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Hagia Sophia Mosque, the bazaar and
Topkapi Palace are places that would
feature on a list of must-see sights for
tourists visiting Istanbul. Turk Telekom, Galata Bridge, IDO Ferries, Divan
Hotel and Emsey Hospital, on the other
hand are places you might pick out if
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showed the locations of all the MTU
and MTU Onsite Energy products in
use in this 2,500-year-old metropolis.
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An animated mixture
of ancient and modern –
that is the flavor of the
city of Istanbul.
Nurettin Kayabaşı, Marine Engineer Superintendent at IDO, and IDO Chief Engineer, Turgut Turan (right), look over an MTU Series 8000 engine in a car ferry.
The biggest ship, the car ferry Orhan
Gazi, has four MTU Series 8000 propulsion units each capable of 9,100 kilowatts in the engine room.
The Turkish economy is growing. The country is
already among the leaders in many industries.
By 2023, the 100th anniversary of the founding
of the Republic, Prime Minister Erdoğan aims to
have established Turkey as one of the top ten
national economies in the world. The key to that
ambition is energy – because growth demands
power. But due to the rapid rate at which demand is rising, the power grid in Turkey is not always stable. MTU Onsite Energy is a sought-after
partner for gas-engine continuous-duty generators and diesel-driven emergency backup generators in the Turkish private sector. “To date we
have installed 105 megawatts of system capacity supplied by MTU Onsite Energy, and we added 55 units in the last year alone,” reports Ali
­Güzel, Director of Sales and Marketing at MTU
Turkey. The company is valued by end clients as
a system supplier of tailor-made emergency and
continous power supply solutions, offered by the
Series 2000 and 4000 gas engines. According to
the Turkish Electricity Transmission Company, the
electricity demand in Turkey will rise by six percent a year between 2009 and 2023. The aim is
an installed capacity of 125,000 megawatts. By
comparison, the figure was 54,423 MW in 2010.
carried roughly 52 million passengers and
7.5 million vehicles across the Bosporus on five
different routes with crossing times of between
one and two hours. The company does exactly
what it says on the name plate – IDO stands for
Istanbul Deniz Otobüsleri, which means “Istanbul
Sea Ferries”. Its ships are named after important
personalities from the turkish history.
In Istanbul especially, the energy need is acute.
This is where most of the foreign companies have
established their bases. One fifth of the Turkish
population lives here. And anyone who has experienced this city understands its attraction –
lively and animated, a noisy ­mixture of oriental
flair and western lifestyle, Istanbul has visitors instantly under its spell. No other city in the world
spans the junction of two continents – Europe
and Asia. Just looking down on the city from an
airplane, the dominant role of the Marmara Sea
is clearly evident. That maritime influence is even
more immediately apparent to anyone arriving
from another town across the Bosporus on one
of the 20 ships in the fleet of ferry operator IDO.
IDO is the only ferry company that offers a highspeed ferry service from Istanbul over the straits
between Europe and Asia Minor. In 2011, IDO
Biggest engines for largest ferry
The largest of them, the ferryboat Orhan Gazi
built in 2007, sails twice a day in winter and up
to four times daily in summer across to the town
of Bursa. Built by Austal, its capacity is enormous. Within its overall length of 88 meters, it
can accommodate up to 1,500 passengers and
300 cars. So it is no surprise that below decks
in the engine room there are four of the biggest
engines made by MTU – 20-cylinder Series 8000
units that deliver as much as 9,100 kilowatts of
power each and propel the craft at speeds up to
35 knots. “The engines run very economically at
that speed. That is especially important to us,”
expounds Nurettin Kayabaşı, Marine Engineer
Superintendent at IDO. The ship also has two
Series 60 gensets each generating 600 kilowatts for the onboard power supply. The level
of Kayabaşı’s satisfaction with power units from
Friedrichshafen is shown by the fact that IDO has
a total of 62 MTU engines in use. Almost all of
their ferries are equipped with MTU propulsion
and gendrive engines. The second biggest car
ferry is powered by MTU ­Series 1163 engines,
while Series 183 and 396 units can be found in
the engine rooms of the smaller ferries. “The
engines always deliver what our captains ask of
them,” Kayabaşı enthuses.
Not only ferry passengers, but anyone traveling
into the city center by car or underground will
also encounter the MTU name. The famous city
landmark, the Galata floating bridge, has a Series
183 engine to drive its emergency power generator. And in the underground station in the bustling and trendy district of Taksim another MTU
engine makes sure the lights never go out.
Gensets assure luxury lifestyle
But the public transport systems aren’t the
only places where you will come across MTU engines and MTU Onsite Energy plants on a tour
of the city. If you are lucky enough to be staying
at the five-star Divan Hotel close to the ­Taksim
­transport interchange and Istanbul’s most famous
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Seven months ago, the hotel was reopened
­after being completely renovated. Since then,
the gensets have already been in use for nearly 70 hours, sometimes for only a few seconds,
on other occasions up to three and a half hours
long. “We have had no problems whatsoever with
these units. I would always be in favor of using
them again for a project of this type,” Dalay affirms. Inside this spacious and extensive luxury
hotel, it is obvious to the observer that the gensets have plenty to do if the power goes down.
