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 - Residual fuel oil
♦ Greenhouse gas: Methane ( CH4 )
► Year 2000 —
● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —
| Amount: |
7.220E-02 tonne of CH4 Emitted (1.52 tonne CO2 Eq.) |
| Basis: |
Calculation |
| Calculation: |
[Fuel combustion] * [Heat content] * [Fuel CH4 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 = 160,440 gal of Residual fuel oil |
| 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. |
● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —
| Parameter: |
Fuel CH4 emission = 3.000E-06 g / btu |
| Reference: |
ARB (2012). Summary of 2008, 2009 and 2010 data from California's Greenhouse Gas Mandatory Reporting Program. Reported emissions are available at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/reporting/ghg-rep/ghg-rep.htm |
| Parameter: |
Heat content = 150,000 btu / gal |
| Reference: |
USEPA (2012). Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Regulation http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ |
| Constant: |
Global warming potential of CH4 = 21 |
| 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: |
0.45 g of CH4 per gal of Residual fuel oil
9.45 g of CO2eq. per gal of Residual fuel oil |
