Energy Performance Contracting for Development Center for Biotechnology HQ, Taipei, Taiwan
Energy Performance Contracting for Development Center for Biotechnology HQ, Taipei, Taiwan
Pharmaceuticals
Development Center for Biotechnology
Taipei City Taiwan
The DCB upholds the goal of
sustainable development of the environment and the industry. While supporting
the progress of the biotechnology industry, the DCB also aims to reduce energy
consumption, thereby optimizing the DCB’s operational efficiency and ensuring
the critical environment of laboratories.
It is important for the DCB to
ensure a stable, safe, and highly functional research environment for its
laboratories. The foremost challenge is high electricity consumption of HVAC
systems due to large volumes of air exchange. The air conditioning accounts for
60% of the total energy consumption of the Building E. After evaluation, the
overall operating costs can be reduced if the air conditioning supply in the
working environments and the laboratories can be adjusted appropriately in
response to the changing air conditioning needs at any time via automatic
operation of chiller plants.
Siemens
provides the DCB with multi-faceted energy-saving solutions to optimize the
energy performance of the entire building via air conditioning system
adjustment, achieving the goals of energy saving, maintenance optimization and
precise management of energy consumption.
The key implementation includes:
Energy
Saving Performance Contracting: Siemens promised
energy-saving performance to be achieved within the guarantee period.
Digital building energy management service: Siemens introduced Navigator, the
cloud-based building energy management platform, to monitor and collect data
such as energy consumption, power data, chiller plant efficiency, air
conditioning equipment efficiency and other data in the building for further
analyses, setting energy saving strategies and tracking performance on a
regular basis.
Chiller plant energy efficiency improvement: Siemens implemented advanced energy
efficiency control for chilled water pumps and cooling water pumps, high-precision
sensors and monitoring system to control the chiller system.
Lab
intake and exhaust system optimization: In order to maintain the
positive/negative air pressure requirements of laboratories, the amount of
exhaust and intake air needs to be steadily controlled. As laboratories must
keep a certain level of cleanliness, the process consumes a lot of energy. Siemens
assisted optimizing the air exchange system by introducing variable-frequency
dynamic control for the jet fan system and adjusting the airflow of the air
handling units to prevent excessive discharge of cold
air and reducing unnecessary waste.
Facilities management system: Service engineers can log in to the
system on site or remotely via internet to record equipment inspection checks.
This digital maintenance data allows easier comparisons and analyzes with
facilities operation data from building management system.
Lighting control: Installing
illuminance sensors in public areas and lobbies allows the DCB to automatically
enable or disable lighting in response to environmental luminance, saving
electricity costs.
Energy savings of 600,000 kWh per
year within the guarantee period
Actual energy savings of
approximate 1.11 million kWh/year; Annual electricity savings of approximate
US$100,000
The total power consumption rate of
the chiller system was reduced from 1.063 kW/RT to 0.832 kW/RT for an average
energy saving rate of 21.7%
Obtained ISO 50001 Certification
via the implementation of Navigator, the cloud-based building energy management
platform
The highly integrated system
creates greater transparency of building data, enabling more efficient energy
saving strategy setting, lowering operating costs, and achieving goal of
sustainability
The
Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB), established in 1984 by Taiwan’s public and
private sectors, with its headquarter located in the Building E of National
Biotechnology Research Park, Taiwan.
