HARUN BILIRGEN, Ph.D.                                                                                                                                      

Experience   
2018 – Present TABi Engineering and Energy Technologies Inc., Turkey
2014 – 2017     GENTEK Energy and Technologies Inc, Turkey
2012–2014       Principal Research Scientist at Energy Research Center, Lehigh University, USA
2007– 2012      Senior Research Scientist at Energy Research Center Lehigh University, USA
2001–2007       Research Scientist at Energy Research Center Lehigh University, USA 
2000– 2001      Assoc. Prof. Dr., Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey
1993-2000        Research Assistant at Energy Research Center Lehigh University, USA
1992-1993        Research Assistant at Cukurova University, Turkey                                   

Research and Industrial Projects – Highlights

• NO_x, SO_x, particulate, mercury, and CO₂ emissions control from coal-fired power plants

• Thermal efficiency and availability improvements of fossil-fired power plants through combustion optimization and equipment design improvements – extensive field experience

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling for fundamental research and equipment design and optimization for industry

• Combustion Optimization

• Industrial assessments as a lead assessor

• Design, construction, and instrumentation of experimental test facilities

• Waste and low-grade heat recovery and its integration to the process

• CO₂ emission reduction technologies

• Photo bio-reactor design and construction for cultivating algae for carbon fixation using wastewater and CO₂ from flue gas

• Slagging and fouling prevention in coal-fired power plants  

• Water recovery from flue gas via condensing heat exchangers

• Engineering equipment and component design using advanced engineering techniques

• Experimental instrumentation and techniques

• Stoker boilers – performance improvements and emissions reductions

Past and Current Grant Sources as PI and Co-PI

• Department of Energy, NETL – DOE – National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Ben Franklin Technology Partners

• EPRI – The Electric Power Research Institute

• Electric Generation Companies such as PPL, PSE&G, GRE, Cogentrix, Detroit Edison, and Constellation Energy

• Boiler Equipment Companies such as Babcock & Wilcox, Foster Wheeler, Babcock Borsig, United Conveyor corporation, O’Brien and Gere, and Odyssey Green Energy

• Anadolu Birlik Holding, Diler Holding, AKSA Co., Kayseri Sugar Plant Co.

• TUBITAK – Turkish Scientific and technological Research Council

• KOSGEB – small and medium industry development organization)

Management and Organizations

• Small and large-scale project managements in electric utilities

• One of the key speakers at the “Annual Energy Liaison Program” meetings for 10 years

• One of the key speakers at the “Power Plant Short Course” meetings for 4 years

Invited Seminars

• Panelist – INTERNATIONAL CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT & FAIR, 10-11 April 2018, Istanbul

• Panelist – EIF – Energy in Future, 3-4 Kasim 2016, Ankara

• Panelist – EIF – Energy in Future, 8-9 Kasim 2018, Ankara

• Panelist – Coal, Energy and Power Plants, The 20th Coal Congress of Turkey organized by the Zonguldak Branch of the Chamber of Mining Engineers, May 4-6, 2016 in Zonguldak, Turkey.

• Review of Combustion Technologies, Cukurova University, October 10, 2014.

• Regulating CO₂ under 111(d):Options, Limits, and Impacts – Unit-level Efficiency Considerations for Coal-fired Power Plants, Duke University – Nicholas Institute for Environmental policy Solutions, October 3, 2012, Washington, DC

• Uncovering advanced coal combustion technologies to improve the efficiency of your Coal-fired New Build, New Build South-East Europe, October 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

• Particle Roping and Dispersion in Dilute Phase Pneumatic Conveying”, Universidad Michoacana De San Nicolas De Hidalgo Facultad De Ingenieria Mecanica, Morela, 2007, Mexico

• Optimizing Boiler Operations for Emissions Control, Lehigh Valley Environmental Innovations Conference, Bethlehem, September 20, 2007,

• Future Energy Technologies – options for Turkey: Brainstorming Meeting, invited by Turkish Coal Enterprises and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Abant, Turkey, May 2010

• Workshop on Promoting Local manufacturing Industries in Turkey, invited by Nurol Holding Inc., Ankara, Turkey, March 2011

• International Energy and Environment Fair and Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2009

• Middle East Technical University and Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers And Architects, 2009, Ankara, Turkey

International Project Activities

• Mexico – Combustion optimization in an oil-fired boiler and industrial assessments in small and mid – sized manufacturing plants

• China – Combustion optimization in a coal-fired boiler and conducting marketing efforts for the ERC technologies

• England and Germany – Feasibility of implementation of ERC’s patented coal flow balancing technology in a coal-fired boiler

• Canada – Evaluations of five coal-fired units for solving their operational problems

• Turkey – Combustion optimization for efficiency improvement & emission reductions, development of coal drying and enhancement system for low quality lignite coals, mitigating slagging and fouling problems and CFD modeling for design improvements of coal-fired power plants.

