DOMESTIC LPG SAVINGS AT YOUR KITCHEN

• Check the color of flame in the LPG stove. It must be Bright Blue color. If is orange, yellow or non- uniform then your burner needs cleaning. For any equipment the loss is more and frequently occurring at the point of distribution only. LPG loss happens more at Burner, the point of distribution.

• Use wide bottomed shallow vessel of breadth 10 inches or 25mm above burner so that flame is spreads only at bottom & not creeping on its sides this will reduce your cooking time and the kitchen also does not get hot.  See today the flame in your stove and your vessels wide enough to cover the flame. It is a good practice to cover cooking vessels and pans with a lid, as an open vessel loses heat to the atmosphere, which means a waste of fuel.

• Whenever you change the cylinder to the stove, first write with a wet chalk piece the date of taking the new cylinder on cylinder wall. You must know number of days each cylinder supplying gas to your house.

• A coating of undissolved salts is usually found on the insides of kettles and Cookers. Even 1 mm millimeter thick coating can reduce the flow of heat to the vessel’s contents. This increases your fuel consumption by as much as 10%. Remember Cooking vessels should always be scrubbed clean.

• Make full use of pressure cooker. It takes only one third of time compared to conventional cooking Pressure cookers used with separators lead to substantial fuel saving. Locate the separators now.

• LPG SAFETY: - This Liquefied Petroleum Gas is a clean high octane eco-friendly fuel. LPG in gaseous state is nearly twice as heavy as air. Any leakage of LPG.  Therefore, tends to settle down at floor level, particularly in depressions, pits, drains etc. Ground level ventilation to disperse leaking gas & prevent accumulation is therefore most important. LPG can be ignited by static electric charges, tiny sparks, etc.

• Vaasthu rules reflect safety. Keep your kitchen or back door closed in the evening. First thing in the morning is to open the back door or window at kitchen and start your morning duty. This habit makes the lady not to switch on kitchen lights first, but first open the natural lighting & ventilation and resume.

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•  However, liquid LPG is almost half as heavy as water. Liquid LPG when expanded generates 250 volumes of gaseous LPG. That is 1 liter LPG liquid gives out 250 liters of LPG gas.  For comparison sake, you must know 1 KG of LPG is 11000 Kilo calories where as 1unit of Electricity is 860 Kilo calories only. The leakage of liquid LPG is therefore very dangerous. Have you capped your LPG cylinder not in use?

• In the commercial establishments & canteens etc, Use LPG flow metering and Digital weigh scales to weigh your cylinder. They are available for few thousand Rupees. This is worth the buy, considering the huge consumption you do it commercially. You can account for what work you have consumed so much.

• As a domestic consumer, please think of the subsidy we receive, when compared to a commercial consumer. So to reciprocate the same, it is our duty to conserve the usage of LPG cylinder in our kitchen use; so delay & extend the date of refill. The more the days, we take to refill shows our usage efficiency.

•  Kindly remember more than the half the export earnings got by India is spent towards this crude & LPG import bill. Please keep in mind the fossil fuel like crude etc is fast depleting in India and globally. Hence, the thrust idea is to conserve in electricity, petrol, diesel and LPG etc this is the Cheap & Best Energy Source now available in our hand and it is up to us to fully make use of Conservation everywhere.

• Apart from cooking, we have other appliances like mixi, grinder etc and please look into the safety aspects. . Any abnormal heat or sound symptoms of the same from the power point socket, wire, and at the appliance show that the appliance is losing energy first and later will fail. So it is better to act before.

DOMESTIC ENERGY SAVINGS – YOUR STORAGE WATER HEATER

• Check your water heater: If its surface is hot or even warm, some of the energy used is being wasted. Insulator in water heater started conducting heat. Please replace insulation this costs few hundreds only.

• The power line to Electric water heater should be adequate and the earthing at power point is a must. The plug and socket switch should be located away from water splash. The switch should not be hot to touch when switched on for many minutes.

