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Health care facility electrical demand loads

[...]facilities managers are increasingly striving for better efficiencies - a challenge that calls for analyzing and balancing the safety, comfort and green features in a building. [...]the design requirements for feeder and branch circuit loads and the load growth assumptions justifying spare capa...

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Published in:Health facilities management 2022-06, Vol.35 (5), p.30-34
Main Authors: Hutchison, Victoria, Ranganathan, Sreenivasan
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Summary:[...]facilities managers are increasingly striving for better efficiencies - a challenge that calls for analyzing and balancing the safety, comfort and green features in a building. [...]the design requirements for feeder and branch circuit loads and the load growth assumptions justifying spare capacity are being reexamined. [...]an intensive care unit area may have a higher electrical load than a waiting room. [...]all department types should be measured over a long period of time to determine appropriate demand factors. Due to the law of probabilities, the anticipated peak loads at higher levels of the system get lower than the aggregated sum of the underlying panel loads because all panels do not operate simultaneously at their peak loads. [...]application of a demand factor gives a more conservative result at higher levels of the distribution system. * Spare capacity to meet a potential surge.
ISSN:0899-6210
1943-5142