This paper analyses the principles we should obey and the problems we should be confronted with when thermal efficiency standards for instantaneous gas water heaters and gas ranges are enacted. It is considered that enactment of thermal efficiency standards for domestic gas appliances could intensify economization on domestic gas utilization and marked economic and environmental benefits could be generated consequently.
Keywords. gas; gas appliances; thermal efficiency; energy conservation
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National Standard of the People's Republic of China, domestic instantaneous gas water heaters, Beijing, China Standard Press, 2001.
Chongqing Bureau of Statistics, Chongqing Statistical Yearbook, Beijing, China Statistical Press, 2001.
How to cite this article
Peng, S., Peng, L. and Fu, X. (2003). 'The enactment of thermal efficiency standard for domestic gas appliances and its foreground of Implementing in Chongqing'. SET Proceedings, 2(1), pp. 75-78. https://doi.org/10.65582/set.2003.016