2001– 2002      Research Associate, Chemical Engineering Department, Lehigh University

• Welding fume control – design, construction and evaluations of a miniature hood

• Setting up a two-color pyrometer system for measuring metal droplet temperatur

2000– 2001      Assistant Professor, Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey

• Teaching Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, and Numerical Methods in Engineering

EDUCATION

Ph.D.               Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA, 2000.

Mixing and Dispersion of Particle Ropes Downstream of Elbow

M.S.                 Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA, 1996.

The Numerical Simulation of Gas-Solid Particle Flow in Confined Geometries

B.S.                 Mechanical Engineering, Cukurova University, Adana, TURKEY, 1992, first rank.

CO-ADVISING GRADUATE STUDENTS

• Aly Abdelaziz Elshabasy, Dispersed-Phase Flow Control In Boilers With Pressurized Vertical Spindle Mills, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2006

• Christopher Samuelson, Recovery of Water From Boiler Flue Gas, MS Thesis, 2008

• Kwangkook Jeong, Condensation of Water Vapor and Sulfuric Acid in Boiler Flue Gas, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009

• Can Koroglu, Control of Coal Flow in Pressurized Vertical Spindle Mills with Four Outlet, MS Thesis, 2009

• Stephen Dunbar, Experimental and Numerical Studies of Condensing Heat Exchangers used in Flue Gas Water Recovery Systems, 2010, MS Thesis

• Michael John Kessen, Recovering Sensible and Latent Heat from Flue Gas, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

AWARDS

• High Honor Certificate – First Ranking Graduate in CU Engineering Department, 1992

• Scholarship by Turkish Higher Education Council as a result of Nationwide exam, 1993

• 2^nd Best Paper Award – Power-Gen International, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2011

US PATENTS

• Engelmann, D., Bosshart, S., Fleckten, E., Bilirgen, H., and LeDain, R., In-line Mill Assembly with Spreader Ring, U.S. Patent No: US 9446383, Recordation Date: September 20, 2016

• Engelmann, D., Bosshart, S., Fleckten, E., Bilirgen, H., In-line Mill Assembly with Spreader Ring, U.S. Publication No: US 501998329, Recordation Date: July 23, 2012

• Bilirgen, H., Levy, E. K., and Elshabasy, A., On-line Coal Flow Control Mechanism for Vertical Spindle Mills, U.S. Patent No: 8,181,584, May 22, 2012

• Levy, E. K., Bilirgen, H., and Elshabasy, A., On-line Coal Flow Control Mechanism for Vertical Spindle Mills, U.S. Patent No: 7,549,382, June 23, 2009.

• Levy, E.K., Bilirgen, H., and Yilmaz, A., Adjustable Air Foils for Balancing Pulverized Coal Flow at a Coal Pipe Splitter Junction, U.S. Patent No: 7,013,815, March 21, 2006.

• Levy, E. K., Bilirgen, H., and Elshabasy, A., On-line Control of Coal Flow, U.S. Patent No: 6,966,508, November 22, 2005.

• Levy, E. K., Yilmaz, A., and Bilirgen, H.,, Adjustable Flow Control Elements for Balancing Pulverized Coal Flow at Coal Pipe Splitter Junctions, U.S. Patent No: 6,789,488, Issued on September 14, 2004.

TURKISH PATENTS

• Bilirgen, H., Waste Heat Utilizing Coal Drying and Enhancement System for Coal-fired Power Plants, TR 2013 06134 B, May 22, 2013

• Bilirgen, H., Coal Layout Detection and Prevention System in Pneumatic Conveying lines, 2018

PUBLICATIONS – (Journal)

• Bilirgen, H., Energy and Mine, Enhancement of Lignite using Waste Heat from Coal-fired power plants, Vol. 5, No. 14, July-September, 2016.

• Bilgili, M., Bilirgen, H., and Ozbek, A., An Overview of Hydropower Installations and Developments in the World and Turkey, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, submitted on May 30, 2016.

• Bilirgen, H., Slagging In PC Boilers and Developing Mitigation Strategies, FUEL, Volume 115, Pages 618-624, January 2014.

