Development of a country-specific CO2 emission factor for domestic anthracite in Korea, 2007-2009.
BACKGROUND
Korea has been making efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including a voluntary commitment to the target of a 30% reduction, based on business-as-usual of the total GHG emission volume, by 2020; 2006 IPCC Guidelines provided default values, applying country-specific emission factors was recommended when estimating national greenhouse gas emissions.


CONCLUSIONS
This study focused on anthracite produced in Korea in order to provide basic data for developing country-specific emission factor. This study has estimated CO(2) emission factors to use worksheet of which five steps consisted according to the fuel analysis method.


CONCLUSIONS
As a result, the average of net colorific value for 3 years (2007∼2009) was 4,519 kcal/kg, and the CO(2) emission factor was calculated to be 111,446 kg/TJ, which is about 11.8% lower than the 2006 IPCC guidelines default value, and about 7.9% higher than the US EPA emission factor.
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-dong Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 143-747, South Korea.
Jeongwoo
J
Lee
Jinsu
J
Kim
Seungjin
S
Kim
Gikyo
G
Im
Seehyung
S
Lee
Eui-Chan
EC
Jeon
D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000737:chemistry*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D003031:Coal; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011210:Power Plants; D011786:Quality Control; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D056910:Republic of Korea; D013997:Time Factors
D000393:Air Pollutants; D003031:Coal; D002245:Carbon Dioxide