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Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
(First Edition - Last updated on 11/19/2007)
♦ Category: Energy
IPCC: |
1A2m - Fuel Combustion Activities - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Non-specified Industry. |
Sector: |
Industrial : Not Specified |
♦ Activity: Fuel combustion - Wood (wet)
♦ Greenhouse gas: Nitrous oxide ( N2O )
► Year 1990 —
● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —
Amount: |
261.20 tonnes of N2O Emitted (80,972 tonnes CO2 Eq.) |
Basis: |
Calculation |
Calculation: |
[Fuel combustion] * [Heat content] * [Fuel N2O emission] |
Reference: |
IPCC (1997). Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Revised Guidelines). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Published: IGES, Japan. http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gl/invs1.htm |
● Activity level used in calculations —
● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —
Parameter: |
Fuel N2O emission = 4.000E-06 g / btu |
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: Energy. http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/pdf/2_Volume2/V2_2_Ch2_Stationary_Combustion.pdf |
Parameter: |
Heat content = 8,000,000 btu / ton |
Reference: |
EIA (2007). Energy Information Administration. Form EIA-906 Database: Monthly Utility Power Plant Database. CA Air Resources Board staff used the average value (rounded to 1 significant digit) of values for Utility Power Plant Wood. Available online at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/page/eia906u.html |
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: |
32 g of N2O per ton of Wood (wet) 9,920 g (i.e. 9.92 kg) of CO2eq. per ton of Wood (wet) |