https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11857/259 Faculty of Technical Education 2026-06-02T16:22:21Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11857/3600 Traditional Window Designs of Kirklareli, Turkey PREFACE Erdoğan, Nevnihal; Yüksek, İzzet [Abstract Not Available] 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11857/3474 ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BUILDING ELEMENTS OF TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS IN THE RURAL AREA OF THRACE REGION (TURKEY) Esin, T.; Yüksek, İzzet Today serious environmental problems are being experienced all around the world. The increase in these problems emerges to a large extent from the buildings, because building make negative impacts on environmental values during their life cycle due to various reasons. For this reason, one of the targets of the modern architecture needs to be the design of environment-friendly ecological buildings which do not harm the environment. The traditional buildings in Turkey have little environmental effects. The fact that the environmental factors have been taken into account in designing these buildings have enabled them to be much more nature-friendly. For this reason, they are considered to be ecological buildings. The aim of this study is to investigate the characters of the building elements of the traditional buildings from an ecological point of view. The rural buildings reflecting the authentic characters in Thrace have been chosen as the subject of this study. These buildings are the products of the experience the local people gained through natural living conditions of thousands of years. For this reason, it is thought that these buildings will be a model for the solution of environmental problems of today as well. A field work has been carried out in the selected region, and building elements of the buildings here such as wall, roof and flooring have been examined and then analysed ecologically. As a result of the study, it has been found that these elements have ecological features in several ways. In particular, the fact that they have been built with natural, renewable and completely local materials and that their heat performances are in a good condition have been found to be positive from an ecological poit of view. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11857/3445 Extraction of Co(II) and Ni(II) from concentrated HCl solutions using Alamine 336 Sayar, N. A.; Filiz, M.; Sayar, A. A. Extraction of Co(II) and Ni(II) from aqueous HCl solutions into organic Alamine 336-m-xylene systems were studied. Extraction experiments were repeated for three initial metal concentration ratios with total initial metal concentration of 7 g L-1, each at 1, 5 and 10 M HCl. The extraction percentage, E, in terms of volume percentage of Alamine content, V, in solvent mixture, were determined for each metal. Optimal Alamine 336 contents were reported for a single stage extraction. The amine loading factor and separation factor values were also determined in terms of V-e. Alamine 336 was found to be a suitable extracting and separating agent for Co(II)-Ni(II) containing solutions at 5 M HCl. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11857/3217 EFFECT OF THE ECOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS ON LIFE QUALITY AND USER SATISFACTION Yüksek, İzzet; Esin, T. Buildings have important effects on the health and several performances of human because a long part of the human life passes inside the buildings. That is why the physical conditions in the buildings should be suitable for the human health. One of the important properties of the ecological buildings is providing suitable comfort conditions inside the building by natural methods without consuming energy. The aim of this paper is to study the life quality and comfort conditions in traditional buildings. It is believed that traditional buildings, which have many environmental properties, provide suitable inside life quality by consuming low energy. That is why taking into account the traditional buildings in the Thrace (Turkey) region as an example, a field research is made and the properties of the buildings are researched. Besides, a public survey is made for understanding the satisfaction of the building inside comfort conditions of the people who live in these houses and the survey results are evaluated. As a result of the evaluation, it is understood that the users are satisfied by the inside comfort conditions. According to the obtained results, the positive effects of environmental/ecological properties of the traditional buildings on the life quality and comfort conditions are discussed. It is believed that this knowledge will be guiding for the design of today buildings. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z