Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation by Life Cycle Assessment Approach in Petrochemical Industry

Emissions of greenhouse gases, as one of the human community concerns, can be accounted for an effective component of economy and politics around world. The petrochemical industry is characterized by the world s largest consumer of energy, which accounts for 10% of energy consumption and 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The objective of this study is to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions of CO2, CH4 and N2O over the life cycle of petrochemical products. The study applies Gate to Gate Life Cycle Assessment as a method to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions. The study estimates the volume of greenhouse gas emissions through considering the life cycles of petrochemical complex, and to this end, the IPCC 2006 software as well as petrochemical emission factors have been used. The empirical findings and calculations reveal that, the total greenhouse gas emissions generated by the combustion process and the production is about 287.722 gig grams of carbon dioxide equivalent.

کلیدواژه ها:

Life Cycle Assessment ، Greenhouse Gas Emissions ، Petrochemical Industry ، Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change