Matrix-based model of the carbon footprint analysis for thermal power generation in China
With the increasing seriousness of climate change problem, carbon footprint has become a very useful method to measure carbon emissions and has been widely accepted. In modern industry, electricity is almost consumed in all industry processes, and electricity is the first footprint of most products. As carbon emissions is always measured by theoretical estimation from input inventory but not experimental data, the input inventory of electricity generation becomes very important in carbon footprint analysis. Electricity generation is a very complex process, where all input items inter-dependant on each other and the whole system is an infinite cycle net. But in the traditional calculation model of input inventory, the interaction effect of production system is usually neglected. The major work of this study is to make clear the carbon emissions of provision 1kWh thermal power generation to consumers in China in 2006, since thermal power generation takes the most proportion of Chinese electricity. This study used a matrix-based model which includes interaction effect of the system to calculate the input inventory of electricity generation, and then the carbon emissions of thermal electricity generation in China in 2006 can be calculated. The final result of this paper can be used in carbon footprint, Life Cycle Assessment or some other related fields.
Carbon footprint Thermal power generation Matrix
Boxue SUN Xianzheng GONG Yu LIU Wenjuan Chen Zhihong WANG
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology100 ping le yuan, Chaoy School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology 100 ping le yuan, Chao
国际会议
11th IUMRS International Conference in Asia(第十一届国际材联亚洲材料大会 IUMRS-ICA 2010)
青岛
英文
230-238
2010-09-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）