Development of a country-specific CO2 emission factor for domestic anthracite in Korea, 2007–2009

INTRODUCTION Korea has been making efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including a voluntary commitment to the target of a 30% reduction, based on business-as-usual of the total GHG emission volume, by 2020; 2006 IPCC Guidelines provided default values, applying country-specific emission factors was recommended when estimating national greenhouse gas emissions. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION This study focused on anthracite produced in Korea in order to provide basic data for developing country-specific emission factor. This study has estimated CO(2) emission factors to use worksheet of which five steps consisted according to the fuel analysis method. CONCLUSION As a result, the average of net colorific value for 3 years (2007∼2009) was 4,519 kcal/kg, and the CO(2) emission factor was calculated to be 111,446 kg/TJ, which is about 11.8% lower than the 2006 IPCC guidelines default value, and about 7.9% higher than the US EPA emission factor.