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http://dx.doi.org/10.7836/kses.2019.39.2.057

Case Study for Energy Conservation Measures of Hospital Buildings Using the Analysis of Energy Consumption Structure  

Lee, Sangmoon (Building Energy Center, Energy Division, Korea Conformity Laboratories(KCL))
Cho, Jinkyun (Building Energy Center, Energy Division, Korea Conformity Laboratories(KCL))
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Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society / v.39, no.2, 2019 , pp. 57-69 More about this Journal
Abstract
Because the hospital building operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for treatment and restoration of patients, it has a different pattern of energy use than that of ordinary buildings. Hospitals contribute to energy consumption and have a negative environmental impact. This study aims to find how meaningful energy performance, reflecting good energy management and ECMs, can be operated for hospital buildings, a category encompassing complex buildings with different systems and large differences between them. In this study, we proposed the energy diagnosis & evaluation method and energy management process to verify energy saving through operation data based on system & facility characteristics, operation pattern and energy consumption characteristics of hospital building. Energy consumption structures were surveyed throughout 4 reference hospital in Seoul, Korea. Findings confirm that different hospital departments have hugely different energy-demand profiles. Energy efficiency and energy saving potentials are presented. The energy performance analysis can be applied to a wide range of problems in energy-system operation.
Keywords
Hospital facility; ECMs: Energy Conservation Measures; Energy analysis; Energy consumption structure;
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