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EMISSIONS AND COST ESTIMATES FOR GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT ANTHROPOGENIC COMBUSTION SOURCES OF NOX, N2O, CH4, CO AND CO2
Citation:
Piccot, S., J. Buzun, AND C. Frey. EMISSIONS AND COST ESTIMATES FOR GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT ANTHROPOGENIC COMBUSTION SOURCES OF NOX, N2O, CH4, CO AND CO2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/7-90/010 (NTIS PB90-216433), 1990.
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The report discusses the development of emission factors for CO2, CO, CH4, NOx, and N2O for about 80 globally significant combustion sources in seven source categories: utility, industrial, fuel production, transportation, residential, commercial, and kilns/ovens/dryers. ecause of the lack of adequate international data, the emission factors for most sources are based on U.S. performance, cost, and emissions data. ata on CO2, CO, and NOx were available for over 90% of the sources studied; on CH4, for about 80%; and on N2O, for only about 10%. mission factor quality ratings were developed to indicate the overall adequacy of the supporting data. uality ratings ranged from A to E, with A the best. xcept for N2O, the emission factors for the gases covered the quality spectrum from A to E; all of the emission factors for N2O were rated E. valuation of the emission factors for the seven source categories (taking the five gases as an aggregate for each category) showed that the kilns/ovens/dryers category had the lowest overall quality rating; no factors rated better than B. mission factors for fuel production were somewhat better, but generally of lower quality than for the remaining five source categories.