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Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
(First Edition - Last updated on 11/19/2007)
♦ Category: Waste
IPCC: |
4D2 - Wastewater Treatment and Discharge - Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Discharge |
Sector: |
Industrial : Waste Water Treatment : Industrial Waste Water |
♦ Activity: Production processed - Poultry
♦ Greenhouse gas: Methane ( CH4 )
► Year 1990 —
● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —
Amount: |
2,004 tonnes of CH4 Emitted (42,086 tonnes CO2 Eq.) |
Basis: |
Calculation |
Calculation: |
[Production Processed] * [Wastewater outflow] * [Chemical oxygen demand (COD)] * [Proportion of COD degraded anaerobically] * [COD CH4 emission factor] |
Reference: |
USEPA (2007). Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005. United States Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 430-R-07-002. Chapter 8: Waste. April 15, 2007. Washington DC. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usgginv_archive.html |
● Activity level used in calculations —
● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —
Parameter: |
Chemical oxygen demand (COD) = 4.1 g / l |
Reference: |
USEPA (2007). Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005. United States Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 430-R-07-002. Chapter 8: Waste. April 15, 2007. Washington DC. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usgginv_archive.html |
Parameter: |
COD CH4 emission factor = 0.6 g / g |
Reference: |
USEPA (2007). Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005. United States Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 430-R-07-002. Chapter 8: Waste. April 15, 2007. Washington DC. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usgginv_archive.html |
Parameter: |
Proportion of COD degraded anaerobically = 0.25 |
Reference: |
USEPA (2007). Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005. United States Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 430-R-07-002. Chapter 8: Waste. April 15, 2007. Washington DC. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usgginv_archive.html |
Parameter: |
Wastewater outflow = 0.017 l / g |
Reference: |
USEPA (2007). Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005. United States Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 430-R-07-002. Chapter 8: Waste. April 15, 2007. Washington DC. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usgginv_archive.html |
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: |
0.0105 g of CH4 per g of Poultry 0.22 g of CO2eq. per g of Poultry |