Last reviewed on February 25, 2013 at 15:54
Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
(5th Edition - Last updated on 02/19/2013)
♦ Category: Energy
| IPCC: |
1A1ai - Fuel Combustion Activities - Energy Industries - Main Activity Electricity and Heat Production - Electricity Generation |
| Sector: |
Electricity Generation (In State) : Merchant Owned |
♦ Activity: Fuel combustion - Biomass
♦ Greenhouse gas: Nitrous oxide ( N2O )
► Year 2000 —
● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —
| Amount: |
165.80 tonnes of N2O Emitted (51,399 tonnes CO2 Eq.) |
| Basis: |
Calculation |
| Calculation: |
[Fuel combustion] * [Heat content] * [Fuel N2O emission] |
| Reference: |
IPCC (2006). 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme, Eggleston H.S., Buendia L., Miwa K., Ngara T., and Tanabe K. (eds). Volume 2, Chapter 2: Stationary Combustion. Published: IGES, Japan. http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/pdf/2_Volume2/V2_2_Ch2_Stationary_Combustion.pdf |
● Activity level used in calculations —
| Activity: |
Fuel combustion = 2,953,190 ton of Biomass |
| Basis: |
Data |
| Reference: |
Schnapp, R. (2008). Personal communication (data submittal) between Larry Hunsaker of CA Air Resources Board and Robert Schnapp of the Energy Information Administration. Summer 2008. |
● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —
| Parameter: |
Fuel N2O emission = 4.200E-06 g / btu |
| Reference: |
USEPA (2012). Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Regulation http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ |
| Parameter: |
Heat content = 13,367,575 btu / ton |
| Reference: |
Schnapp, R. (2008). Personal communication (data submittal) between Larry Hunsaker of CA Air Resources Board and Robert Schnapp of the Energy Information Administration. Summer 2008. |
| Constant: |
Global warming potential of N2O = 310 |
| Reference: |
IPCC (1996). Second Assessment Report. Climate Change 1995: WG I - The Science of Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B.A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell (eds.); Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, U.K. |
● Greenhouse gas emitted per unit activity —
| Amount: |
56.1 g of N2O per ton of Biomass
17,405 g (i.e. 17.4 kg) of CO2eq. per ton of Biomass |
