Our Faculty Member will Coordinate the SeaWHY Project

The project titled “Advanced Sea Water Electrolysis Technologies for Production of Green Hydrogen (SeaWHY)”, approved under the Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation (JFS) will be coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Suha Yazıcı.

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) will be coordinating project titled “Advanced Sea Water Electrolysis Technologies for Production of Green Hydrogen (SeaWHY)” approved by the European Commission, Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation (JFS).

SeaWHY project will be coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Suha Yazıcı from ITU Energy Institute with partners from Bulgaria (Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEES-BAS) and Brunei (Centre for Advanced Material and Energy Science, University Brunei Darussalam). Project will be funded for 3 years with a total budget of 301.000 Euro.

About SeaWHY Project

Purifying water for the electrolysis in the production of green hydrogen is energy intensive and brings additional costs and concerns when considering limited water re-sources. The project will develop PEM, alkaline and AEM electrolysis processes that can use unlimited seawater resources to produce hydrogen, sustainable fuels and chemicals. These outputs will contribute to the UN sustainability and development goals.

ITU team will include researchers from ITU Chemical Engineering (Prof. Dr. Alper Sarıoğlan), ITU Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aytekin Uzunoğlu) and Eskişehir Technical University Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (Prof. Dr. Ünal Şen).