Last reviewed on February 25, 2013 at 15:55

Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory (5th Edition - Last updated on 02/19/2013)

♦ Category: Energy

IPCC:	1A1b - Fuel Combustion Activities - Energy Industries - Petroleum Refining
Sector:	Industrial : Petroleum Refining

♦ Activity: Fuel combustion - Petroleum coke

Previous year

Amount:	6.26 tonnes of N2O Emitted (1,941 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:	Fuel combustion = 157,787 ton of Petroleum coke
Basis:	Data
Reference:	Schremp, G. (2008). Personal communication (data from the Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act [PIIRA] M-13 Survey Form) between Larry Hunsaker of the CA Air Resources Board and Gordon Schremp of the California Energy Commission. Summer 2008.

Parameter:	Fuel N2O emission = 1.600E-06 g / btu
Reference:	USEPA (2012). Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Regulation http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/
Parameter:	Heat content = 24,800,000 btu / ton
Reference:	USEPA (2012). Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Regulation http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/
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.

Amount:

39.7 g of N2O per ton of Petroleum coke
12,301 g (i.e. 12.3 kg) of CO2eq. per ton of Petroleum coke