• Bilirgen, H., Dunbar, S., and Levy, E. K., Numerical Modeling of Finned Heat Exchangers Used For Cooling Power Plant Flue Gas, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 61, Issue 2, Pages 278–288, 3 November 2013.

• Bilirgen, H., and Romero, C., Mercury capture by boiler modifications with sub-bituminous coals, FUEL Volume 94, Pages 361–367, April 2012.

• Bilirgen, H., Performance Improvements and Rehabilitation Needs in Thermal Power Plants, Engineer and Machine, Volume 52, Issue 617, Pages: 107-115 (in Turkish), June 2011.

• Bilirgen, H., Accuracy analysis of the window overlapping technique for velocity measurements using artificial and real signals, Powder Technology, Volume 201, Issue 2, Pages 138-145, July 2010.

• Jeong, K., Kessen, M., J., Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E., K., Analytical modeling of water condensation in condensing heat exchanger, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 53, Issues 11-12, Pages 2361-2368, May 2010.

• Romero, C., Sarunac, N., Moreno, R., Yao, Z., and, Bilirgen, H., Optimization of a 350 MW Oil-fired Boiler in Mexico for NOx and Particulate Matter Emissions Control, Ingenieria Mecanica Tecnologia Y desarrollo, Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 10-16, 2008.

• Romero, E.R., Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., Levy, E.K., Field Experience with Mercury Emissions Control From Coal-fired Power Plants by Boiler Optimization, International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment, Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 287-304, 2007

• He, B., Cao, Y., Romero, C.E., Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., Agarwal, H., and Pan, W.P., Comparison and validation of OHM and SCEM measurements for a full-scale coal-fired power plant, Chemical Engineering Communications, Volume 194, Pages 1596-1607, 2007.

• Romero, C., Li, Y., Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., and Levy, E. K., Modification of Boiler Operating Conditions for Mercury Emissions Reductions in Coal-Fired Utility Boilers, FUEL, Volume 85, Issue 2, pages 204 – 212, January 2006.

• Romero, C., Sarunac, N., Levy, E. K., and, Bilirgen, H.,and A Review of Techniques to Improve Measurement Accuracy in Power Plant Reported Emissions of NO_x and SO₂, Ingenieria Mecanica Tecnologia Y desarrollo, Volume 1, Issue 6, Pages 215-222, 2005.

• Turkmen, N., Bilirgen, H., Guillermo, A. V., and Caram, H., Development of Lightweight Fume Hood for Handheld Welding Guns, Welding Journal, Volume 84, Issue 2, Pages 31-36s, February 2005.

• Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E. K., Mixing and Dispersion of Particle Ropes in Lean Phase Pneumatic Conveying, Powder Technology, Volume 119, Pages 134-152, 2001.

• Bilirgen, H., Levy, E. K., and Yilmaz, A., Prediction of Pneumatic Conveying Flow Phenomena Using Commercial CFD Software, Powder Technology, Volume 95, Pages 37-41, 1998.

PUBLICATIONS – (Conference)

• Bilirgen, H., Panelist – Coal, Energy and Power Plants, The 20th Coal Congress of Turkey organized by the Zonguldak Branch of the Chamber of Mining Engineers, May 4-6, 2016 in Zonguldak, Turkey.

• Bilirgen, H. and Alis, H., Rehabilitation and Upgrade Needs of Coal-Fired Power Plants, 21st International Energy & Environment Fair & Conference, May 6 to 8, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Bilirgen, H., Bilirgen, F. and Karadut, M., Field Performance Tests of an Innovative Coal Drying and Enhancement System at Afsin-Elbistan Power Plant, 21st International Energy & Environment Fair & Conference, May 6 to 8, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Bilirgen, H., Uncovering advanced coal combustion technologies to improve the efficiency of your Coal-fired New Build, New Build South-East Europe, October 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Bilirgen, H., Regulating CO2 under 111(d):Options, Limits, and Impacts – Unit-level Efficiency Considerations for Coal-fired Power Plants, Duke University – Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, October 3, 2012, Washington, DC.

