Network Performance Humidity

Energy-Saving Strategy for Operating Rooms Released

SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association has published a monograph titled Operating Room HVAC Setback Strategies . The monograph , which is part of a series of publications that cover single topics in clinical/biomedical engineering, facility engineering, design and construction, and safety and security management, details how operating room HVAC setback strategies can save energy. An operating room (OR) setback strategy reduces energy use by curtailing the amount of air supplied to an OR when the room is not in use. It may also allow temperature or humidity settings, or both, to drift when the room is not occupied.

As a lead author of the publication, Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch (M+NLB) identified heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) setback strategies and discussed opportunities and considerations for saving energy in the OR environment. The paper introduces the setback concept and highlights issues to help healthcare organizations move toward implementing the concept in their facilities.

Referencing comprehensive national and state standards from the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for healthcare ventilation, the publication lists key considerations for adoption of OR setback strategies and fundamental controlling factors that determine how a strategy is implemented.

“While doing research and talking with experienced design engineers from across the country, it became clear that a source of confusion for facilities engineers and owners was likely the range of solutions available for energy savings in operating rooms,” said lead M+NLB contributing author and environmental performance analyst Christy Love. “To narrow these solutions down we sifted through specifics, distilled the commonalities and identified the objective considerations that would help any owner move toward the best solution for their facility.

Environmental Factors That Can Affect Your Network

When you think of servers crashing, usually you think of some hardware or software failure. Perhaps you even consider a rogue intruder bringing your network down, so you have the highest quality firewall installed on your network. Other factors can affect server performance that can ultimately contribute to server down time. Environmental elements can be overlooked by some network administrators. Heat, for instance, is a critical element that should be firmly controlled within network hardware.

Humidity is a major environmental factor to watch around server hardware. A server has a threshold of humidity tolerance when it’s powered down that’s different from when it’s powered on. Humidity while a server is powered down is usually up to 90 percent. It is largely different, however, when your server remains in a high humidity area when it’s running. Humidity can cause condensation within the server’s circuit boards. Most people know that electronics and liquid water do not combine very well. This is why it is important to have an efficient air conditioner that properly keeps the environment at low humidity.

Let me go on with this short article. Heat is probably the most common elemental issue that can affect server hardware. Any high powered server can generate large amounts of heat. The hardware comes complete with many fans that can pull heat away from the hardware and into the surrounding area. Occasionally, these fans fail and that can create an issue of heat doing permanent damage to electronic components.

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