Evaluation of Geothermal District Heating Systems of Turkey
- Key words
- Geothermal District Heating, Integrated Use
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 2020
- Session
- District Heating
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 35016
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Abstract
Turkey is one of the few countries that has almost all possible applications of Geothermal Energy. Geothermal District Heating (GDHS) has a relatively short history (since 1987) compared to other direct utilization but plays important economic, social and environmental roles in some of the towns. There are 18 GDHS, mainly in the Aegean region with resource temperatures between 57 - 145 C. Current heating capacities of those systems are in the range of 570 to 37500 Residence Equivalent (RE, 1 RE= 100 m2 heated area). This paper evaluates each GDHS on their technical characteristics, then give the details of three GDHS and compares the economics of district heating applications based on alternative fuel prices.
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