• In general, the ELCB in your house should be checked once in a month by its test button or as recommended by manufacturer. This routine keeps the electrical distribution healthy in your house circuit.

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• To help reduce heat loss, always insulate hot water pipes, especially where they run through unheated areas. Never insulate plastic pipes. Even you find the concealed pipes are not insulated type before. Your finger can sense concealed Hot water line beneath the wall near water heater. This is invisible loss.

• Also, we have to set our Electric storage water heater at a temperature that is 10* plus 37*C our body temperature. 47*C (instead of 60*C now). Warm water is better to health than hot water in long run & 20 % power savings.

• A coating of undissolved salts is usually found on the inside water heater. Even 1 mm millimeter thick coating can reduce the flow of heat to the vessel’s contents. This increases your power consumption by as much as 10%. Every year before putting the heater to heavy daily use, treat the internals with chemicals and scrub it clean.

• One 100 liter Solar Water heater can save 1500 units per house per year. Do you and your family save 1500 units yearly? If so, you have helped to avoid burning 1500 KG of coal to produce your 1500 EB units.

• Hence sitting at your house, you can do charity to others and our nation. Are you doing it? That’s why people say Energy Conservation like Charity begins at home first and is carried to society, on roads and in our place of work. Please have the Will to Serve Nation directly and indirectly.

DOMESTIC ENERGY SAVINGS – YOUR CEILING FAN

• Use fan as first line of defense against summer heat. Ceiling fans, for instance, cost about 30 paisa an hour to operate - much less than air conditioners (Rs10 per hour).

• Heat enters our house or building in the following ways. Through the Terrace 50 %, then come thro doors and windows 30 %, through the walls 15 % and etc. So please think of preventing the solar heat entering thro the terrace. This can be through cost effective non contact Asbestos sheets and many other ways exist to reduce. There are many ways to reduce heat ingress on your open terrace. Please do it first!

• Check the air breeze from the fan is felt on the floor or at the walls and escaping out thro windows. Are we getting blast of air or gentle & smooth air breeze? If air is breezing thro us, it comforts us by evaporative cooling.

•  If air is blasting on us say for whole night, we get up tired next day morning.  It is not good for health to sleep under continuous air blast from fan for long hours.

• Use Step type switching (instead of knob type) Electronic fan Regulator and Save 30 % power. The old box type regulator only regulates the air breeze but the fan is consuming full power only.

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• We get two types of ceiling fan in market. Heavy weight types and it consumes around 80 watts.  You lifted the fan head with two hands before, and now you can lift 2 fan heads with one hand. Branded light weight type and it consumes around 50 watts only. The performance is same. Changing the fan is next, but first you see how much more dust weight sits on your fan. Frequently. Once dust seen, clean it early.

• Where you find ceiling fan making heavy engine sounds, it is better to look into its bearings. People are making the old fans efficient by changing the bush inside and put double side new ball bearings.

• The common man distinguishes between the gliding friction and rolling friction. The rolling friction is lower than gliding friction. It is wake up call for industry to know their bearing friction is gliding or rolling and first give attention to the Drive end bearing of motor, as they first face the impact of power of motor say 20 hp motor at 1500 revolutions per minute rotation. After this only, comes the load consumption.

•  The abnormal hot spots, sound etc indicate the inefficiency. Invariably, you find on all your old fan regulators, the white wall above the regulator had gone grey due to resistance type rheostat had failed already. This fan will sweep in one speed only! Whatever position you keep on regulator. Better to replace with Electronic type regulator.

• Now Bureau of Energy Efficiency BEE in Standards and Labeling program has come with Star ratings for consumer appliances like tube light, fridge, ceiling fan, motor, Air conditioner, washing machine, TV, etc. The more the power savings in each machine the more the stars (star from 1 to 5 rating) now as consumer, we can buy efficient machine based on BEE star label rating fixed on the machine.