Economic analysis of conventional clean heating methods based on energy efficiency improvement in existing rural houses
Taking a typical rural house in Chengde as an example,the heating energy consumption,retrofit costs and operation costs before and after the energy-saving retrofit of the rural house are analysed based on the on-site operation test data of two different clean heating systems,namely the air-source heat pump heating system and the heat-storage electric boiler heating system.Through the comparative analysis,the energy consumption of the air-source heat pump heating system can be reduced by about 52.5%during heating season compared with that of the heat-storage electric boiler heating system applied to the same typical rural house in Chengde.If the rural house takes the energy-saving retrofit for further energy improvement,the heating energy consumption can be reduced by about 28.7%for both the air-source heat pump heating system and the heat-storage electric boiler heating system,and the operation costs of each heating season can be reduced by 36.9%to 50.8%.The heating operation costs can be reduced significantly by applying the clean heating renovation for heating system and the energy-saving retrofit on envelopes simultaneously.