Table 1.
Emission factors used for TWP calculations in this paper
Power Plants | Vehicles | |||||
Natural gas combined cycle* (kg/MWh) | Supercritical pulverized coal† (kg/MWh) | Light-duty CNG car (kg/mmBtuHHV)‡ | Light-duty gasoline car (kg/mmBtuHHV) | Heavy-duty CNG truck (mg/ton-mile) | Heavy-duty diesel truck (mg/ton-mile) | |
Upstream CH4 | 3.1 | 0.65 | 0.51 | 0.1 | 590 | 100 |
Upstream CO2 | 36 | 7 | 9.4 | 15.9 | 10,000 | 15,000 |
In-Use CH4 | 0 | 0 | 0.11 | 0.0056 | 15 | 0 |
In-Use CO2 | 361 | 807 | 53.1 | 70.3 | 80,000 | 85,000 |
Fuel cycle CH4 | 3.1 | 0.65 | 0.62 | 0.11 | 605 | 100 |
Fuel cycle CO2 | 397 | 814 | 62.5 | 86.2 | 90,000 | 100,000 |
*Heat rate = 6,798 Btu/kWh.
†Heat rate = 8,687 Btu/kWh.
‡1 mmBtu = 106 Btu = 1.055 GJ.