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January 31, 2025 - GTU Office of Press and Public Relations
Assoc. Prof. Gamze Gediz-İliş, a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering under GTU's Faculty of Engineering is awarded for her project in the field of clean technology.
The Global Cleantech Innovation Program (GCIP), which supports eco-friendly and sustainable projects in Türkiye and helps entrepreneurs become competitive on the international arena, has announced its award winners. The GCIP 2024 Türkiye Accelerator Awards Ceremony, organized in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was held at TÜBİTAK Presidency in Feza Gürsey Hall with the participation of Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır and Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş.
At the award ceremony, Assoc. Prof. Gamze Gediz-İliş from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gebze Technical University, won 2nd place in the Türkiye competition with her project G&D (Green Development), a device that produces cooled water from waste heat in factories.
Assoc. Prof. Gamze Gediz-İliş's project 's details are as follows:G&D is an industrial device that converts waste heat from a facility into cold water and has been developed as a result of 19 years of academic research. The produced cold water can be used for process cooling or air conditioning, and the device operates without electricity consumption.
Innovative features of G&D can be listed as follows:• G&D features an innovative adsorber (bed) design, making it smaller and lighter compared to alternatives. • It uses water as the cooling fluid and contains silica gel in its adsorption beds, making it an entirely eco-friendly cooling system (each G&D unit saves the equivalent of 4,200 trees annually). • Existing adsorption coolers have limited application areas as they require waste heat at 85-90°C and high flow rates of 60-70 m³/h. However, G&D can efficiently operate with water at temperatures between 50-90°C and mass flow rates of just 3-5 m³/h. • Equipped with a unique AI system, G&D recognizes the cooling demand of the facility and adjusts cooling production accordingly, providing flexibility for different applications.
The YouTube video of G&D can be accessed via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOYKK3cDUFM
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