• Levy, E. K., Hazell, D., Goel, N., Jonas, G., and Bilirgen, H., Performance and Cost-Benefit Analyses of Condensing Heat Exchangers for Cooling Boiler Flue Gas, The 37th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems, Clearwater, Florida, June 3 – 7, 2012

• Bilirgen, H., Fossil-fired Power Plant Technologies, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, April 2012, Mugla, Turkey

• Murkerson, A., Hosseininejad, B., Fuller, E., Bilirgen, H., Krajna, J., and Fuller, T., Coal Flow Optimization with B&W PGG’s EvenFlow System, Power-Gen International Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 13-15, 2011

• Levy, E.K., Bilirgen, H., Kessen, M., Hazell, D., and Thompson, J., Heat Exchangers for Cooling Boiler Flue Gas to Temperatures below the Water Vapor Dewpoint, ASME Power Conference, ASMEPOWER 2011, Denver, Colorado, July 12-14, 2011.

• Bilirgen, H., Levy, E., K., and Hazell, D., Economics of Water Capture from Flue Gas using Condensing Heat Exchangers, Twenty-Eighth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, September 12 – 15, 2011

• Levy, E.K., Walsh, M.J., Bilirgen, H., Romero, C., Laurenzi, I., Effects of Heat Rate Upgrades on Performance of Coal-Fired Power Plants with Post Combustion CO2 Scrubbers, 35th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal and Fuel Systems, Clearwater, Florida, 6-10 June 2010

• Bilirgen, H., Heat Rate Improvement and Emission Reduction in PC-fired Power Plants via Combustion Optimization, 16^th International Energy and Environmental Fair and Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2010.

• Levy, E.K., Whitcombe, C., Laurenzi, I., and Bilirgen, H., Potential Water Vapor Recovery Rates and Heat Rate Reductions Resulting from Condensation of Water Vapor in Boiler Flue Gas, 34th International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems, Clearwater, Florida, May 31 to June 4, 2009.

• Bilirgen, H., Koroglu, C., Elshabasy, A., Levy, E.K., Effect of Operating Parameters in Pressurized Mills on Coal Flow Distribution between the Outlet Pipes, Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2008.

• Jeong, K., Kessen, M., Samuelson, C., Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E.K., A Study on Analytical Modeling for Condensation of Water Vapor in the Condensing Heat Exchanger, 2008 US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, San Diego, CA, August 14 – 17, 2008.

• Levy, E.K., Bilirgen, H., Samuelson, C., Jeong, K., and Kessen, M., Separation of Water and Acid Vapors from Boiler Flue Gas in a Condensing Heat Exchanger, 33rd International Technical Conference on Clean Coal & Fuel Systems, Clearwater, Florida, June 1 to June 5, 2008.

• Bilirgen, H., Coal Flow Balancing in PC Boilers and Its Effects on Unit Performance and Emissions, International Energy and Environment Fair and Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2008.

• Bilirgen, H., and Romero, Optimizing Boiler Operations for Emissions Control, Presented at Lehigh Valley Environmental Innovations Conference, September 20, 2007

• Romero, C., Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., and Levy, E.K., Field Experience with Mercury Emissions Control from Coal-Fired Power Plants by Boiler Optimization, Presented at 9th International Conference on Energy for a Clean Environment, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, July 2007.

• Levy, E. K. Sarunac, N., and Bilirgen, H., Operational and Environmental Benefits of Pre-Drying Low Rank Coals Using Power Plant Waste Heat, Western Fuels Symposium 20th International Conference on Lignite, Brown, and Sub-bituminous Coals, Denver, Colorado, October 24-26, 2006.

• Bilirgen, H., Levy, E.K., and Elshabasy, A., Coal Flow Balancing in PC Boilers and Its Effects on Unit Performance and Emissions, Western Fuels Symposium 20th International Conference on Lignite, Brown, and Sub-bituminous Coals, Denver, Colorado, October 24-26, 2006.

• Romero, C.E., Bilirgen, H., Levy, E.K., Mabin, A., McCoy, M., Serlin, R., Tylenda, C., Boiler Optimization for Multi-pollutant Control: Mercury and NOx Emissions, Power Plant Air Pollutant Control MEGA Symposium, August 28-31, Baltimore, MD, 2006.

• Levy, E.K., Bilirgen, H., Elshabasy, A., and Yilmaz, A., Control of Solids Flow Distribution at a Splitter Junction in a Two-phase Turbulent Flow, Proceedings Fifth World Congress on Particle Technology, Orlando, Florida, April 2006.

• Stenger, H., Romero, C.E., Caram, H., Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E.K., Analyses of Rate of Formation of SO3 in Coal-Fired Boilers, Proceedings of the 2006 Environmental Controls Conference, U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, 2006.

