EPA Stationary combustion of petroleum derived fuels

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The category /business/energy/stationaryCombustion/epa/petroleum contains data on the emissions associated with the burning of petroleum-derived fuels (e.g. distillate and residual fuels, liquefied petroleum fuels, kerosene), sourced from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders initiative.

To use this category, select the type of petroleum product using the type and subtype drill choices. Next specify the quantity of fuel consumed using either the energyConsumed or volume profile item values.

Emissions of CH4 and N2O vary according to the specific burning context under consideration. Users can specify the burning context using the burningContext profile item value with one of the following valid parameters;

  • residential
  • commercial
  • industry
  • electricity generation
If no burning context is explicitly specified the industry context is assumed by default. Discover retrieves the appropriate emissions factors from the associated EPA dataset for CH4 and N2O emissions.

Four quantities are returned, as follows:

  • CO2: CO2 emissions
  • CH4: CH4 (methane) emissions
  • N2O: N2O (nitrous oxide) emissions
  • CO2e: CO2e emissions (all three gases, converted using these global warming potential)
The individual quantities for CH4 and N2O represent absolute quantities rather than CO2e quantities.

See here for information on using British thermal units (Btu's) with the Discover platform.

UIDLabel
C91DM7TTYG6B distillate fuel oil, no. 1
RMR9V1RSW5S2 distillate fuel oil, no. 2
XYTX58OONFDE distillate fuel oil, no. 4
BOLV4ET9C5T4 kerosene
JRBS1LZ5CQ4V lpg (average mix)
63OH9E0SS2CA lpg components, ethane
S1QMPZIAJK1L lpg components, isobutane
8T5IHD8TTSWU lpg components, n-butane
YTFN9EP84RXK lpg components, propane
NX7V9B5CCXDN petroleum coke
13T4HKB4K60F residual fuel oil, no. 5
N7TOTRB20R83 residual fuel oil, no. 6
Context of burning (e.g. 'residential' 'electricity')
Quantity of energy consumed
Volume of fuel consumed
Name: EPA_Stationary_combustion_of_petroleum_derived_fuels
Provenance: US EPA/Climate Leaders
Parent Category: EPA stationary combustion
Full path: /business/energy/stationaryCombustion/epa/petroleum
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