Fuel consumption of diesel heating boiler

How to choose an effective way to heat a private home using a diesel boiler? The issue of heating residential premises in today's world is quite acute. And this applies not only to our country, since the global crisis has spread to most countries, and energy prices have increased almost everywhere.

Therefore, the population of these countries is trying to choose the optimal methods for heating their own homes. In this article we will consider one of these methods - heating using liquid diesel fuel.

What determines the fuel consumption of a diesel heating boiler?

There are quite a lot of answers to this question. Although gas boilers are more common, not every house has a gas mains supply, and sometimes it is not possible to install it, and sometimes it is very expensive. Electric boilers, on the one hand, require a powerful power supply to the house, and on the other hand, heating with their help is quite expensive. The only advantage is ease of use and maintenance.

Fuel consumption of a diesel boiler per day

Say that the consumption of a diesel heating boiler is in liters. per day will be cheap, it’s impossible. But let's look at how the amount of fuel required per day and, accordingly, for the heating season is calculated.

Important! The initial data is the required boiler power. And it depends on the method of insulating the house and its area. If data on the boiler power exists, then diesel fuel consumption is calculated by multiplying the power by a factor of 0.1. The result is fuel consumption per hour. Multiply by 24 hours to get daily fuel consumption. By multiplying the resulting amount by 30, we obtain a monthly supply of solarium needed to heat the house.

Based on this, you can prepare a tank for storing liquid fuel. During the heating season, it can be replenished approximately once a month, without waiting for the fuel to run out. The heating season is usually calculated in the middle zone for 100 days. In Siberia and the North this number is higher.

Important! If diesel fuel will be stored outside, it is necessary to buy winter non-freezing diesel fuel, otherwise in severe frosts there will be nothing to heat with.

Fuel consumption for different boiler models

Today there are quite a lot of different companies on the liquid fuel boiler market. The main criterion according to which you should make a choice is price/quality. Famous European brands are distinguished by high reliability and quality, but the price of these boilers is quite high.

There are Chinese developments that are quite cheap and of low quality. Among domestic manufacturers there are many little-known manufacturers with questionable product quality. Therefore, when choosing an oil-fuel boiler, you should pay attention to well-known domestic brands that already have a fairly good reputation and value their name.

Why fuel consumption increases, how to reduce it

Fuel consumption for diesel boilers can be reduced using a smart home system.What kind of system is this? Each room of a heated building has its own temperature sensors and methods for automatically adjusting it in the room.

By programming control devices, it is possible to reduce the temperature in rooms where no one is present, and then return it to normal.

Heating a building during the heating season is not so easy. But if you consider the issues of efficient use of fuel and purchasing it in bulk at the right time, you can significantly reduce the financial burden on the family budget.