• Romero, E.R., Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., Levy, E.K., Impact of Modified Boiler Control Settings on Mercury Emissions, DOE/NETL’s Mercury Control Technology R&D Program Review, July 12-14, 2005.

• Bilirgen, H., Levy E. K., and Elshabasy, A., Coal Flow Balancing and Its Benefits on Unit Performance and Emissions, POWER-GEN International Conference, December 2005.

• Romero, E.R., Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., Levy, E.K., Mercury Emissions Control using Boiler Operations Modifications – With and Without Activated Carbon, 22^nd Annual Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2005

• Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E. K. Improved Combustion Control through Coal Flow Balancing, 22nd Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, September 2005.

• Sarunac, N., Romero, C., and Bilirgen, H., Combustion Optimization of an Ultra low-NOx Tangentially-fired Boiler, 22nd Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, September 2005.

• Bilirgen, H., Levy E. K., and Elshabasy, A., Field Installations of an On-line Coal Flow Control Technology, 15th ISA POWID Controls & Instrumentation Conference, Nashville, TN, June 5-10, 2005.

• Bilirgen, H. and Levy, E. K., Heat Rate Benefits of Coal Flow Balancing, EPRI Heat Rate Improvement Conference, Iowa, January 2005.

• Romero, E.R., Bilirgen, H., Li, Y., Sarunac, N., Levy, E.K., Impact of Boiler Operating Conditions on Mercury Emissions in Coal-fired Utility Boilers, the Twenty-First Annual Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Osaka, Japan, September 13- 17, 2004.

• Levy, E., Romero, C., Sarunac, N., and Bilirgen, H., Factors Affecting CEM Measurement Accuracy and Recommendations for Improvement, Proceedings of Combustion Canada 2003 Conference, Vancouver, Canada, September 21-24, 2003.

• Levy, E. and Bilirgen, H., Balancing of Coal Flow Distribution to Pulverized Coal Burners, Proceedings DOE/EPRI/EPA MEGA Symposium, Washington, DC, May 2003.

• Levy, E., Romero, C., Sarunac, N., and Bilirgen, H., Combined Optimization for NOx Emissions, Unit Heat Rate and Slagging Control with Coal-Fired Boilers, Proceedings 28th International Technical Conference on Coal Utilization and Fuel Systems, Clearwater, FL, March 10-13, 2003

• Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E. K., Field Application of On-Line Coal Flow Balancing Technology, 2003 Conference on Unburned Carbon on Utility Flyash, Pittsburgh, October 28, 2003

• Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., and Romero, C., Development of Improved Boiler Operating Conditions and Sootblow Strategy for Reduction of Slagging, 2003 Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2003.

• Sarunac, N., Romero, C., and Bilirgen, H., Sootblowing Optimization Helps Reduce Emissions from Coal-Fired Utility Boilers, Mega Conference, Washington D.C., June 2003.

• Romero, C., Sarunac, N., Levy, E. K., and Bilirgen, H., Techniques to Improve Measurement Accuracy in Power Plant Reported Emissions, Presented at ISA-The Instrument, Systems, and Automation Society Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 2002

• Levy, E.K, Yilmaz, A., Bilirgen, H., Wang, J., and Shi, X., Balancing of Coal Flow To Burners in Pulverized Coal Boilers, Presented at 26th International Technical Conference on Coal Utilization & Fuel Systems, Clearwater, Florida, March 5-8, 2001.

• Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E. K., Mixing and Dispersion of Particle Ropes in Lean Phase Pneumatic Conveying, Presented at the 2000 AIChE Meeting, Los Angeles, California, November 2000.

• Levy, E. K., Yilmaz, A., Akilli, H., and Bilirgen, H., Particle Roping in Coal Pipes in Pulverized Coal Boilers, Proceedings EPRI-DOE-EPA combined utility air pollutant control symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1999.

• Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E. K., Design of Flow Mixing Devices for Pneumatic Conveying Systems, Presented at the 1999 ASME PVP Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1-5, 1999.

• Yilmaz, A., Levy, E. K., Bilirgen, H., Effect of an Elbow on Flow Characteristics in Lean Phase Pneumatic Conveying, presented at the AIChE s 1996 annual meeting, Chicago, IL, November, 1996.

PUBLICATIONS – (Research Reports – Partial List)

• Bilirgen, H., Retrofit Assisted Combustion Optimization at SOMA B Coal-fired Power Plant , Report No. 2017-10-003, September 15, 2017.

• Bilirgen, H., Low Quality Lignite Enhancement via Utilizing Waste Heat, Report No. 2016-11-008, November 01, 2016.

