ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN THE HOSPITAL SECTOR: A CASE STUDY OF JENIN GOVERNMENTAL HOSPITAL
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Date
2022-10-16
Authors
Abedalrahim Hilme Khrawish
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The hospital sector can be described aslarge energy-consuming buildings, especially in the form of electrical energy, so, this energy is utilized in many forms in order to provide comfort, treatment, and safety for human beings by relying on energy management and renewable alternatives to produce energy.
This studyis based on rationalizing energy consumption and exploits solar energy in providing energy to the hospitals in Palestine, specifically in the West Bank, where the electrical energy consumption in the hospitals can be reduced from 4057.7 MWh/year to 2888.6 MWh/year. Also, there is thereduction ofthe production of one of the most greenhouse gases that are responsible for global warming in the world. Researched CO2 production has been reduced by 1,292,134 kg of CO2/year.
A set of detailed data was given regarding the proposed building, such as annual costs, annual cost per unit floor area, component cost as a percentage of total cost, annual energy and emissions summary (annual costs, annual energy consumption, annual emissions, annual cost per unit floor area, component cost as a percentage of total cost), annual energy costs - heating and cooling system, annual energy costs - new heating system, annual energy costs - new economizer system, annual energy costs - old cooling system and annual energy costs - old heating system, all these data appear in detail as shown in the Appendix (c).
It is worth mentioning that energy consumption in the air conditioning system has also been rationalized from 2178.7 MWh/year to 1167.4 MWh/year, which results in reducing CO2 production to 1,092,139 kg/year.
Using diesel to operate the heating system, 340,20 kg of CO2/year was produced, and the production of carbon dioxide gas was reduced to 31,069 kg of CO2/year as a result of modernizing the heating system.
Depending on the design of the solar cell system, 148.8 Mwh/year of solar energy has beensaved and carbon dioxide emissions were reduced as a result of generating this energy from a non-renewable source 160,766 kg of CO2/year.
Keywords: Energy Consumption, Energy Consumption, Greenhouse gases.