DOĞANCAN BEŞİKÇİ

Urban Scaled Reference Energy System Development with a Sectoral Focus

Abstract

Energy demand is in a diversified manner depending on the natural resources, socio-economic profile and the income level in cities. The demand level also influences the energy consumption, coupled with relevant environmental effects.

This study aims to analyze and determine the potential of the marble sector, which is a significant part of the energy model developed for Burdur, Turkey. Burdur, the selected city as the analysis domain, is located in the West Mediterranean region. Burdur province makes most of its revenue from this sector, because of the rich marble veins and specific marble types. Other than the marble, Burdur also makes income from livestock breeding, agriculture and dairy products. As a result, high capacity marble quarries also attract local and foreign companies to Burdur province, and stimulate the establishment of various marble processing plants.

Marble sector in Burdur is analyzed in energy system structure perspective as two main segments; quarrying and processing of the marble. The entire equipment and machinery inventory was determined from a middle sized marble quarry and processing plant. Reference Energy System is (RES) based on the year 2016, extending to 2031 by Answer-TIMES energy-economy-ecology model generator. Energy demand of the sector in the years 2021-2026-2031 were calculated and Burdur-TIMES model is designed and developed on urban scale, based on rich energy technology and sectoral data.

Biography

Doğancan Beşikci was born in İstanbul, Turkey in 1991 and graduated from Bozok University, BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 2014, Yozgat, Turkey. He is still MSc student in Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey.

He is working on thesis on Energy-Economy-Ecology modelling area.