• Bilirgen, H., Techno-Economic Analysis of FGD Reheat Elimination and Modification of Chimney for Wet Stack Operations at Kemerkoy-Yenikoy Power Plants, Report No. 2016-07-018, July 25, 2016.

• Bilirgen, H., Performing Field Measurements at Soma B Power Plant for Efficiency and Emissions Improvements, Report No. 2016-06-15-008, June 2016.

• Bilirgen, H., Development of an Iso-kinetic Particle Mass Flow Measurement System, Report No. 2016-01-01-004, January 2016.

• Bilirgen, H., Design of a Bubbling Fluidized Bed Coal Dryer for Coal-fired Power Plants, Report No. 2015-02-01-112, February 2015.

• Bilirgen, H., Combustion and Sootblowing Optimization of a High Alkali Lignite-firing Power Plant for Controlling Slagging and Fouling Problems, Report No. 2014-03-27-002, March 2014.

• Bilirgen, H., Assessments of Impact of Guide Vanes on Flow Distributions in the Fuel and Secondary Air Compartments – Phase I, December 16, 2013.

• Bilirgen, H., Combustion Optimization at a 600 MW Coal-fired Power Plant, Report No. 2013-09-03-012, September, 2013.

• Bilirgen, H., Sorbent Injection Grid Optimization via CFD simulations for OPPD Nebraska City Unit 1, July 2012

• Bilirgen, H., Design Improvements of Coal and Hot Air Duct Juncture for Reducing Pressure Drop at PPL’s Montour Station, May 2012.

• Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E. K., High Temperature Syngas Cooling with Heat Recovery for IGCC’s – Conceptual Design, November 2011.

• Bilirgen, H., Photo-Reactor for Growing Algae from Municipal Waste Water for CO2 Capture, Quarterly Report, July 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011, DOE Award Number DE-EE0001967, October 17, 2011

• Bilirgen, H., Rotary Hearth Furnace Design Modifications via CFD Modeling, August, 2011.

• Levy, E.K., Bilirgen, H., and DuPont, J., Recovery of Water from Boiler Flue Gas using Condensing Heat Exchangers, DOE Award Number DE-NT0005648, June 2011.

• Bilirgen, H., and Magnotta, Options for Improving Erosion Resistance of Coal Flow Controllers Installed at PPL Montour Station, ERC Report No: 11-400-04-04, February 18, 2011.

• Bilirgen, H., Evenflow^TM Demonstration Project at Lakeland Electric – McIntosh 3, ERC Report No: 11-400-02-02, January 21, 2011.

• Bilirgen, H., CFD Simulations for Designing Hydrated Lime/Trona Particle Injection Systems at PPL’s Montour Station Units 1 and 2, ERC Report No.: 10-400-01-01-R1, April 7, 2010.

• Bilirgen, H., Coal Flow Balancing of One Pulverizer at PPL Montour Station Unit 2, ERC Report No: 10-400-07-07, March 29, 2010.

• Bilirgen, H., Feasibility of Using Algae for CO2 Capture from Fossil-fired Power Plants, ERC Report No.: 10-400-06-06, February 18, 2010

• Bilirgen, H., Pluggage Characterization Test Results for Honey Comb and Plate Catalysts, November 2009.

• Romero, C., and Bilirgen, H., Task 2 Results – Sorbent Screening for Mercury Capture, ERC Report No: 09-400-13-13, November 11, 2009.

• Bilirgen, H., and Sale, J., An Industry Survey of Biofuel Co-firing with Coal, ERC Letter Report No.: 09-400-12-12, August 18, 2009

• Romero, E.C., Yao, Z., and Bilirgen, H., Combustion Optimization of DTP’s Panshan Unit 4, ERC Report No: 09-400-10-10, June 2009.

• Bilirgen, H., CFD Simulations for Designing Hydrated Lime Particle Injection Systems at Progress Energy’s Mayo Station Unit 1, ERC Letter Report No.: 09-400-04-04-A, January 23, 2009

• Bilirgen, H., Evaluation of Burner Pipe Design Modifications via CFD Modeling at Cayuga Station Units 1 and 2, ERC Report No: 08-400-18-19, August 25, 2008.

• Romero, E.C., Yao, Z., and Bilirgen, H., Optimization of a 350 MW Oil-fired Boiler in Mexico for NOx and Particulate Matter Emissions Control, ERC Report No: 08-400-15-16, August 6, 2008.

