Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Inventory of Natural Gas Extraction, Delivery and Electricity Production [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 662 Technology of explosives, fuels, related products
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2011
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 96 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 268450
• Chủ đề: 1. 01 coal, lignite, and peat; 2. 03 natural gas; 3. 54 environmental sciences; 4. Lca; 5. Life cycle analysis

Tóm tắt

This report details the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from six domestic sources of natural gas and a national average mix for extraction and delivery to a large end user. The report also compares the use of natural gas for power production to coal-fired power production based on the delivery of 1 MWh of electricity to the end user. Results demonstrate that natural gas-fired baseload power production has life cycle GHG emissions 42 to 53 percent lower than those for coal-fired baseload electricity, after accounting for a wide range of variability and compared across different assumptions of climate impact timing.