ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Greenhouse Gas Emissions by the Chinese Coking Industry
Xiaohua Ge1,2, Liping Chang1, Jin Yuan2, Jianchao Ma3, Xudong Su2, Hongjie Ji2
 
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1College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology,
Taiyuan 030024, PR China
2Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences in Shanxi,
Taiyuan 030009, PR China
3College of Mining Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology,
Taiyuan 030024, PR China
 
 
Submission date: 2015-02-09
 
 
Acceptance date: 2015-12-19
 
 
Publication date: 2016-03-17
 
 
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2016;25(2):593-598
 
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The Chinese coking industry (CCI) is currently facing a great challenge on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our study was set up to assess the GHG emission characteristics of 10 representative coke enterprises and analyse the factors of fuel type, production scale, loading method, oven model, loading rate, etc. The research results showed that fuel gas type, oven model, and loading rate had obvious impacts on the carbon emission intensity of coking plants, while the production scale and the loading method had little effects. The carbon emission intensity of the coking plant using mixed fuel gas was much higher than the plant using coke oven gas as fuel. The carbon emission intensity of the 6.0 m coke oven was 0.7 times higher than that of the 4.3 m coke oven. And the emission intensity of the clean heat recovery coke oven was the highest. An infrequent low loading rate would increase the direct carbon emission intensity signifi cantly. The research results will help the government to compare the emission intensity of the coking industry and make policies about carbon emission intensity reduction.
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