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Tim Hughes, Brydie Murphy & Scott Yearling (Energy and Sustainability Manager, Energy and Sustainability Coordinator & Porter and Waste Manager, ESNEFT) - Saving Energy and Reducing Waste at ESNEFT

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Join us for an informative talk as we dissect the energy and waste sustainability at E Neft with Bri, the Trust Energy and Sustainability Coordinator, Tim Hughes, the Energy and Sustainability Manager, and Scott, the Porting and Waste Manager. Discover the intricacies behind managing energy within the health setting and learn about our many energy-consuming areas, such as boiler and cooling units, lighting, ventilation, computer equipment, and more. By discussing the energy consumption per square meter, the session also surfaces common inefficiency patterns and explores effective solutions. We'll also illustrate how we transform waste into energy, such as the clinical waste being used for hot water and heating at the Ipswich Hospital. This session will provide an understanding of energy management's vital role in the medical field. Don't miss out - join us and learn how you can pave the way to a more energy-efficient medical workplace.

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Learning objectives

  1. Understand the current energy and waste sustainability practices at E Neft.
  2. Identify the main sources of energy usage within the medical facilities and comprehend the impact of these usages on the overall energy footprint.
  3. Discuss the significance of efficient energy usage in medical settings and demonstrate an understanding of the direct control health professionals have on energy consumption.
  4. Interpret the data provided on the energy usage per square meter in different sections of the hospital and recognize areas with higher than average energy usage.
  5. Learn about the processes in place for the management of waste related to clinical practices, with a particular focus on energy from waste conversion and its effect on the carbon footprint.
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So, hi, everyone. Um I'm Bri, I'm the Trust energy and sustainability coordinator. Um And I'm joined by Tim Hughes, the energy and sustainability manager and Scott yelling the porting and waste manager. Um and we just wanted to talk to you a bit today about the um energy and waste sustainability at E Neft. Um So over to you too. Thank you. Um Yeah, so I have Wellington responsible for energy and sustainability, but today he's going to talk to you about energy. Um I have filled my presentation with lots of pictures um which, you know, just helps in playing with things. So obviously, um energy he's grafting has already come up today. Um is, is the sort of sto two emissions um primarily from electricity. And then we have, we have gas as well and we, we do get through huge volumes of energy which is on the next side. Um And obviously they are, they are things we are in direct control world. So every light switch, we flick on and off is is our decision to turn them on and off. Um So we, we have our, our trust footprint for last year. Um Just in, in terms of volume of energy. And they are, as you can see some very, very good numbers. Um So, you know, a total of 83 million kilowatts just to run the trust sites that we own. So obviously, there are lots of sites we operate from that aren't on this list. Um And they, they are just, these are just ones we own or we lease wholly, um and say 72% of our core footprint, which is only 8% of the total footprint as you trust. Um So that's enough energy 22,000 homes a year just to run our our facility. Um So if we, if we, if we break that and, and look at the energy per square meter, the order gets in a slightly different arrangement. So obviously the on the first table, we had our two acute hospitals consuming the biggest amount of energy and it stands to reason we have lots of treatment going on, lots of fears, diagnostic and imaging. Um So when, when we, when we flick it and look at how much energy is being used per square meter, we, we get a slightly different order. Um As you can see the the microbiology is, is top of our list. It's just over the road. Um You know, they're doing lots of energy intensive things down there. Uh They, they run two or three cycles a day. Um But they're, they're packed into a small building, it's not very efficient, there's no solar panel down there. Um So when, when it's all second on the list and, and as long as your manager that, that says to me that, you know, we need to go and have a look at that because that's primarily outpatient. There are some inpatient wards as well. There, there's no imaging going on apart from an X ray. Um there's no operating the, so you know that that stands out as an outlier for us that we, we need to go and have a look and there some good opportunity to, to reduce what happens there. Um And obviously, we're here to carbon so we can move on and have a look at the carbon footprint which we need. And again, the list changes order again. And no, I remember the Ipswich Hospital in the G Anderson Center, which also at Ipswich Hospital dropped down the list and