There are more than 200 rooms and 33,000
square meters of hotel floor space including
health spa, restaurant suite and expansive lobby to be supplied with energy. To be on the safe
side, the gensets are dimensioned for more output than the hotel requires at present. Having
two of them also makes maintenance easier.
While one is shut down, the other remains on
standby and can supply a large proportion of the
electricity demand. And so that hotel guests can
enjoy a Turkish coffee in the lobby – here the
national drink is served stylishly on a silver saucer with a small Turkish biscuit – or hold their
conferences without the intrusion of noise,
the gensets are housed in a purpose-designed
soundproof container.
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1Reşat Dalay, Director of Engineering at the Divan Istanbul Hotel.
2 Turkish coffee is very elegantly served at this five-star hotel.
3 The Istanbul Divan Hotel covers 33,000 square meters of floor
space. Two Series 4000 diesel gensets provide the emergency
power backup.
Backup for online services
If you need a functioning phone, TV and internet
network on your city break or for your business
conference, another MTU Onsite Energy client,
Türk Telekom, is responsible for providing it. Those
wishing to visit the emergency backup gensets
at the Istanbul head offices on their tour of the
MTU sights need to be prepared for a trip five meters below ground rather than a walk around the
grounds as at the Divan Hotel. These gensets are
housed in a specially excav ated subterranean generator room. In July 2011, the previous generators
were replaced by three 16V 4000 modules. Installation had been preceded by a demand analysis of
the Turkish communications network. “With these
more powerful units we have equipped ourselves
for future energy requirements,” explains Ali Aydın,
Chief Energy Manager at Türk Telekom. As a complete systems provider, MTU Turkey fully fitted out
the 144-square-meter room with everything from
the gensets to the control cabinets and electrical
installations. Aydin has complete trust in the MTU
Onsite Energy emergency backup units: “To date
they have been in operation for 22 hours without
any problems whatsoever.” One of the things he
especially likes is that he gets a text message as
soon as a power failure happens and the gensets
spring into action. In the hard-fought private telecommunications sector, the uninterrupted service
offered by Türk Telekom is especially important. “I
can quite definitely recommend these gensets and
the speedy and thorough handling of the project.
We have also ordered MTU Onsite Energy diesel
gensets for our site in E­ rzurum, this time with
Series 2000 engines,” the manager adds.
The generator units run synchronously so one can
act as backup for the other. If a power cut occurs
just when you are standing in the generator room,
you can experience what they do at first hand.
Having suddenly been plunged into darkness due
to the power failure, the generators are up and
running – and the lights back on again – inside
nine seconds. This Türk Telekom site requires
around 800 kilovolt-amperes of electricity an hour.
It handles 33 percent of the internet traffic volume in Turkey. It is Türk Telekom’s third largest
facility in the country. In total, Türk Telekom has
roughly 5,000 individual sites which the company
is gradually adapting to the ever more widely used
telecommunications infrastructure by installing
more powerful backup generators. After all, not
only private individuals are using the phone network, GSM services, web TV and internet much
more frequently. Banks, the police, the education
ministry and other security services are also connected up. Unthinkable what loss of system data
would mean to such Turk Telekom customers.
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1 The Türk Telekom center in Istanbul is the
telecommunications provider’s third largest
facility in the country. It handles roughly
33 percent of the internet traffic volume in
Turkey.
2 Ali Aydın, Energy Manager at Türk Telekom
(left), was delighted with the handling of the
project and the installation of the Series 4000
emergency backup gensets. Furkan Yazıcı from
the MTU Application Engineering Department
advised Türk Telekom on the project-specific
design details.
Advantages of MTU Onsite
­Energy emergency backup
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shopping and entertainment street, you can be
equally assured that you will be able to enjoy the
numerous facilities of this stylish accommodation
without the disruption and inconvenience of
power outages, thanks to the two 16V 4000 gensets sited on the hotel grounds that provide
2,145 kilovolt-amperes of electrical energy. “This
is the first time we have worked with MTU Turkey and I amdelighted that we have choosen this
brand” relates Reşat Dalay, Director of Engineering at the Divan Istanbul Hotel. “For us, uninterrupted hotel service is indispensable. We can
always rely on the generators doing their job if
there are power cuts on the mains grid.”
> Maximum reliability, rapid
response to load changes, low fuel
consumption and minimal emissions
> Factory-configured and tested
> Support from a well-established
worldwide service network with over
300 distribution agents, customer
service centers and technical sales
staff
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3 Serdar Toprak of the
Sales Department at MTU
­Turkey dimensioned the
gensets in consultation
with Erdal Aydın (right),
the hospital’s technical
manager, to be able to
provide backup power for
all of the technical refinements such as the latest
operation room equipment.
4 The illuminated colored
buttons in the control
room show where the
power is coming from at
any moment – the city’s
power grid or the emergency backup gensets.
