Browsing by Author "Celik, AG"

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    Assessment of exergy-based performance and sustainability indicators of a sewage water source heat pump system
    Celik, AG; Hepbasli, A
    Exergy analysis helps identify the amount and the positions of exergy losses in any system along with its main components. To achieve sustainability, these irreversibilities should be diminished. This study aims at presenting the exergetic-based performance of a sewage water source heat pump system based on experimental data. Initially, the exergetic performance assessments are carried out and then the exergetic performance results are evaluated using exergy-based sustainability indicators. The SWSHP system had the values for exergetic efficiency 57.77%-63.81% and overall sustainability index 2.31-2.72, respectively. Eight other exergy-based indicators are applied to determine and compare the most impacted component among the others.
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    Avoidable thermodynamic inefficiencies evaluation of a sewage water source heat pump system
    Celik, AG; Hepbasli, A
    The performance of a sewage water source heat pump system is assessed through conventional/enhanced exergy-based methods in this present study. The experimental data used in the analyses are based the cooling mode. According to the conventional-based results, the condenser has the lowest exergy efficiency. Beside this, the enhanced exergy-based analysis results show the sewage water heat exchanger should be considered as the most significant component as it has the highest avoidable exergy destruction rate in the whole system and takes the improvement priority. Based on the enhanced exergy analysis, 56% of the total exergy destruction belongs to the avoidable part.
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    Energy, Exergy Analysis and Sustainability Assessment of a Thermal Power Plant Operating in Various Environmental Conditions Using Real Operational Data
    Celik, AG; Aydemir, U
    It is well known that fossil fuels, especially coal, are still intensively used when considering the distribution of the main energy demand for electricity generation. Efforts to increase and optimise the efficiency of energy production are accelerating as global demand for energy continues to rise. In meeting the world's energy needs, thermal power plants have an essential role to play. However, it remains an ongoing concern to improve their performance and sustainability. In this study, based on real operating data at varying ambient temperatures, an exergy analysis and an exergy-based sustainability assessment of a 210 MW coal-fired thermal power plant in Turkey are presented. The results of the energy analysis show that 59.01% of the total energy destruction belongs to the boiler and 12.29% to the intermediate-pressure turbine. This means that these are the main components for energy analysis. According to the obtained results of the exergy analysis, the boiler is the main constituent with the maximum exergy destruction, with a rate of 71.00% among the other constituents at the reference temperature of 25 degrees C. In addition, the relative irreversibility values were calculated as 79.43% in the boiler, 5.42% in the intermediate-pressure turbine (IPT), and 4.22% in the low-pressure turbine (LPT). These are the components that cause the most intensive irreversibility among the other plant components. Moreover, the component that had the greatest exergy efficiency was the ejector, at 98.62%, followed by the high-pressure heater (HPH-3) at 96.00%, the low-pressure heater (LPH-2) at 88.16%, and the high-pressure turbine (HPT) at 86.12%. The sustainability efficiency indicator (SEI) and the exergetic ecological index (ECEI) for the thermal power plant were 2.50 and 0.245, respectively, according to the exergy-based sustainability indices. The boiler, the turbine group, and the condenser are especially significant for increasing plant efficiency due to their high potential for improvement.