SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2003.016 2003.016 The enactment of thermal efficiency standard for domestic gas appliances and its foreground of Implementing in Chongqing PengShini PengLuo FuXiuping Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, P.R. China Chongqing Gas Group, Chongqing 400020, P.R. China 24102003 2 1 978-1-995850-10-8 75 78 © 2003 Copyright WSSET 2003

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.

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