic of Porous Ceramic Microspheres in a Microwave Heated Fluidised Bed, Chemical Engineering and Technology, 25, 3, 287-292 (Referenced in Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing in 2005 by Eldon D. Case under Microwave Processing of Ceramics, 1679-1687).
    15·   E. Sizgek and G.Devlet Sizgek, Microwave Heated Fluidised Bed Calcination of Waste Containing Ceramic Powders, 8th International Conference on Microwave High Frequency Heating, Bayreuth, Germany, September 2001.
    16·    Sizgek G. Devlet, “Thermal Considerations In A Very Deep Borehole Nuclear Waste Repository For Synroc” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 663, pp. 819-826 2000.
    17·   G. Devlet Sizgek and E. Sizgek (1999) Isothermal drying of porous ceramic microspheres in a microwave fluidised bed, Proceedings of International Microwave Power Institute 34th Annual Microwave Symposium, July, 18-21, Arlington, 46-49.
    18·   Sizgek G. Devlet, ‘Investigation of Conjugate Heat Transfer in Interim Storage of High Level Radioactive Waste’, Fundamentals of Combined Mode Heat Transfer, L. C. Witte ed., ASME, HTD-Vol 364-1, pp 61-68, Nov. 1999.
    19·   G. Devlet Sizgek and E. Sizgek, (1997) Microwave drying characteristics of impregnated synroc ceramic microspheres, Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, 32, 3, 171-179.
    ·         Sizgek G.Devlet, Sizgek E. and Hooper J.D., “Pressure Probe Measurements of Turbulent Flow in a Spray Drier with a Rotary Atomiser” Proc. Inter. Conf. on CFD in Mineral and Metal Processing, CSIRO, Melbourne, July 1997, pp 443-451.
    20·    Sizgek G.Devlet, Curry-Hyde E. H. and Wainwright M. S "Methanol Synthesis from Synthesis Gas over Cu and ZnO Promoted Cu Surfaces"; Applied Catalysis A:General, 115(1), 15-28, 1994.
    21·    Curry-Hyde E. H., Sizgek G.Devlet, Wainwright M. S. and Young D., Improvements to Raney Copper Methanol Synthesis Catalysts Trough Zinc Impregnation, (IV) Pore Structure and the Influence on Activity", Applied Catalysis A:General, 95 (1), 65-74, (1993).
    22·   Sizgek G.Devlet, Wang D., Wainwright M.S., Curry-Hyde H. E. "Raney Methanol Synthesis Catalysts-Development for Large Scale Application", APPChE&Chemeca '93, Conference, 1993, Melbourne, Australia.
    23·    Sizgek G.Devlet, Curry-Hyde H. E., Wainwright M. S.,           "Preliminary Investigations of Methanol Synthesis in a Membrane Reactor", Chemeca '92, 20th Australasian Chemical Conference 1992, Canberra, Australia.
    24·  Sizgek G.Devlet, Mann R., Papazian A., " Experimental and Simulation Studies on a Novel Continuous Flow Resin Polymerisation Reactor", IChemE 17th Annual Meeting, 5th of April 1990, Swansea, England.
    25·    Aksan (Sizgek) G. Devlet, Borak F., Onsan Z. I., "Heat Transfer Coefficients in Coiled Stirred-Tank Systems." The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 65, 1013, 1987.
    26·   Aksan (Sizgek) G.Devlet, Borak F., Onsan Z. I., "Determination of Heat Transfer Coefficients in Stirred-Tank Systems", Chemistry-86,      Third Chemistry and Chem. Eng. Symp. September 17-20, 1986, Ankara University, Turkey.