Thermodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Geothermal Power Plants

Table of Contents

Part I Basics of geothermal power plants 1. Various cycle configurations for geothermal power plants Diego Moya, Olusola Charles Akinsipe, and Prasad Kaparaju 2. Global value chain and manufacturing analysis on geothermal power plant turbines Serta? Akar, Chad Augustine, and Parthiv Kurup 3. CO2 emissions from geothermal power plants and state-of-the-art technical solutions for CO2 reinjection Joseph Bonafin and Arianna Bonzanini 4. Life cycle assessment of geothermal power plants Lorenzo Tosti, Maria Laura Parisi, and Riccardo Basosi 5. Social acceptance of geothermal power plants Spyridon Karytsas and Olympia Polyzou

Part II Thermodynamic analysis of geothermal power plants 6. Single- and double-flash cycles for geothermal power plants Saeid Mohammadzadeh Bina, Hikari Fujii, and Shunsuke Tsuya 7. Dry steam power plant: Thermodynamic analysis and system improvement Muhammad Aziz and Firman Bagja Juangsa 8. Binary geothermal power plant Yusuf Basogul, Onur Vahip G�ler, and Ali Ke�ebas 9. Solar-geothermal power plants Kosmas A. Kavadias, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, and George Charis 10. Thermodynamic analysis of a transcritical CO2 geothermal power plant Anil Erdogan, Onder Kizilkan, Mehmet Akif Ezan, and C. Ozgur Colpan 11. Double-flash enhanced Kalinabased binary geothermal power plants Hadi Rostamzadeh, Milad Feili, and Hadi Ghaebi 12. Combined cooling and power production from geothermal resources Tahir Abdul Hussain Ratlamwala, Uzair Aziz Suria, Rao Hamza Jamil, Mohammad Mustafa Pardesi, and Mohammad Ashar Jamal 13. Hydrogen production from geothermal power plants Murat Ozturk and Ibrahim Dincer 14. Multiple flashing in geothermal power plants Ron R. Roberts, Ibrahim Dincer, and Greg F. Naterer

Part III Optimization of geothermal power plants 15. Multiobjective particle swarm optimization of geothermal power plants Khurram Kamal, Tahir Abdul Hussain Ratlamwala, Muhammad Afzal Sheikh, Sharjeel Ashraf Ansari, and Muhammad Nouman Saleem 16. Artificial neural network-based optimization of geothermal power plants G�rcan �etin, Osman �zkaraca, and Ali Ke�ebas 17. Multiobjective optimization of a geothermal power plant Shoaib Khanmohammadi, Onder Kizilkan, and Farayi Musharavati 18. Optimization of geothermal power plants with MATLAB Washima Tasnin and Lalit Chandra Saikia 19. Exergoeconomic optimization of a binary geothermal power plant Muhammad Imran, Hafiz Ali Muhammad, Farooq Sher, Muhammad Farooq, Young-Jin Baik, and Zabdur Rehman

Authors

Can Ozgur Colpan Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. Can Ozgur Colpan is an full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. His research areas are organic Rankine cycles, heat exchanger design and modelling, thermodynamic modelling of integrated energy systems and renewable energy systems (including geothermal power plants), multiphysics modelling of fuel cells, and manufacturing and characterisation of fuel cells. Mehmet Akif Ezan Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. Mehmet Akif Ezan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. His main research interests cover thermal energy storage systems, natural-convection-driven melting/solidification processes, development, and characterization of phase change materials and photovoltaic/thermal system. Onder Kizilkan Professor, Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. Onder Kizilkan received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey in 2008. After a sixteen-year experience at Suleymen Demirel University including research assistantship, he was promoted as full Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Isparta University of Applied Sciences in 2019. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Energy Conversion Research Center at Doshisha University in Japan, focusing on solar assisted supercritical ORC technology. He has also worked as visiting associated professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada for one year in 2011. Dr. Kizilkan's research interests are energy and exergy analyses of thermal systems, solar energy, energy storage systems and refrigeration.