Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Professionals
Providing energy efficiency and a sustainable, healthy indoor environments are inextricably linked challenges which have been amplified by the recent pandemic and the increasing global demand for decarbonisation.
The Australian HVAC sector alone, consumes around 22% of all electricity produced, and is responsible for around 50% of peak demand on the electricity grid.
Applied as an odour filter, PlasmaShield can be utilised to achieve reduced outside air requirements via the AS1668.2 Appendix D pathway, enabling outside air flowrates to be reduced by up to 75% whilst still achieving “deemed to satisfy” (DTS) compliance. This presents an opportunity to demonstrate “improvement” on DTS flowrates and enhanced indoor air quality, without the load and energy premium usually associated with increased outside air flowrates.
Our controlled studies implementing PlasmaShield® in a 10,000m2 office building in Adelaide, SA with the aim of reducing the outside air while meeting the NCC & AS1668.2 Deemed To Satisfy requirements, yielded the following savings:
- Annual gas energy saving of 791MJ (when natural gas is used for heating)
- Annual electrical energy saving of 54MWh (when electricity is used for heating and cooling)
- Annual CO2 emissions saving of 53 tons
- Peak thermal load saving – heating: 25%
- Peak thermal load saving – cooling: 13%
PlasmaShield® enables Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
PlasmaShield® enables Energy Efficiency & Sustainability Professionals to use our industry compliant product integration and utility tools which help quantify CO2 emissions, energy, peak load, and capital cost reductions in order to optimise and customise the ventilation configuration to suit objectives of each project.
This approach opens previously unseen opportunities to deliver indoor air quality enhancements as well as energy and peak load improvements.
Obtaining Energy Efficiency and Building Rating improvements:
- For Green Star Design & As Built v2 (up to 6 points)
- For WELL v2 (up to 10 points)
- For NABERS Indoor Environment Quality (up to 12% of Base Building Rating)
Contact us to access the full suite of our design tools, and See our published data for details.