• Bilirgen, H., Investigation of Coal Pipe Layout Issues in Horizontal Coal and Burner Pipes at Cayuga Station Unit 1, ERC Report No: 08-400-10-10, March 25, 2008.

• Bilirgen, H., Coal Flow Balancing at Conectiv Edge Moor Station Unit 3, ERC Report No: 08-400-06-06, March 3, 2008.

• Bilirgen, H., Designing Particle Injection System at Ghent Station Unit 3 and 4 Using CFD Simulations, ERC Report No: 08-400-07-07, February 12, 2008.

• Romero, C., Zheng, Y., and Bilirgen, H., “Energy Assessment of the Textile Industry in Guanajuato – Sample for: Sweaters Magda, Carpe Diem Loews, Tejidos Gaitan Centro de Ingenieria y Desarrollo Industrial”, ERC Report No.: 07-400-18-21, September 2007.

• Bilirgen, H., and Sale, J., “Coal Flow Balancing at AES Beaver Valley Unit 4 Using the ERC CoalCONTROL Technology”, ERC Report No: 07-400-14-17, August 1, 2007.

• Bilirgen, H., Koroglu, C., and Levy, E., “Design Modifications for Minimizing the Erosion in the Product Ash Transporter Vent Piping System”, ERC Report No.: 07-400-15-18, July 9, 2007.

• Bilirgen, H., “Coal Flow Balancing and Biasing in Four-Way Rifflers Using Lehigh Coal Control Technology at Mercer Station Unit 2”, ERC Report No: 07-400-12-15, June 21, 2007.

• Bilirgen, H., “Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations for Designing a Trona Injection Grid at AES Somerset Station”, ERC Report No: 07-400-07-09, April 23, 2007.

• Bilirgen, H., Koroglu, C., and Levy, E., “A Study to Optimize Coal Flow Control Element Geometry in Pressurized Vertical Spindle Mills with Four Outlet Pipes”, ERC Letter Report No: 07-400-06-08, April 5, 2007.

• Romero, C., Sarunac, N., Moreno, R., Bilirgen, H., and Zheng, Y., “Combustion Optimization of Pdte. Adolfo Lopez Mateos Unit 1 Centro de Ingenieria y Desarrollo Industrial”, ERC Report No: 07-400-08-10, April 1, 2007.

• Bilirgen, H., “Ontario Power Generation Nanticoke Combustion Review”, ERC Letter Report No.: 06-400-25-26, December 19, 2006.

• Romero, C., Bilirgen, H., Zheng, Y., and Zhang, W., “Modification of Boiler Operations for Mercury Emissions Control with Sub-bituminous Coals – Colstrip Steam Electric Station – Unit 3 Testing”, ERC Report No.: 06-400-26-28, December 29, 2006.

• Bilirgen, H., “Identifying Key Optimization Parameters and Their Effects on Unit Performance and Emissions at Edge Moor Station Unit 4”, ERC Report No.: 06-400-22-23, October 18, 2006.

• Bilirgen, H., and Zheng, Y., “CO Emission Control Through Combustion Tuning at Bridgeport Harbor Station Unit 3”, ERC Report No.: 06-600-24-25, November 15, 2006.

• Bilirgen, H., Elshabasy, A., and Levy, E. K., “Combustion Improvements in Coal Fired Boilers through Burner Balancing, ERC Report No.: PIT-513-05, April, 2006.

• Levy, E.K., Sarunac, N., Bilirgen, H., and Caram, H., Use of Coal Drying to Reduce Water Consumed in Pulverized Coal Power Plants, , DOE Award Number DE-FC26-03NT41729, Final Report, March, 2006

• Bilirgen, H., and Romero, C., Combustion Optimization of St. Clair Unit 4, ERC Report No: 06-400-02-02, January 2006.

• Bilirgen, H., and Zheng, Y., Flow Measurements at the ESP Inlet at Bridgeport Harbor Station Unit 3, ERC Report No: 06-400-05-05, January 20, 2006.

• Bilirgen, H., Steam Temperature and Furnace Exit Gas Temperature Control at St. Clair Unit 3 through Boiler Modifications, ERC Report No: 06-400-04-04, January 18, 2006.

• Romero, C., Bilirgen, H., and Agarwal, H., An Investigation of Boiler Operation Modifications for Mercury Emissions Control at DTE Energy’s St. Clair Station Unit 4, ERC Report No: 05-400-08-10, October 2005.

