Natural Gas Saving And Emissions Decrease In Public Health Care Sector – A Case Study
| Autor: | Ingrida Skalíková, Ján Kizek, Miroslav Variny, Róbert Súth, Otto Mierka, Peter Sámel, Karol Nagy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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public building
business.industry Natural resource economics 020209 energy health care sector emissions Heat losses food and beverages Environmental engineering 02 engineering and technology General Medicine 010501 environmental sciences TA170-171 01 natural sciences complex mixtures humanities Public health care natural gas heat loss Natural gas 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Business Business management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, Vol 29, Iss 1, Pp 102-118 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2450-8594 2080-5187 |
| Popis: | A study on natural gas saving and emissions decrease in the public health care sector is presented. The analyzed hospital complex belongs to the largest ones in Slovakia and uses both hot water and water steam for heating purposes. Visual steam system inspection revealed serious inefficiencies, including steam venting, missing pipelines insulation and obsolete steam sources with dysfunctional blow-down system. Defined experiment with stepwise steam appliances shutdown enabled quantification of excess natural gas consumption due to these inefficiencies. Measures proposed for the solution of this state are inexpensive, with a short payback period. The expected natural gas savings amount up to 3200 MWh/year, which represents roughly 50% of the total natural gas consumption in the hospital complex. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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