Xinjiang Keping has achieved a historic breakthrough in the transformation of urban heating coal to electricity
"After our county adopts a green and low-carbon heating method, it is much more comfortable in winter, the house is warm, the sky is blue, and everywhere is clean. Recently, Adili Tursun, a resident of the first phase of the happy community in Keping Town, Keping County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said.
The green and low-carbon heating method mentioned by Adili is that Keping County will gradually eliminate traditional coal-fired boilers from 2020 and adopt electric boilers or electrode boilers for heating. In 2022, Keping County will introduce a semiconductor thermal storage boiler from Northeast China, an electric boiler with a power of 2,500 kilowatts, which will be installed at the heat source station in the south area of Keping County, with a heating area of 560,000 square meters, and in 2023, Keping County will achieve a historic breakthrough in the transformation of urban heating from coal to electricity, and all urban heating will be clean, electrified, digitalized and standardized.
Huang Kai, Secretary of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Keping County, introduced that the heating area of Keping County is 1.1 million square meters, divided into 6 heating areas, of which the larger ones are the south area and the north area of the city. Compared with the previous coal-fired boilers, electric boilers and electrode boilers are not only green and low-carbon, but also energy-saving, efficient, fine and safe. The six heating areas reduce carbon emissions by 40,700 tons, nitrogen oxide emissions by 68 tons, and volatile organic compounds emissions by 44 tons per year, which is equivalent to planting 2.7 million trees.
"In the past few years, we relied on coal-fired boilers for heating, and if you wear a white shirt to move outdoors, your clothes tend to turn black. Huang Kai said. In recent years, in the process of building a "livable Keping", Keping County has continued to promote the prevention and control of air pollution, strictly implemented the total air pollutant emission control system, and significantly reduced sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.
At the heat source station in the north area of Keping County, the reporter saw that the tall heat storage tank replaced the previous towering chimney, and the boiler room was clean and tidy inside and outside. Zhu Haijun, a boiler worker, sat in front of the intelligent workbench to check the operation of the boiler and piping system, and the heating temperature of each community in the jurisdiction was in full view. "From northern Xinjiang to southern Xinjiang, I have been burning boilers for 6 years, and this is the most advanced boiler I have come into contact with. In our 320,000-square-meter heat source station, only 7 boilermen take turns to work, which is clean and easy. He said.
Zhu Haijun and other boilermakers were busiest from 11 o'clock at night to 9 o'clock the next day, and combined with the time-of-use electricity price policy, they continued to burn the boiler during the lowest electricity price period, and then stored a large amount of inexhaustible heat in the heat storage tank for heating during the day. In the next step, Keping County, which has advantages in the photovoltaic industry, will explore and implement the integration project of photovoltaic and heating, apply clean energy to urban heating, and achieve a new breakthrough in green energy saving.
Nowadays, in the colorful Keping County, the locals are not only proud of the red desert, yellow apricots, white camels, green chamagu, but also the blue sky known as "Keping Blue".
