Last reviewed on February 25, 2013 at 15:56
Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
(5th Edition - Last updated on 02/19/2013)
♦ Category: Energy
| IPCC: |
1A2e - Fuel Combustion Activities - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Food Processing, Beverages and Tobacco |
| Sector: |
Industrial : Manufacturing : Food Products : Food Processing |
♦ Activity: Fuel combustion - Natural gas
♦ Greenhouse gas: Nitrous oxide ( N2O )
► Year 2000 —
● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —
| Amount: |
6.10 tonnes of N2O Emitted (1,891 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 = 63,768,903,028 scf of Natural gas |
| Basis: |
Data |
| Reference: |
Gough, A. (2011). Personal communication (data from the CEC's Quarterly Fuels and Energy Report) between Larry Hunsaker of the CA Air Resources Board and Andrea Gough of the California Energy Commission. June 2011. |
● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —
| Parameter: |
Fuel N2O emission = 1.000E-07 g / btu |
| Reference: |
USEPA (2012). Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Regulation http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ |
| Parameter: |
Heat content = 956 btu / scf |
| Reference: |
EIA (2011). Energy Information Administration. State Energy Consumption, Price, and Expenditure Estimates (SEDS). Available online at: http://www.eia.gov/beta/state/seds/?sid=CA |
| 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: |
9.563E-05 g of N2O per scf of Natural gas
0.0296 g of CO2eq. per scf of Natural gas |