The hospital comprises roughly 200 well-appointed rooms spread over four storeys and divided
into five categories from single room to king
suite decorated in bright yellow and opulently
furnished with plaster moldings. It has nine operating rooms on a dedicated floor and 55 examination rooms for specializations of all types including dentistry. Roughly 70 doctors will work here.
Emsey Hospital is also assertive on having international patients from other countries; based on
their capabilities and close location to Sabiha
Gokçen International Airport. As well as the emergency backup gensets, the hospital also has one
Series 4000 gas engines supplied by MTU Onsite
Energy that drive continuous duty generators. The
Emsey Hospital needs 30,000 kilowatts of electricity every day. If you want to see its silver-painted
generator units, you need to take a walk through
the grounds again, as at the Divan Hotel. There
they stand next to the diesel gensets inside their
own soundproofed building, so the patients are
blissfully unaware if the backup generators have
to be called upon to supply their full capacity and
ensure smooth o­ peration of the hospital despite
a power grid failure.
Istanbul’s cityscape is bright and colorful. And it demands more and more energy because not only the economy
is booming. One fifth of the Turkish population now lives in the city on the Bosporus.
Multiple energy supply backup
The electricity for the hospital is supplied via two
separate cables – an initial safeguard in case one
of the cables fails. As a second insurance policy,
the 1,100-kilowatt diesel gensets are permanently on standby and can be started up inside seven
seconds to ensure the supply of life-sustaining
electricity is maintained. Within twelve seconds,
all three of the diesel power-backup gensets are
running in parallel. If only two of them are required to supply the present demand, one of
them is automatically shut down again – a big
plus in terms of energy-efficiency. The first seven
seconds after a power outage are covered by a
UPS. The emergency backup gensets have been
in place since November last year and were comprehensively tested in January this year. “So far
they have already been in action for ten hours
following grid outages, and they have always
responded,” Aydin summarizes.
These are only some of the tracks left behind
by the engines and gensets supplied by MTU
and MTU Onsite Energy on the banks of the
­ osporus. More are added almost on a weekly
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basis. For example, IKEA Istanbul has emergency backup generators supplied by MTU Turkey, as
do Akbank’s gigantic office tower, the MercedesBenz bus factory and textile producer Özdoku Acıbadem Hospitals. So those seeking out
the MTU energy sights in Istanbul should always
make sure they have the most up-to-date guide.
Words: Anika Kannler
Pictures: Robert Hack
To find out more, contact:
Ali Güzel (Sales Director, MTU Turkey)
[email protected]
Tel. +90 212 867 2080
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1 The very latest equipment
is a feature of the Emsey
Hospital opened in
April 2012 in the Asian
part of Istanbul.
2 Mechanic Murat Çöpçü
(right) and electrician
Ömer Şahin of the Emsey
Hospital’s service team
next to one of the three
Series 2000 diesel gensets
that provide the emergency power supply for the
medical facility.
Constant energy supply a life-saver
A power failure at a hospital such as the recently
constructed Emsey Hospital opened in April 2012
could be life-threatening. The way to the hospital
leads across one of the bridges to the Asian side
of Istanbul. It has 31,000 square meters of floor
space, is ultra-modern, elegantly furnished, fitted
out with the latest equipment and, in particular,
the most advanced communication standards.
Physicians in Intensive Care Unites can view
entire medical histories any time on-screen at
the touch of a button. Furthermore, during operations, specialists are able to share information
regarding the surgery via a videoconferencing
link. In addition, all necessary materials such as
bandages or medications are issued exclusively
using a barcode system. Patients throughout the
hospital have access to an emergency button
system which can be used to call a doctor for
assistance not only from the wards but also from
corridors. The quantity of technical refinements
available in modern-day hospital care is astounding – and will undoubtedly make patients at the
Emsey Hospital feel they are in good hands. In
order to systematically monitor all of those functions, there are 6,700 automated checkpoints.
There are also 320 safety cameras in use, to
monitor patients patients in all unites. They have
to be in working order all the time, as does the
sophisticated alarm system. “In a hospital the is
no room for power failures. But in this region the
mains grid is not so reliable. So, because of its
highly sophisticated technology, we made the
decision to have an emergency backup system
with three Series 2000 diesel-driven generators
from MTU Onsite Energy,” recounts Technical
Manager, Erdal Aydın.
MTU Turkey and its market position
There has been an MTU service workshop for spare parts installation, maintenance and complete overhaul of MTU
engines in Turkey since 1985. In the past year, the staff there overhauled more than 200 engines, including some
custom-tailored units. The majority of them were marine and tank engines used by the Turkish Armed Forces. In
2002, the company moved to a new building providing office space, test benches and workshops in the Hadimköy
district of Istanbul. Cylinder liners for the MTU Series 4000 engines have been made here since 2009. Since its entry
into the Onsite Energy market one and a half years ago, MTU Turkey has become an important player in the market.
The brand is positioned as a system supplier of tailor-made solutions and has built up a solid base in the continuous
power segment for gas engines.
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