Enhancing Sustainability Performance in Aquatic Centres: A Life Cycle Approach

提高水上运动中心的可持续发展绩效：生命周期方法

• 批准号: 578459-2022
• 负责人: Sadiq, RehanRS
• 金额: $ 8.2万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=761736
• 关键词: Enhancing; Sustainability; Performance; Aquatic; Centres

Swimming is one of Canada's most popular activities for exercise and relaxation. Canada has around 2700 publicly owned pools, out of which > 35% are indoor swimming pool facilities (ISPs). ISPs require high energy inputs to maintain good water and indoor quality and thus pose a unique challenge for municipalities to meet provincial and federal greenhouse gas reduction targets. This project involves a partnership between academia, industry, and municipalities to develop best management practices to minimize environmental impacts and reduce overall operational costs while maintaining high water and air quality standards. This requires developing a water-health-energy nexus (WHEN) to understand the interdependencies between energy and resource inputs, water and air quality, and cost-effectiveness. The project will be completed in several phases, i.e., (1) monitor and collect data related to water and air quality in (ISPs), (2) Develop predictive models to understand the fate and transport of water and air quality parameters using integrated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models with fugacity-based approaches, (3) Investigate the energy and air quality performance of the selected facilities through continuous monitoring under different background settings, (4) Assess and optimize water and air quality, life cycle costs, and environmental impacts of ISP operations to evaluate the feasibility of reaching net-zero status (energy and carbon emissions) using WHEN, and (5) Develop operational strategies for healthy, economically feasible, and sustainable pool management. These objectives will be integrated into an 'ePool' dashboard interface which will monitor pool conditions in real-time for operators. This tool will help ISP facility managers develop a trade-off between a good indoor pool environment (water and air quality) and optimal operational strategies (low economic and environmental impacts) to promote the sustainable operations of ISPs.

游泳是加拿大最受欢迎的运动和放松活动之一。加拿大有大约2700个公共游泳池，其中超过35%是室内游泳池设施（ISP）。互联网服务提供商需要高能量投入来保持良好的水和室内质量，因此对市政当局实现省和联邦温室气体减排目标构成了独特的挑战。该项目涉及学术界、工业界和市政当局之间的伙伴关系，以制定最佳管理做法，最大限度地减少环境影响，降低总体运营成本，同时保持较高的水和空气质量标准。这就需要建立一个水-健康-能源关系，以了解能源和资源投入、水和空气质量以及成本效益之间的相互依存关系。该项目将分几个阶段完成，即，(1)监测和收集与水和空气质量相关的数据，（2）使用基于逸度的方法的综合计算流体动力学（CFD）模型开发预测模型，以了解水和空气质量参数的归宿和传输，（3）通过在不同背景设置下的连续监测，调查选定设施的能源和空气质量性能，（4）评估和优化水和空气质量，生命周期成本，以及ISP运营的环境影响，以评估使用WHEN达到净零状态（能源和碳排放）的可行性，以及（5）制定健康，经济可行和可持续的游泳池管理的运营策略。这些目标将被集成到一个“ePool”仪表板界面中，该界面将为运营商实时监控游泳池状况。该工具将帮助ISP设施管理人员在良好的室内游泳池环境（水和空气质量）和最佳运营策略（低经济和环境影响）之间进行权衡，以促进ISP的可持续运营。