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Environmental Impact Assessment of Electricity Production, A Case Study of Turkey

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For at least the next few decades, fossil fuels will use for global energy demand and without a proper control atmospheric emissions. Therefore greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to increase and pose even more serious problems for environment and also human health. Beyond this point, the combustion products of fossil fuels are the main cause of environmental issues such as acid rains, ozone depletion and global warming.

This study focuses on the environmental impacts associated with the atmospheric emissions and other wastes that are produced from fossil fuels for generation electricity in Turkey from 1975 to 2011. The environmental evaluation of the different energy sources is investigated. The variations fossil fuels emission (CO2, CH4, and NOx) values determines and illustrated with graphics. In 2011, the electricity production from coal is 642.15 TJ, and corresponding CO2 emission is 58032.23 t/year. And 711.62 TJ for natural gas and corresponding CO2 emission is 498.13 kg/years.

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  1. Department of Energy, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Aksaray University, Aksaray, 68100, Turkey

    Fatih Yılmaz

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aksaray University, Aksaray, 68100, Turkey

    M. Tolga Balta & Doğan Demiral

  3. Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, 32100, Turkey

    Reşat Selbaş

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GHG:

Greenhouse gas

MW:

Megawatt

TJ:

Terajoule

t:

Ton

kg:

Kilogram

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Yılmaz, F., Balta, M.T., Selbaş, R., Demiral, D. (2016). Environmental Impact Assessment of Electricity Production, A Case Study of Turkey. In: Grammelis, P. (eds) Energy, Transportation and Global Warming. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30127-3_35

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