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STEER · Support Tool for Energy Efficiency pRogrammes in medical centres

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2014-12-01 → 2018-11-30
EU contribution
€1,206,000
Participants
10
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Support Tool for Energy Efficiency pRogrammes in medical centres

STEER originates from the need to address energy efficiency actions in hospitals with the strategic goal to support the process of forecasting the effects of actions aimed at reducing energy consumption. The end product of the STEER Project is the E3 prototype software tool for predicting the energy behavior of medical centers, developed as a web service. Once required data is input via a web Graphical User Interface, the developed algorithm is called to perform the calculations that assess to ideal energy consumption of the building. The input to the calculating algorithm is a set of data that describes in detail the main features of the facility, such as the buildings’s envelope. The back-end tool was designed to operate in a dual mode. The first mode is associated with buildings for which are available all the required data described below. In this case, the tool provides a graphical user interface for data input. The second mode of operation is to be used when data is missing, or when the building energy audit is not available, which actually happens, according to the consortium experience, in the majority of the hospitals. The algorithm is based on the STEER Quasi Steady State Model (QSSM), implemented in GNU Octave environment. The QSSM (Quasi Steady State Model) was developed in accordance to the procedures specified in the International Standard EN13790 2nd edition, 2008-03-01 (Energy performance of buildings – Calculation of energy use for heating and cooling), which lists various possible methods to be used in the calculation process. E3 tool generates a final report that offers to the user information on the energy behavior of the simulated building. This report presents the total electrical consumption of the building from all sources per month as well as for the entire year. It also presents the electrical consumption associated with the heating and cooling system of the building. All this data is presented in a color-coded graph. The output webpage report consists of graphs and a table on yearly and monthly consumption as shown in figure 4. The aim is to have a fast and clear representation of the energy consumption segmentation in energy systems (HVAC systems or other systems as lighting, medical devices etc), in different zones and in different months. Output data can be downloaded in pdf files presenting the same data as in figure 4, but with tabular and graph view for each output.

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Project objective

To meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets set by the European Commission and to reduce the reliance on imported energy sources from not-EU countries, the energy efficiency sector vitally needs basic analytical and decision support tools. This is especially true for large scale energy-consumer plants (for ex. foundries) but also for medical centres which typically (1) use large amounts of energy, (2) run a wide number of energy consuming machinery with different electrical profiles, (3) serve a weak population that may be heavily affected by energy shortages, (4) have a continuous level of service with special periodicity and peak times, and (5) have to abide to all sorts of strict regulations (for ex. special air quality requirements). The aim of this project is to create a tool that will provide medical centres and any other large institution involved in their energy efficiency programmes (governmental institutions, utilities providers, lending establishments, independent auditors, managers and technical staff), with information on the medical centre’s ideal energy consumption in different scenarios and on the most appropriate energy reduction plan for the medium-long term. The project’s primary proposal is to identity the main variables that are responsible for the energy consumption in medical centres and give to each of them a weight. A novel mathematical model will be produced which will reproduce energy consumption in given scenarios.On the basis of the above model, the project will proceed to build a scenario-based assessment and a prediction tool. It will be used by energy managers and decision makers to evaluate and compare future investments and actions to reduce energy consumption, also on the basis of their economic return. The acquired knowledge and expertise will be embedded in a software prototype (E3s) that will be used as a decision support tool. The product of each phase will be tested in the four medical centres that support the project

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • EDISON FACILITY SOLUTIONS S.P.A. · TrentoCoordinatorItaly
  • AFEKA - THE ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING IN TEL AVIV · TEL AVIVIsrael
  • AFEKA YISSUMIM LTD · TEL AVIVIsrael
  • ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS · MAROUSSIGreece
  • CTADVENTURE SPÓLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA · GdanskPoland
  • ENERTECH SOLUTION SRL · MILANOItaly
  • MEAZON SA · PATRASGreece
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoItaly
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA · GranadaSpain
  • UNIVERSITAT BAYREUTH · BayreuthGermany

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union