Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) (ePub)

geothermal energy resources. His books on geothermal energy resources (i) Geothermal Energy Resources for Developing Countries (Balkema Pub., 2002), (ii) Low Enthalpy Geothermal Resources for Power Generation (Taylor and Francis, 2008), (iii) Geothermal Systems and Energy: Turkey and Greece (CRC Press, 2014) and (iv) Red Sea Geothermal Provinces (CRC Press, 2018) are widely read. Prof Chandra served on the Board of Director of (i) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, (ii) Western Coal Fields Ltd., (iii) Indian Rare Earths Ltd. and (iv) Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals. He has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Geothermal Energy Resources and Management committee constituted by the Department of Sciences and Technology, Government of India. Currently, he is with the International Water Resources Department, IYTE, Turkey.

Alper Baba (Turkey, 1970) holds a degree in geology and a doctorate in the field of hydrogeology from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir. He has 25 years' experience in hydrogeological and environmental geology problems in different parts of the world. Since 2010, he has been a professor at the Izmir Institute of Technology as the director of the International Water Resources Department. He is teaching and conducting research in the fields of environmental geology, groundwater contamination, geothermal energy and hydrogeology. He has coordinated a variety of national and international R&D projects in cooperation with research institutes and companies, among them NATO, World Bank and EBRDfunded projects. Dr. Baba was awarded the "Successful Young Scientists Award" of the Turkish Academy of Science and the "Gold Medal Award" of the Turkish Geological Engineering Association Dr. Baba is the author of several peer-reviewed scientific publications and contributions to international conferences and is the editor of the books "Groundwater and Ecosystems," "Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources, Issues of National and Global Security" (NATO Science Series, Springer) and "Geothermal Systems and Energy: Turkey and Greece" (CRC Press). Currently, he is the Vice Rector of the Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir.