ERGIL completes Silencers & Weir Boxes order for Zorlu Energy Group’s Kızıldere III – Geothermal Power Generation Project
ERGIL has completed the installation of 13 brine flash tank silencers and 13 weir boxes for Zorlu Energy Group’s Kızıldere III Geothermal Power Generation Project.
Located between Denizli and Aydın Provinces in the northeastern extreme of the Büyük Menderes Graben of Western Turkey, Kızıldere is Turkey’s largest geothermal power plant that adds significant value to Turkey’s alternative energy needs.
The Kızıldere III project has increased its production to 165 MW and has become one of the 10 largest geothermal power generations in the world. The plant now produces the electricity needs of around 800,000 homes.
The Zorlu Energy Group offers an integrated service on a global scale in various fields, specifically through the production and sales of electricity and vapour. This project enabled Turkey to reduce its dependency on foreign-source energy by using national resources more efficiently.
The Silencers and Weir Boxes were designed and manufactured at ERGIL’s facility in Mersin, Turkey. Brine flash tank silencers are used to minimise extremely loud noise that is created during the process of flashing geothermal brine at atmospheric pressure and separates vapour and brine (thermal water). Weir boxes are used when tanks are filled with geothermal water and the silencer quietens the process as the steam and steam fluids which come out of the double sludge system are removed and the geothermal water is then transferred to the liquid weir boxes, where level and flow measurements are carried out.
ERGIL CEO, Rahmi Oktay Altunergil said: “We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Zorlu Energy Group as suppliers for one of the biggest Alternative Energy Projects in the world – Kızıldere III Geothermal Power Plants Project (Buharkent). In ERGIL, we know the importance of alternative energy for the world and particularly for Turkey, which has become one of the fastest-growing energy markets in the world, paralleling its economic growth over the last ten years. We have been focusing on alternative energy field for the last couple of years more and more. ERGIL had been traditionally active with more conventional energy technologies; such as oil & gas, however, because of the rapidly increasing world population, cheap and clean energy has become more important for environmental and economic reasons. We at ERGIL are proud to be part of that trend and contribute alternative energy technologies for the current and future generations.”
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31st Jan 2017
