The common fuels for home heating are natural gas and fuel oil. Natural gas is measured in therms, a unit of heat being the energy equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet of natural gas. Oil is measured on the number of gallons used per day. * Natural Gas – Find the monthly use * Fuel Oil – Monthly use is based on tank fill-up amount. Then convert oil into therms.(1Gallon of Oil equals 1.5 therms) 2) What is your monthly natural gas or oil usage for heating from your bill?
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Heating and Air Conditioning
1) The common fuels for home heating are natural gas and fuel oil. Natural gas is measured in therms, a unit of heat being the energy equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet of natural gas. Oil is measured on the number of gallons used per day.
* Natural Gas – Find the monthly use
* Fuel Oil – Monthly use is based on tank fill-up amount. Then convert oil into therms.(1Gallon of Oil equals 1.5 therms)
2) What is your monthly natural gas or oil usage for heating from your bill?: 28 therms
3) Find the daily use by:
Divide by 30 days (standard for a month) Daily amount: 0.93 therms
4) Your personal share is obtained by dividing the daily amount (above) by the number of people
(house members) in the household.
Personal share: 0.23 therms
5) Add this estimated amount of 0.4 therms for heat at work, office or QCC to obtain the total
heating amount.
personal share + 0.4 therms = 0.63 therms
v What is the Crude Oil equivalent?
*With therms, 1 gallon of crude oil produces 1.39 therms. A Divide your answer 5) into crude oil
conversion factor, 1.39 therms, to obtain the crude oil equivalent.
crude oil equivalent = 0.45 gallon
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