that's primarily because we're using energy from waste machine at Ipswich. So all the, all the clinical waste in the region goes off for energy to waste incineration that just happens to the onsite Ipswich hospital. So all of that waste gets turned into steam and we're using it on site to produce our hot water and heating. Um which obviously, you know, that is our carbon footprint. We then not use natural gas. Um So, so actually we, we don't want to burn everything there. There's always a, a level of things that we have to burn at the moment with our current technology. So we recover as much as we can. Um We want to use that same technology during the summer cos during the summer, a lot of it gets dumped at the moment or atmosphere. So we're, we're burning it and then that heat's getting dumped and we can use that for cooling and then that, that then avoids our use some electricity. Um Some idea where, where does it all go. Now, all, all these pictures that are about to come up all far from somewhere in left. Um Even this, this background here is one of our service tunnels at Ipswich. Um quite dark, very, quite hard to see. Um But you can see there, there's lots of pipes, lots of cables, they're, they're running all over the site serving all the different areas of the hospital. Um So some heat implant. Nice old photo there from we think it's about 19 sixties and that's our main boiler house against rich. There are four gas driven boilers. Um And then they can back up from oil if, if we lose natural gas feed you to keep the site running. Uh two implants. So these are 22 good sugars. These are cultures of these ones. Um So they, they run on electricity and they, they cool the water down and then it feeds into the various phone call units, our hand units sort of dotting around the buildings. Um So the these two actually feed the comfortable building which you, you can see just behind it. I feel my, how about the apple juice technology failed? I don't know why that all of a sudden it's been catch up. Mm. Did something there? We stopped this, stop showing me show again. Oh, she got now. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Uh I'll just check that it's still working. Ok. Um So what we say, yeah, hot water production. So this is just a hot water distribution system. There's a, a couple of control panels controlling the the heat coming in from the boilers and as it goes out into the road handle units and radiators and fan to units. Thank you. Ok. Still not. Ok. Down uh lighting on this one. Um Like do we put the lightning in here? Obviously, internal, external. Um you know, it's, it's everywhere. We've got lots of internal space. We have to Rold it. Um vehicle in particular always have to meet, meet a certain lighting level. Um We have a lot of treatment, you know, it has to be all right color of lighting as well. Um It all all consumes power some areas and this is um Ipswich again in our maternity block, we replace those lights as a whole some areas we only replace the light shoes because we can't take the fittings down. Um So they, they're not always obvious when you walk around the corridors, you might think it's horrible old lighting. Um, where in fact, we, we have upgraded it. Like, I think I'd come onto that later. Uh, ventilation called a bit called the, the picture on the left is actually our vacuum two system. Um, some runs on ventilation but it, that's what's serving that in the background there. Um, and then this, this right hand is one of our, our newest units again at IW. And that, that big unit only serves one operating here. If you some idea of the, the sheer size of these bits of equipment, I mean, you'd probably get two in this room to to run two theaters. Um It, equipment, it's old switchboard photo there. It's not the current switchboard. I'm not exposing anything hidden in secret. Um You know, obviously the, the the accumulation of small loads, you know, get, gets huge, you know, we are, we have what 12,000 staff, if half of us have one computer that, you know, it's a massive amount of energy to, to run all that equipment. I know from the um the new Epic outbreak, obviously all the new computers and the scanners and the the barcode readers and the printers that that comes from about 400 kilts of loads. Um whi which is a a phenomenal amount of power just just to run some computers, uh diagnostic imaging every photo at theaters. I again, just put the lights in there where there's lots of lots of equipment in theaters, not only consuming electricity, but also emitting heat. So they're, they're warming the face stuff as we go and we change the air in the, the to 25 times an hour. So we have to shuck all that heat out, cool it down and put it back in 25 times an hour. Um, again, that was small imaging equipment. Uh, catering equipment, there's a, a couple of trolley there but obviously they, they're all the, the kitchens and the, the trolley, which what these two are, um, you know, all all consuming equipment. We have to feed our patients, obviously. Um So all that energy goes into that as well. Um Domestic kitchens docking around the site. Um Obviously this is an older one, the kettles and microwaves, fridges, freezers. Um This is not a chat.