Pistachio shells to heat eco-city in Gaziantep
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Turkey has begun to tender building its first ecological city, where public buildings could be heated by burning pistachio shells – the abundant local product in the southern province of Gaziantep.
The ambitious project will be founded within five years in a 3,200-hectare area between Gaziantep and Kilis on Turkey’s border with Syria.
French environmental engineering firm Burgeap discovered in December 2013 that Antep pistachio shells – with its 19.26 calorific value per kilo – are the most feasible local energy source in the province.