Adnan Menderes Havalimanı için su verimlilik stratejisinin geliştirilmesi

The thesis focused on water consumption footprinting and development of water efficiency plan for the Adnan Menderes Airport located in Izmir, Turkey. Airports are facilities having large water consumption, generally for non-potable purposes such as water cooling systems, fire control, cleaning and washing of vehicles, runways and aircrafts and also public uses (WC, food service). Research period covered 12 months and consumption data obtained from 116 water meters were analysed for water footprinting. Along a year, Adnan Menderes Airport served to about 12 million passengers and 81 thousand aircrafts. These passengers and aircrafts were served by various services by airport authorities. These services were linked by water consumption directly or indirectly. Total water consumption in the airport was analysed by categorising users under three groups: • Domestic terminal • International terminal • Out of terminals Annual water consumption was about 436000 m3/year in total. Results of the footprinting study showed that irrigation, fire control system, cooling towers and terminal WC uses accounted high use rated with 23 percent, 7 percent, 26 percent and 20 percent. While water used for WC changed between about 6-8.5 litter per pax, this value was between 1-1.5 litter per pax for food consumption. Therefore passanger based uses was fluctuated between 6.5-10 litter per pax in the airport. This value was below world average rates. Based on this analysis several methods were suggested to minimize water consumption. Among them "training and education of airport staff" was proposed as the most economical solution. Furthermore "improved water consumption monitoring" system could be suggested as applicable method considering economical and physical aspects and should gain priority. Then alternative measures could be chosen based on their economical and physical applicability.