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
Sertaҫ 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 Güler, and Ali Keçebas
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
Gürcan Çetin, Osman Özkaraca, and Ali Keçebas
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

About the Author

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.