• Bilirgen, H., Balancing of Pulverized Coal Flows to Burners in Boilers with Pressurized Vertical Spindle Mills, Final Report, DOE Award Number DE-FC26-03NT41867, June 2005.

• Bilirgen, H., Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations to Improve the Flue Gas Flow Distribution Between Flue Gas Ducts at Hudson Station Unit 2, ERC Report, April 2005.

• Levy, E.K., Bilirgen, H., Levy, U., Sale, J., and Sarunac, N., Use of Coal Drying to Reduce Water Consumed in Pulverized Coal Power Plants, DOE Award Number DE-FC26-03NT4172, 9 April 2005.

• Romero, C., Bilirgen, H., and Sarunac, N., Agarwal, H, and Eswaran, S., Mercury Emissions Control at Brayton Point Station – Activated Carbon Injection, ERC Report No: 05-400-02-03, February 2005.

• Bilirgen, H., and Romero, C., Coal Flow Balancing And Its Benefits At Logan Station, ERC Report No: 04-400-12-15, August 2004.

• Romero, C., Bilirgen, H., and Sarunac, N., Using Boiler Operating Conditions for Mercury Emissions Control, ERC Report No: 04-400-11-14, August 2004.

• Romero, C., and Bilirgen, H., Using Air Flow Measurements for Improvements in Combustion and NO_x Control, ERC Report No: 04-400-07-09, May 2004.

• Bilirgen, H., Slagging Control through Sootblowing Optimization at St. Clair Unit 7, ERC Report No: 04-400-06-08, May 2004.Bilirgen, H., and Elshabashy, A., Opacity Predictions on the 74th Street Stack Flows by Computational Fluid Dynamics, ERC Report No: 03-400-16-21, August 2003.

• Caram, H. S., Turkmen, N., Bilirgen, H., and Viecco, G. A., Alleviation of Welding Fume Generation by Metal Temperature Control During Arc Welding of AL-6XN Stainless Steel, ATLSS Report No. 03-12, June 2003.

• Bilirgen, H. and Li, X., CFD Analysis of Temperature Distribution in the Cooling Chamber of the Shunt-flo Meter, ERC Report No: 02-400-21-27, December 2002.

• Romero, C. and Bilirgen, H., Development of a Gas-Phase Mercury Oxidation Kinetic Model for Coal-Fired Power Plant Flue Gas, ERC Report No: 02-400-20-25, November 2002.

• Bilirgen, H., Sarunac, N., and Li, X., Feasibility of Using Operating Data from St. Clair 6 to Develop Neural Network Methods for the On-line Boiler OP Operating Advisor, ERC Report No: 02-400-18-23, November 2002.

• Bilirgen, H. and Romero, C., Development of Improved Boiler Operating Conditions and Sootblow strategy for Reduction of Slagging at Pleasants Unit 1”, ERC Report No: 02-400-16-19, September 2002.

• Bilirgen, H. and Romero, C., Evaluation of Fuel and Ash Properties Effect on Slagging Potential at Pleasants Station, ERC Report No: 02-400-01-02, March 2002.

• Romero, C., and Bilirgen, H., Estimation of the Environmental Impact of ARP System on Brayton Point Units 1 and 3, ERC Report No: 02-400-21-26, February 2002.

• Bilirgen, H., The Effect of Flow Fluctuations on Nozzle Flow Meter Accuracy, ERC Report No: 02-400-02-04, April 2002.

• Yilmaz, A., Bilirgen, H., Levy, E.K., Wang, J., and Shi, X., On-Line Coal Flow Control at a Four-way Distributor, ERC Report No: 00-500-06-23, September 2000.

• Sarunac, N., Eldredge, T., Levy, E. K., Bilirgen, H., Stack Flow Measurement Accuracy at Morgantown Unit – 2, ERC Report No: 98-400-15-19, Jul. 1998.

• Sarunac, N., Eldredge, T., Bilirgen, H.,”Flow Reference Method Testing and Analysis – Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling – Phase-I, ERC Report No: 98-400-22-30, Dec.1998.

• Romero, C., and Bilirgen, H., Baseline NO_x Emissions and Performance Parameters of Indian River Units 1 and 2, ERC Report No: 97-400-20-24, July 1997.

• Sarunac, N., Yilmaz, A.,

  Bilirgen, H., and Levy, E. K., Laboratory Test of the SMG-10, Rotorprobe, Dirty Air Probe and Modified ASME Method, ERC Report No: 96-400-27-38, Oct. 1996.e