search

USEPA / ElectricityLCI

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
24 stars 10 forks source link

Should PC link to petcoke UP? #223

Open dt-woods opened 6 months ago

dt-woods commented 6 months ago

https://github.com/USEPA/ElectricityLCI/blob/2232c41f2cb4fd333ad59c8710aa55906e6a7ed3/electricitylci/petroleum_upstream.py#L50

m-jamieson commented 5 months ago

Technically yes - RFO is chosen here as a proxy for petcoke because we don't have an explicit inventory for petcoke. For transparency this is likely on overestimation of the emissions expected from petcoke because it is essentially a waste product with relatively little hydrogen content (the basis for NETL allocation of emissions at the refinery).

dt-woods commented 5 months ago

Okay. I was under the impression that a Petcoke UP was available under the published petroleum baseline. I saw the comment in the code that earmarked it for an upgrade. I'll keep it in there for now.