We decided to start to save money by installing a gas meter to pay is not on average, and for the actually used gas?Then you should calculate your gas stove gas consumption to pick up the correct capacity of the gas meter.
How much gas stove consumes
The content of the article
- How much gas stove consumes
- About gas meters
- Tips for saving gas
Compared with a gas boiler and a gas stove, gas stove takes so little gas that this figure can generally not take into account. For example, in winter you are using 500-600 cubic meters of gas, and in the summer - only 40-50 cubic meters. m. lion's share (80-90%) have gas flow for heating the water column, not for cooking on a gas stove. Ie cooker takes you 3-5 cubic meters of gas per month. Just minuscule some!
But if you are going to put a gas meter, with the farm only one gas stove, you be sure to calculate the maximum values of gas consumption to select the correct device for his accounting.
How many takes of gas stove in one hour and in the past month? To answer this question, we need to know:
- number of burners;
- torch power of each of them;
- frequency of usage of household cookers.
The documents on the stove burners usually indicated power. Let's say you have a stove with four burners with a capacity of:
- one per 1 kW;
- two of 1.9 kW;
- one 3.5 kW.
(In this case 8.30 kW) burner sum capacity divided by the thermal conductivity of the gas (11.8 kWh / m³) and ultimately obtain the gas flow rate: 0.8-1 cubic meters / hour. This, of course, the maximum rate for the case when all four burners will work without interruption! But it was he, and we need to select the appropriate gas meter. And it was he who determines how much gas actually goes to work your plate.
If you have a 2-burner or a 3-burner stove, the gas consumption will be even less.
If the stove is standing on your kitchen ever since the king of peas, and documents on it somewhere hopelessly lost, Use for the averaged data calculations: Power Plate count of 10 kW, and in the end it turned out that the waste gas will be 1.2-2.5 cubic meters
About gas meters
Calculate the flow rate of gas can proceed to the selection of models of gas meter.It is very important to choose it according to the capacity of gas appliances to avoid inaccuracies in the recording of the results of gas used. In this case, the gas meter will have to be replaced, and that the additional cost of buying a new counter and pay for its installation.
capacity index of the gas meter denoted by the letter G. If you are using only a gas stove, without boiler and column, then knowing that your gas appliance is able to spend not more than 2.5 cubic meters, meter select G1,6, well, in extreme cases, G2,5, but not Moreover.
If you use natural gas for heating homes and for heating water and cooking, then there can be problems with the choice of gas meter. After the minimum gas flow rate will be 0.3 cubic meters / hour (where you will use only one plate), and the maximum - 7.1 m³ / h (when the winter heat the batteries become gas and water for washing). Counter with the G index, able to give accurate readings in such a huge range in nature simply does not exist. So you are likely to have in this case to set two different power meter - separate to the boiler to the column and separately to the plate. It's a shame, because the two have to pay for the installation of the gas meter, get two personal account and pay for each of them separately.
If there is a gas stove and a gas boiler two-circuit, the output range is not as striking, because the boiler and heater can not work at the same time, because they have one thing in common burner. This means that it will be possible to choose the appropriate capacity gas meter and the gas meter must be installed separately on the plate will disappear.
If you have a small family, and prepare you a little bit, replace with four gas stove to the plate with two or three burners. Then you can save money by purchasing a less powerful gas meter.
Tips for saving gas
Even if it seems that the stove consumes a miserly amount of gas still does not mean that you have to spend wastefully blue fuel.Try to do so that the heat did not go away empty. What do you need? Follow the simple rules to memorize as "Our Father":
- putting gas pot or kettle, be sure to cover the bowl with a lid - this will enable to save about 20% of the gas;
- the level of the gas flame should not "come out" outside of the pan - make sure that the bottom is always overlaps the area of the flame;
- should be brought to the boiling contents of the pan at the maximum fire, since at low wall pans, heated slowly increase the flow rate of more than 10%;
- near the plate should be of the air conditioner, fan or drafts of air vents that are able to blow the flames away, thus increasing the gas flow rate to 15%;
- the fire after boiling pan contents need to minimize, so that the liquid does not boil over;
- try not to use the stove for cooking small portions, since the gas flow rate at the same time will be approximately the same as for a large volume of food.
Now that you know how to calculate your oven gas consumption, you can buy a gas meter the necessary power without any problems. Just install it necessary to entrust to specialists.
