Research on the Clean Energy Heating Systems in Rural Beijing

Fog and haze weather has seriously affected many important aspects of human life and physical fitness. In order to improve air quality, local government has transformed coal-fired heating into clean energy heating in Beijing rural areas. This paper introduces three typical clean energy heating systems which are low temperature air source heat pump (LTASHP), thermal storage heater (TSH) and wall-mounted gas furnace (WGF), researches and tests the practical operation situation of three heating systems in the field. To compare technical and economic feasibility of three heating systems, the paper takes such residence where energy-saving standard of building palisade structure is approximately 50% as the research object, and establishes technical and economic mathematical analysis models, compares primary energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of three heating systems. This paper adopts annual cost approach, comprehensively takes into account power capacity increasing tariff and gas pipe network construction fee, and compares initial investment, operation cost and annual cost of three heating systems respectively from the perspective of users and government. The results show that LTASHP is the most energy-saving and its annual cost is lowest in the three heating systems. LTASHP is the most suitable alternative solutions to coal-fired heating in the three heating systems in rural Beijing. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.