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    Heat Load Factor for Geothermal District Heating System Design
    (National Technical University of Athens, 2006) Yıldırım, Nurdan; Gökçen, Gülden
    Design of heating systems using conventional fuels is based on peak load which is calculated according to the coldest outdoor design temperature. But in geothermal district heating system design it is common practice to use a heat load factor between 0.6-0.7 since the resource is continues, cheap and system can be run for 24 hours a day. Heat load factor can be defined as a ratio of actual heat load to design heat load of the system. In this study, a geothermal district heating system is designed for Izmir Institute of Technology Campus, Izmir, Turkey and simulated for a heat load factor range of 0.5-1. For the Campus case, the heat load factor is determined as 0.53-0.0.67 based on indoor air temperature and operational cost.
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    Citation - WoS: 40
    Citation - Scopus: 44
    Geological and Hydrogeochemical Properties of Geothermal Systems in the Southeastern Region of Turkey
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2019) Baba, Alper; Şaroğlu, Fuat; Akkuş, I.; Özel, Nedret; Yeşilnacar, Mehmet İrfan; Nalbantçılar, Mahmut Tahir; Demir, Mustafa Muammer; Gökçen, Gülden; Arslan, Ş.; Dursun, N.; Uzelli, Taygun; Yazdani, Hamidreza
    The Anatolia region is one of the most seismically active regions in the world. It has a considerably high level of geothermal energy potential thanks to its geological and tectonic settings. The Southeastern Anatolia Region (GAP) is located in the south of Bitlis-Zagros Suture Zone (BZSZ) which is in the Arabian foreland. During the neotectonic period, the folded structures have been developed under the influence of tectonic compression from the Upper Miocene in the GAP Region where it is closely related to active tectonics. These tectonic activities produce more geothermal resources. Few studies have been carried out in this region for geothermal energy. Limited portions of the geothermal resources have been used both for thermal tourism and greenhouses in the GAP region. The aim of this study is to determine geological, tectonic and hydrogeochemical properties of a geothermal system in the GAP Region. The result indicates that the surface temperatures of geothermal fluids are from 20 to 84.5 °C A large number of abandoned oil wells, whose temperature reaches 140 °C, are found in the region. Also, hydrogeochemical results show that deep circulated geothermal fluids are enriched with Na-Cl and shallow geothermal system fluids have Na−HCO 3 and Ca-SO 4 characters because of cold water mixing and water-rock interaction. Cold waters are generally of Ca-Mg−HCO 3 and Ca−HCO 3 type. Cation geothermometers were used for determining reservoir temperature of the geothermal resources in the region. The results show that the reservoir temperature of these geothermal resources ranges from 50 °C to 200 °C. The isotope data (oxygen-18, deuterium and tritium) suggests that geothermal fluid is formed by local recharge and deep circulation.
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    Citation - Scopus: 3
    Performance Analysis of Single-Flash Geothermal Power Plants: Gas Removal Systems Point of View
    (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2012) Yıldırım Özcan, Nurdan; Gökçen, Gülden
    Non-condensable gases (NCGs), natural components of geothermal fluids, affect the performance of a geothermal power plant (GPP) significantly. Therefore, the NCGs should be removed from the process to optimise the thermodynamic efficiency of the plant. GPPs require large capacity NCG removal systems that occupy large portion in the total plant cost and auxiliary power consumption. The flashed-steam GPPs, which are commonly used in the World, are a relatively simple way to convert geothermal energy into electricity when the geothermal wells produce a mixture of steam and liquid. The primary aim of this study is to develop a code for simulating flashed-steam GPPs to examine the thermodynamic performance of NCG removal systems, which represent major concerns at planning and basic design stages of GPPs. A single-flash GPP model is developed and simulated to identify the effects of input variables, such as NCG fraction, separator pressure and condenser pressure. Among the variables, NCG fraction is the most significant parameter affecting thermodynamic performance of single-flash GPPs. The net power output and overall exergetic efficiency of single-flash GPP are decreased 0.4% for compressor system (CS), 2.2% for hybrid system (HS), 2.5% for reboiler system (RS), and 2.7% for steam jet ejector system (SJES) by 1% increase in NCG fraction.
  • Article
    Citation - Scopus: 10
    Exergy Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Kizildere Geothermal Power Plant, Turkey
    (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2004) Yıldırım, Eda Didem; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; Gökçen, Gülden
    Conventional geothermal power plants (GPP) differ from fossil-fuel power plants (FFPP) in many ways. The most specific ones are GPPs, are not cyclic plants and the working fluid is not pure steam. Geothermal steam contains non-condensable gases (NCG) which degrade power plant efficiency. This discrepancy leads to two considerations in energy and exergy analysis of GPPs. One is that the amount of NCGs in the steam cannot be omitted during the calculations; the other is that the dead state composition varies throughout the process. In this work, energy and exergy analysis is conducted to assess the performance of Kizildere GPP under both considerations. The net second law efficiencies of the plant based on reservoir and wellhead exergy are 24.3 and 27.2% respectively. Both indicate that the plant performance is low comparing with the other single-flash GPPs and FFPPs. The losses are mainly associated with high NCG content and low steam fraction of the fluid.
  • Article
    Citation - WoS: 66
    Citation - Scopus: 79
    Piping Network Design of Geothermal District Heating Systems: Case Study for a University Campus
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2010) Yıldırım, Nurdan; Toksoy, Macit; Gökçen, Gülden
    Geothermal district heating system design consists of two parts: heating system and piping network design. District heating system design and a case study for a university campus is given in Yildirim et al. [1] in detail. In this study, piping network design optimisation is evaluated based on heat centre location depending upon the cost and common design parameters of piping networks which are pipe materials, target pressure loss (TPL) per unit length of pipes and installation type. Then a case study for the same campus is presented. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.