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  • Healthcare Engineering
  • Environmental Science
  • Building Systems

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  • Hospital operating theatres are significant energy consumers within the healthcare sector.
  • Minimizing their carbon footprint is challenging due to critical patient safety requirements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate and assess strategies for reducing the carbon footprint of hospital operating theatres.
  • To develop a robust methodology for estimating carbon footprint reductions.

Main Methods:

  • A multidisciplinary approach combining theatre space monitoring (building management systems) and computational air-flow modelling.
  • Mathematical models were used to assess ventilation duration, efficiency, and heat recovery systems.

Main Results:

  • The study developed a methodology applicable to general hospital suites.
  • Quantifiable reductions in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) were estimated.

Conclusions:

  • Optimizing ventilation operation duration and efficiency, alongside implementing heat recovery, can significantly reduce theatre carbon footprints.
  • The developed methodology provides a framework for assessing and achieving carbon emission reductions in hospital theatres.