Mühendislik Fakültesi / Faculty of Engineering

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    The Healthcare Industry and Medical Devices in Environmental Sustainability: Medical Device Industry is Going Green
    (2018) Colak, Meric Yavuz; Colak, Levent; Gurel, Elif; 0000-0002-0294-6874; 0000-0001-7611-3106; AAA-4360-2021
    In the whole world there are several developments in order to make a more sustainable and qualified environment to handle the increase costs of the healthcare services industry. The changes in health sector also affect the medical device sector directly as the medical device sector is the most important key of health sector and that is why the concepts element such as environment, sustainability and green are very important in medical sector. The main purpose of the research is to point out the applications of medical device firms concerning environment and sustainability. The research has been planned and carried out as a cross sectional field work in defined type. The medical device firms running in the city center of Ankara are involved in research population. The research is carried out on 60 medical device firms which accept the research within a months of time. Compared with other sectors, it has been concluded that producing sustainable products in medical sector will be more effective, energy applications will be reducing the treatment costs in healthcare, some medical firms in Turkey are ready for energy efficiency applications and energy efficiency applications will reduce 50% energy costs and will protect 50% the environment according to the medical firm's opinions.
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    Transition from Conventional to Sustainable Production: A Case Study in OSTIM Organized Industrial Zone
    (2018) Colak, Levent; Akcengiz, Pinar Yalman; 0000-0001-7611-3106
    Organized Industrial Zones (OIZ) are places for manufacturing of goods and provision of services, established and operated in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Science Industry and Technology of Turkey. The process input-outputs and their environmental impacts are ignored in conventional OIZ's. However, global conditions of competition have changed today and manufacturers need to consider the economic, ecologic and energy factors, reuse of products and raw materials, recovery of waste and the efficient use of all resources. They have to focus on cleaner production (CP) for being competitive in market. As a case study, 10 Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) which are producing in different areas like rubber, metal working, galvanized coating, and casting were chosen. In each company, flow charts were analyzed, inputs and outputs were identified. Raw materials, chemicals, water and energy were taken as inputs. Since there was no continuous production in each company, all parameters were considered annually. All data was benchmarked with Eco-Invent database to make suggestions for clean production to each company. After cleaner production analysis, it was tried to reveal possible symbiotic relations between companies. After all analysis, data showed that energy efficiency based industrial symbiosis (IS) is more possible and efficient than waste-raw material exchange. Based on this, by creating a virtual eco industrial park, possible scenarios for the realization of industrial symbiosis were prepared. Examining the best practices of eco-industrial parks in the world, an eco-industrial virtual park was designed for OSTIM OIZ for sustainable environmental friendly production.