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标题：Assessment of CO₂ Emissions in the Petroleum Refining in Cameroon
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作者：Jean Gaston Tamba ; Donatien Njomo ; Eric Tonye Mbog 等
期刊名称：Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology
电子版ISSN：2249-0256
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：4
出版社：Euresian Publications
摘要：CO₂ has risen to the top of the list of the energy sector's environmental impacts and petroleum refining in particular, as the source of anthropogenic climate change. CO₂ emissions inventory from the petroleum refining sector in Cameroon reported in this article was conducted following the recommendations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); it concerns the unique refinery called the Cameroon national refinery (SONARA). This assessment is based on a bottom-up methodology of Tier 3. The combustibles data are obtained from the SONARA Technical Department during the period 2000-2008. The combustibles emission factors were determined after measurements following the American Society of Testing Materials standards within the SONARA laboratory. Hence, assessment results of CO₂ emissions at the SONARA show about 239 kilotons of CO₂ were rejected into the atmosphere. That is 5.56% the total CO₂ emissions in Cameroon for the year 2008. Moreover, the furnace of the atmospheric unit distillation is the combustion zone that emits the most CO₂. Emissions account for 45% of CO₂ emissions at the SONARA that is an average of 96.3 kilotons. This is the first CO₂ inventory for the petroleum refining category carried out in Cameroon; but we could not include fugitive emissions. However, the guidelines of the UNFCCC on GHG inventories state that countries shall report a national communication of anthropogenic emissions to the Conference of Parties, according to their capacities.
关键词：Assessment; CO2 emissions; petroleum refining; Cameroon