BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION AND POTENTIAL OF TURKEY

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2011

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Gazi Univ, Fac Engineering Architecture

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Energy Systems Engineering
(2009)
The Department of Energy Systems Engineering admitted its first students and started education in the academic year of 2009-2010 under Atılım University School of Engineering. In this Department, all kinds of energy are presented in modules (conventional energy, renewable energy, hydrogen energy, bio-energy, nuclear energy, energy planning and management) from their detection, production and procession; to their transfer and distribution. A need is to arise for a surge of energy systems engineers to ensure energy supply security and solve environmental issues as the most important problems of the fifty years to come. In addition, Energy Systems Engineering is becoming among the most important professions required in our country and worldwide, especially within the framework of the European Union harmonization process, and within the free market economy.

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The ever increasing demand in global energy consumption makes it inevitable for the development of new energy resources. Turkey imports nearly all of its petroleum and this causes major economical problems. In Turkey, a major cereal producer, production of energy crops will decrease the dependence of petroleum and greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, bioethanol production in Turkey becomes a major alternative to petroleum. According to the results find in this study, with the current agricultural output, none of the crops can be adequate for bioethanol production even 100% of crop harvests were utilized. However, with 4% and 7% of current wheat harvest bioethanol required for the production of E5 and E10 can be achieved. In addition, by utilizing the unused land available for agriculture and planting potato, sugar beet, and wheat (each 100%), 5.8, 8.7 and 13.7 billion litres of bioethanol can be produced and this production will be more than enough to supply Turkey's current demand for gasoline.

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alternative energy sources, wheat, bioethanol, carbon cycle, renewable energy

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13

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26

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1

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151

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160

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/8590

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