Emir Hotels Sports Complex, which allows four different football teams to play matches according to UEFA standards and train 16 teams at the same time, hosts the world's leading sports clubs. It has a referee room, fitness centre, locker rooms, showers, and tactics and massage rooms. We offer the athletes a perfect training time as our playing fields are maintained by professional experts. We have a spectator capacity of 700 people and offer spectators a comfortable view in all weather conditions.

Our sustainable sports facility has green lawns, stands, locker rooms, laundry and tailoring.

In order to implement sustainability in all areas, the following studies have been implemented in our sports facility:

1. The lost leakage steam in the condensate return line of the 4000 kilocalorie steam generator in the laundry was used to heat the boilers and radiators in the sports facility, the tailoring shop and the staff canteen. 3 cascade systems and LPG tanks in the sports facility were cancelled.

Details:

Under normal conditions, laundries operate with steam boilers that consume a lot of liquefied natural gas. To reduce fuel consumption and minimize carbon emissions, we preferred to use a steam generator instead of a steam boiler.

We used the chimney heat released into the atmosphere in the steam generator system to generate steam by installing an economizer (energy recovery, heat exchanger, heat transfer). We both prevented the heat coming out of the chimney from being released into the atmosphere (approx. 400 degrees) and generated steam by returning the heat. The steam generated is fed back into the system, ensuring continuous and maximum efficiency of the steam generator. The steam fed into the system returns as 95 degree hot water.

The 95 degree water that returns to our system passes through the heat exchanger system and is sent to the closed heating system of our sports facilities. This lowers the returning water to 70 degrees and returns it to the condensate tank. In other words, by repeatedly using the hot water obtained from steam, we prevent the use of cold water by heating it from scratch.

The real saving and sustainable energy-water adventure begins with the move to sports facilities. The hot water flowing into the system flows through the boilers and is used in radiators and under floor heating. At the same time, the heat gained when the hot water passes through the boiler feeds the hot water installation in sports facilities. This means that hot water from the laundry is used twice via boilers and fed into the system. (1- Radiators and under floor heating 2- Hot water installation: toilet and shower water)

This allowed us to turn off the LPG system and the boilers that provide hot water. Thanks to these recoveries, we were able to completely eliminate the use of LPG and remove the oil-based energy source from the sports facility system. Here too, we avoided the use of fresh water and saved the energy we would need to heat cold water. (We deactivated the 5-ton LPG tank and used the 100% recycled steam to provide hot water and central heating.)

If this system is not used, the backflow of hot water will cause damage to the pumps. To prevent this, the hot water must be discharged into the sewer as waste water. Reclaimed cold water should be fed into the system instead of discarded water. This wastes water discharged into the sewer. There is additional energy consumption to heat new cold water. Chemical consumption increases due to the chemicals used in conditioning.

We have prevented this waste and consumption of energy and chemicals by using the steam generator system and recycling the heat instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.

2. Under normal conditions, irrigation of field lawns causes high water consumption. To minimize this water consumption, field irrigation and rainwater is collected through the drainage system present on all our fields and stored in our 1000 ton water tank. This water collected in the tank is reused for field irrigation. After each irrigation, the water returned to the drain enters the tank and is used again and again. At the same time, this system prevents the medicines used in field and lawn care from mixing with the groundwater and nature and entering the tank via the drainage.

By doing this, we prevent the waste of water, a natural resource, by using rainwater and water diverted from drainage, instead of using zero water every time we irrigate. Since pesticides and fertilizers are continually mixed into the system with water, we have minimized the amount of pesticides used.

With this system, which we have been implementing since 2006, we prevent water waste and use rainwater and wastewater in the most efficient way. In addition, we offer a quality service in our facilities with a sustainable system without harming nature.

Evaluation of the sports facility in general:

Thanks to the solar panels in our facility, we have created a facility that covers its own electricity consumption. In addition, by establishing an energy system that ranges from the waste heat of the laundry to the heating of the sports facilities, which is constantly recycled, as well as ensuring the reuse of rainwater and wastewater, we have created a sustainable system and ensured the efficiency and minimal use of natural resources, which is our main objective. Thanks to our practices, we have set ourselves the goal of making our sports facilities sustainable with an environmentally friendly system focused on recycling.