EFFICIENCY OF GAS-FIRED HEAT GENERATORS FOR INDIVIDUAL AND DECENTRALIZED HEATING SYSTEMS

Abstract

Modern equipment for heating systems of residential consumers, public buildings is characterized by a significant variety of design and efficiency. Gas-fired heat generators have several advantages when compared with devices on other types of fossil fuels. The main advantages of gas heat equipment are to reduce emissions into the environment, increase the efficiency. For consumers, an important aspect is the economic reduction of heating costs, the ability to control and regulate, the high security of modern systems using gas fuel. The safe use and high efficiency of gas heating equipment depends on a number of factors. The first, it is the use of gas fuel corresponding to the specified parameters. Secondly, it is the organization of the process of supplying air and removing combustion products for burning. Thirdly, it is the process of supplying gas with specified parameters, which is determined by the process of functioning of the gas distribution network. The article describes the work of gas heat generators at different temperatures of the incoming combustion air. Depending on the installation of the equipment, the air temperature for combustion may differ significantly from the temperature at which the heat generators were tested. Thus, the efficiency will differ from that stated in the passport when the temperature of the air entering the combustion changes. In the gas heat generators, there are a number of losses associated with chemical, mechanical incomplete burning, losses with products of combustion. In the work, all losses were analyzed, and the efficiency of a gas heat generator of 60 kW power was determined. As a result of the study, the annual effect in terms of gas volume was determined for given conditions.