Thermodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Geothermal Power Plants

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 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 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.

• Part I Basics of geothermal power plants1. Various cycle configurations for geothermal power plantsDiego Moya, Olusola Charles Akinsipe, and Prasad Kaparaju2. Global value chain and manufacturing analysis on geothermal power plant turbinesSertaҫ Akar, Chad Augustine, and Parthiv Kurup3. CO2 emissions from geothermal power plants and state-of-the-art technical solutions for CO2 reinjectionJoseph Bonafin and Arianna Bonzanini4. Life cycle assessment of geothermal power plants Lorenzo Tosti, Maria Laura Parisi, and Riccardo Basosi5. Social acceptance of geothermal power plantsSpyridon Karytsas and Olympia Polyzou Part II Thermodynamic analysis of geothermal power plants6. Single- and double-flash cycles for geothermal power plantsSaeid Mohammadzadeh Bina, Hikari Fujii, and Shunsuke Tsuya7. Dry steam power plant: Thermodynamic analysis and system improvementMuhammad Aziz and Firman Bagja Juangsa8. Binary geothermal power plant Yusuf Basogul, Onur Vahip Güler, and Ali Keçebas9. Solar-geothermal power plantsKosmas A. Kavadias, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, and George Charis10. Thermodynamic analysis of a transcritical CO2 geothermal power plant Anil Erdogan, Onder Kizilkan, Mehmet Akif Ezan, and C. Ozgur Colpan11. Double-flash enhanced Kalinabased binary geothermal power plantsHadi Rostamzadeh, Milad Feili, and Hadi Ghaebi12. Combined cooling and power production from geothermal resources Tahir Abdul Hussain Ratlamwala, Uzair Aziz Suria, Rao Hamza Jamil, Mohammad Mustafa Pardesi, and Mohammad Ashar Jamal13. Hydrogen production from geothermal power plantsMurat Ozturk and Ibrahim Dincer14. Multiple flashing in geothermal power plantsRon R. Roberts, Ibrahim Dincer, and Greg F. Naterer Part III Optimization of geothermal power plants15. Multiobjective particle swarm optimization of geothermal power plantsKhurram Kamal, Tahir Abdul Hussain Ratlamwala, Muhammad Afzal Sheikh, Sharjeel Ashraf Ansari, and Muhammad Nouman Saleem16. Artificial neural network-based optimization of geothermal power plants Gürcan Çetin, Osman Özkaraca, and Ali Keçebas17. Multiobjective optimization of a geothermal power plantShoaib Khanmohammadi, Onder Kizilkan, and Farayi Musharavati18. Optimization of geothermal power plants with MATLAB Washima Tasnin and Lalit Chandra Saikia19. Exergoeconomic optimization of a binary geothermal power plantMuhammad Imran, Hafiz Ali Muhammad, Farooq Sher, Muhammad Farooq, Young-Jin Baik, and Zabdur Rehman