All posts by Haluk Direskeneli

Thermal And Nuclear Power Plants Subjected To Deep Sea Discharge Regulations On Mediterranean Coast – OpEd

Haluk Direskeneli Recently your writer has received a question from an experienced power plant engineer from a different country. He said that he was interested to find some data about the seashore (Mediterranean) located power plants – based on public references. Specifically, he would like to know what would be the temperature rise in the […]

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Güneş Enerjisinin Geleceği

Dünyada yapılan son GES ihalelerinde büyük indirimler gözlüyoruz. Bunların çoğu PV değil, CST tasarımı yapılıyor. Neden bizler sadece PV esaslı GES kuruyoruz? Neden CST (Concentrated Solar Thermal) güneş santralleri kurmuyoruz? Dünyada kurulan GES santrallerinin %97’si PV esaslı. Şartlar neden bizi 1-MWe lisanssız GES santral kurulumu PV uygulamasına mahkum ediyor? Büyük kapasitelerde aynalarla bir noktaya odaklanan […]

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Eastern Mediterranean Offshore Waters are warming

Relative optimism on Eastern Mediterranean offshore gas explorations may soon face a nasty hard fact. First let’s see the latest offshore reserve figures. New figures are emerging every day about the East Med offshore natural gas reserves. Therefore we advise you to be cautious about the numbers we will give here. There are 320 bcm […]

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TURKEY: "60-day non-stop operation" rule for new fossil firing conventional thermal power plants

Haluk DİRESKENELİ   “I’m not rich enough to buy cheap things”, an old English saying. Conventional thermal power plants (CTPPs) are designed to operate for 30 years. However in practice, however, CTPPs are not usually in operation much more than 20 years. Moreover, those that operate beyond the 10-year mark without having undergone a major […]

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TURKEY: Energy & Infrastructure Forecast 2018

TURKEY: Energy & Infrastructure Forecast 2018, Risks and Opportunities Economies and businesses are always shaped by expectations, just as market expectations are important in economic forecasts themselves. Within our professional capacity, we have tried to outline a draft forecast for the upcoming days. While it may not necessarily foresee the future in all its detail, it […]

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TURKEY: Future of Solar Energy- OpEd

Total installed power in Turkey country is expected to be 82GWe by the end of 2017. We expected that the share of renewable energy plants in total production would increase over time, and that he share of imported and fossil fuels woud decrease, and the import and fossil fuel dependency would decrease. That, however, was […]

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Energy Digest for International Investors

The same process goes under way in the English text of the article. My native English speaker American Editor is more ruthless than my local Turkish Editor. “I’m not a technical person. I am an ordinary reader. You can not post an article I do not understand,” s/he says. The corrected/ edited last English version […]

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Cyber Wars in Modern Times

Haluk DİRESKENELİ   It was made public by NewYork Times in June 2012 article that, by joint work of the U.S. and Israeli computer scientists, a new secret and special computer virus named “Stuxnet v.0.5” was produced in 2007. In year 2009, with the permission of the President of the United States, the virus was […]

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İthal Kömüre Alternatif Biyokütle/ Yerli Linyit OrtakYakma Uygulamaları

  Haluk DİRESKENELİ Dolaşımlı Akışkan Yatak (CFB) veya Entegre gazlaştırma (IGCC) teknolojisine dayalı sistemler bilindiği gibi Kuzey Amerika’da, İngiltere’de, Kuzey Avrupa ülkelerinde çok yaygın bir uygulamadır. CFB teknolojisi ile belediye çöpleri geri dönüşüm ayıklamasından geçtikten sonra, yani çöp içindeki kağıt, metal, cam atıklar alınıp tekrar değerlendirmeye gönderildikten sonra, geri kalan biyokütle, yerli tasarımla yerli düşük […]

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Eskişehir Alpu Coal Fields and 1080 MWe New Thermal Power Plant Project

Haluk Direskeneli   According to the MTA 2011 report (by İlker Şengüler) and Eskişehir Anadolu University 2014 Academic Article (by Korhan Usta, Hatice Kutluk), there are two horizontal local lignite coal layers extending underground at depth from 250 to 450 meters in the Eskişehir-Alpu coal basin in the southwest-northeast direction with layer thicknesses range from […]

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