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A Design Approach for Cooling Gas Turbine Intake Air with Solar-Assisted Absorption Cooling Cycle

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The Republic of Turkey’s current energy policy encourages households, industries, and energy production facilities to be energy wise. In this chapter, the Bursa Ovaakça power plant, which is one of the largest power plants of Turkey, was investigated with regard to boosting production. The scope of this chapter was to design a solar-assisted absorption cooling plant for cooling the intake air of gas turbines. The aim of this chapter is to achieve an efficiency augmentation in gas turbines through a solar energy-assisted absorption cooling system. The COP of the designed absorption cooling system has been calculated to be 0.75, and the utilization factor is 28.6.

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Acknowledgment

This chapter is the extended version of the earlier work of Unver et al. published in the 9th International Exergy, Energy and Environment Symposium (IEEES-9) Proceedings book with the title “The design of a renewable assisted absorption cooling system for gas turbine intake air cooling” [39].

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    Umit Unver, Gokçen Ozkara & Elif Merve Bahar

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Unver, U., Ozkara, G., Bahar, E.M. (2018). A Design Approach for Cooling Gas Turbine Intake Air with Solar-Assisted Absorption Cooling Cycle. In: Nižetić, S., Papadopoulos, A. (eds) The Role of Exergy in Energy and the Environment. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89845-2_10

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