Natural Gas Saving And Emissions Decrease In Public Health Care Sector – A Case Study
| Author(s): |
Otto Mierka
(Slovak University of Technology , Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology , Radlinského st 9, 812 37 Bratislava , Slovak Republic)
Miroslav Variny (Slovak University of Technology , Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology , Radlinského st 9, 812 37 Bratislava , Slovak Republic) Ingrida Skalíková (Slovak University of Technology , Department of Building Services, Faculty of Civil Engineering , Radlinského st 11, 810 05 Bratislava , Slovak Republic) Peter Sámel (Slovak University of Technology , Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology , Radlinského st 9, 812 37 Bratislava , Slovak Republic) Ján Kizek (Technical University of Kosice , Department of Thermal Technology and Gas Industry, Faculty of Metallurgy, Materials and Recycling , Letná st 9, 042 00 Košice , Slovak Republic) Róbert Súth (Slovak University of Technology , Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology , Radlinského st 9, 812 37 Bratislava , Slovak Republic) Karol Nagy (Slovak University of Technology , Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology , Radlinského st 9, 812 37 Bratislava , Slovak Republic) |
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| Medium: | journal article |
| Language(s): | English |
| Published in: | Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports, March 2019, n. 1, v. 29 |
| Page(s): | 102-118 |
| DOI: | 10.2478/ceer-2019-0008 |
| Abstract: |
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. |
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