Potentials and Limits of Oxidative Photocatalysisand Possible Applications in the Field of Cultural Heritage

Cannistraro, G.; Cannistraro, Mauro; Piccolo, Antonio; Restivo, Roberta

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.787.111

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“…This value is more than double the average Italian one (0.38 t/MWh) [7] and it is basically due to the use of diesel to feed the thermoelectric power plant. Therefore, the use of diesel as fuel implies the emission of large amounts of CO 2 , NO x and SO x during the fuel combustion and also its transportation, with a significant environmental impact [13,14].…”

Section: Pantelleria's Environmental Policies and Landscapementioning

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Sustainability of the Renewable Energy Extraction Close to the Mediterranean Islands

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Curto

2017

Energies

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Abstract:The aim of this work is to explore the possibility of transitioning a fuel powered island to a renewable powered one. This transition is analyzed for the real MV/LV distribution system of the island of Pantelleria, in the Mediterranean Sea. Particularly, this work is focused on a renewable source nowadays totally unused: wave energy. Thanks to the innovative generator prototype designed by Department of Energy of University of Palermo (Italy), wave energy is able to represent a primary source for the production of electric energy in the Mediterranean islands. The procedures applied in the present article, as well as the main equations used, are the result of previous applications made in different technical fields that show a good replicability.

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Section: Pantelleria's Environmental Policies and Landscapementioning

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Sustainability of the Renewable Energy Extraction Close to the Mediterranean Islands

Franzitta

Curto

2017

Energies

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“…The development and use of new technologies, "e-sensing", for monitoring in the hospital fields, [14][15][16], in urban settings: for the detection of pollutants main [17][18][19][20][21], and in the ambient of museums, [22][23][24][25], allows you to take into account the synergies between all monitoring parameters and the consequences of the exceeding the of parameters of risk.…”

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Analysis and measures for energy savings in operating theaters

Cannistraro¹,

Cannistraro²,

Galvagno³

et al. 2017

IJHT

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In hospitals, the energy demand of the different areas can be divided in form of thermal energy, cooling and electricity. The complexity of the energy system of each structure may be different from hospital to hospital as well as to the volume of manufactured. In fact, the energy demand is closely related to:-health activities that take place in it; -its geographical location; -the structural type and adopted plant The use of different type of energy sources is due to the implementation of different technology options and then to specific operating costs and levels of different issues.In the graphs below (Figure 1 and 2) is shown the values and percentages of annual energy demand required for two different hospitals located in the northern of Italy, respectively: Zucchi Clinic (MB) and the City of Pavia Care Institute (PV) -Reference year 2012.The energy demand for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is equal to 45% for the first structure and of 69% for the second structure analyzed.It denotes in both cases, that this request always results in a higher percentage than all other requests and in the case of the care institute City of Pavia, the contribution percentage is higher of 50% higher.Taking into consideration the same study, conducted for the Zucchi clinic and the City of Pavia health institution, also ensures that the demand for natural gas (methane gas) for technological uses is particularly relevant to the request for HVAC uses, and then for technological uses. In fact, the following charts (Figure 3 and 4) show that the demand for natural gas is higher in the winter months with a INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTIn hospital, air conditioning and air treatment systems are of great importance both for functional and energetic point of view. In fact, these systems must guarantee the conditions of hygrothermal air quality and comfort for people (patients, staff, visitors), but also meet the operational requirements related to the medical activities in specific environments or departments. In particular, diagnosis and surgical activities request to ensure a high air quality conditions in order to ensure the appropriate environments of asepsis and hygiene [1][2][3]. The aim of this study is to evaluate the possible energy saving solutions to optimize and reduce energy demand [4][5] in the health facilities. Particular attention is focused to the operating theaters, which, because of the type of technological systems used, have a major impact on energy demand the entire healthcare facility.

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“…This proceeding, followed by a lot of country, is able to development and use new technologies "e-sensing" to monitoring the hospitals field, [12][13][14][15]: for the detection of main pollutants [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], in museums, to study the possible causes of deterioration of works of art, [25][26][27], allows you to joint either all monitoring parameters and avoid the risk to overcome limits of these parameters.…”

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Monitoring of the indoor microclimate in hospital environments a case study the Papardo hospital in Messina

Cannistraro¹,

Bernardo²

2017

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The Italian hospitals are housed in old buildings, some statistics report refers which they have should be about of fifty years old. Recently new structures were built, but the trend is that over restructure and/or redevelop existing buildings, making by a cost-benefit analysis that supports this choice. The Italian construction industry covers the most part of the national energy requirements, and the hospital have a big energy request because the buildings of different areas with different destinations represent the major demand of the needed energy sector.Hospitals must observe the same climate conditions, although the average fuel consumption is three times more than the average values of the residential construction sector.The energy demand in this sector have been used in different way: air conditioning in summer and winter, ventilation, environments lighting, domestic hot water, steam generation for sterilization and humidification, as well as the request by the kitchens, laundries, domestic transport, computers, diagnostic and therapeutic devices, etc.Furthermore, this demand should be absolutely guaranteed, in particular for the thermal and electrical installations, for everyday of the year.The complexity of the equipment used and the regulatory compliance in terms of temperature, humidity and air flow, it could lead considerable consumption, increasing the difficulty of management plants.However, the hospital buildings have a large energy savings potential, which could be achieved improving efficiency of building-plant systems, management of energy.The air conditioning systems of the hospitalization facility should meet specific technical and functional requirements in order to ensure compliance with the temperature-humidity requirements of itself.The regulatory and legislative system should pay attention to the standards and the eligibility criteria for these environments, such as the rooms to be used as hospital stays, providing a strategy to obtain higher values of comfort and safety.The ABSTRACTIn hospitals, the requirements relating at comfort thermo-hygrometric, lighting and air quality, play a major role and are related, at the characteristics of the building-plant system, and to the activities that take place in it. The climate control of the environments constitutes a major problem in the hospital field, and it has effects not only in the realization of new facilities, but also in the renovations. The systems must be designed and engineered with a full integration with the global project, which is simple in the case of new construction, more difficult in the event of restructuring, since it is necessary to interact with restrictive constraints conditioning, such a distribution of complex and articulated spaces. In design of the systems of a hospital building, two fundamental aspects must be ensured: total control of the thermo-hygrometric parameters (temperature, humidity and air velocity), and the possibility of the control and adjusting -for the single areasof flows and air changes within i...

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Potentials and Limits of Oxidative Photocatalysisand Possible Applications in the Field of Cultural Heritage

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Sustainability of the Renewable Energy Extraction Close to the Mediterranean Islands

Sustainability of the Renewable Energy Extraction Close to the Mediterranean Islands

Analysis and measures for energy savings in operating theaters

Monitoring of the indoor microclimate in hospital environments a case study the Papardo hospital in Messina

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