Mechanical Engineering / Makina Mühendisliği

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    Citation - WoS: 12
    Citation - Scopus: 19
    Effect of Non-Condensable Gases on Geothermal Power Plant Performance. Case Study: Kızıldere Geothermal Power Plant-Turkey
    (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2008) Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; Yıldırım, Nurdan; Yıldırım, Nurdan; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; 03.10. Department of Mechanical Engineering; 03.06. Department of Energy Systems Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    Non-Condensable Gases (NCGs) are natural components of geothermal fluids, and they are a source of considerable capital and operating costs for power plants. The NCG content of geothermal steam varies over the world from almost zero to as much as 25% (wt). In this work, the influence of NCGs on the thermodynamic performance of geothermal power plants is analysed for various NCG content and turbine inlet temperatures. The results obtained can be useful on the feasibility study of single flash geothermal power plants. Depending on the NCG content of the field, the performance of the power plant can be determined roughly. © 2008, Inderscience Publishers.
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    Citation - WoS: 25
    Citation - Scopus: 32
    District Heating System Design for a University Campus
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2006) Yıldırım, Nurdan; Toksoy, Macit; Toksoy, Macit; Yıldırım, Nurdan; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; 03.10. Department of Mechanical Engineering; 03.06. Department of Energy Systems Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
    İzmir Institute of Technology campus is in use since 2000 and still under development. At present, heating is provided by individual fuel boilers. On the other hand, the campus has a geothermal resource in its borders with a temperature of 33 °C. Because of this low geothermal fluid temperature; heat pump district heating system is considered for the campus. As an alternative, fuel boiler district heating system is studied. Each heating system is simulated using hourly outdoor temperature data. For the simulations, a control system with constant flow rate and variable return water temperature is used and the main control parameter is the indoor temperature. Various heating regime alternatives have been studied for heat pump district heating system for the various condenser outlet temperature and geothermal fluid flow rate, and two of these alternatives are given in this study. Furthermore, economic analysis has also been done for each heating system alternative based on investment and operational costs. Results indicate that heat pump district heating system has the highest investment but lowest operational cost. The alternatives are evaluated according to internal rate of return method, which shows the profit of the investment and resulted that, the heat pump district heating system has minimum 3.02% profit comparing with the fuel boiler district heating system at the end of the 20-year period.