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PFC-218 - C3F8

World · Fugitive releases · Any year

Each kilogram of C3F8 released to the air counts as 9,290 kg CO₂e, its 100-year warming potential under IPCC AR6.

Value for any year

9,290kgCO₂e/kg

Fugitive releases · GWP100 · IPCC AR6

One value, for any year

IPCC sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2021

Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specific
Region
World GLOBAL
Boundary
Fugitive releases
Data quality
HighRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · IPCC terms

Where 9,290 comes from

Published as one number

IPCC prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up and no split by gas. For a gas, the figure is its warming potential: one kilogram released warms like 9,290 kg of CO₂ over 100 years.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 9,290

Gas that escapes from equipment you run is a direct emission, so it is your Scope 1.

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Direct emissions › Fugitive emissions and refrigerants · World · per kg · Average

Fugitive releases · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Fugitive releases
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
As printed by IPCC
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Not split by gas; CO₂e only

High quality · Open licence · Any year

Every horizon, every IPCC report

A warming potential rests on two choices: how many years of warming are counted, and which IPCC assessment report supplies the numbers. IPCC publishes 3 of these 9 cells; the other 6 read “Not published by IPCC”.

This factor9,290 AR6, GWP100
Cells published for C3F83 of 9 AR6 only
kgCO₂e per kg of C3F8 released, by horizon and IPCC report. Pick a cell to read it.
AR4IPCC, 2007AR5IPCC, 2013AR6IPCC, 2021
GWP2020 years
Not published by IPCC
Not published by IPCC
GWP100100 years
Not published by IPCC
Not published by IPCC
GWP500500 years
Not published by IPCC
Not published by IPCC

Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specificNot published by IPCC

R218: every publisher's GWP, side by side

What this number covers

One step: the gas getting out. Nothing before or after it is counted.

  1. Released to the air

    Gas escaping from equipment, a process or a container, counted by the mass that gets out.

    Included1 kg

  2. Warming over 100 years

    Heat trapped by that kilogram, compared with 1 kg of CO₂: its GWP100 from the IPCC's sixth report.

    Included× 9,290

  3. Your record

    1 kg of gas released. The factor is per kilogram that escapes, not per kilogram held.

    = 9,290

Outside this boundary

  • Making the gas
  • Burning fuel

Producing the gas is a different factor, reported when you buy it (Scope 3, category 1). Fuel burned on site has factors of its own.

A warming potential, not a measurement

Nobody measured this number at a site. It is the warming caused by 1 kg of the gas over 100 years, divided by the warming of 1 kg of CO₂. It is the same wherever the gas escapes.

kg released × 9,290 = kg CO₂e

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Source and licence

Publisher
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Library
IPCC AR6 WG1 2021
Published
9 August 2021
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Credit it with this lineForster, P., T. Storelvmo, K. Armour, W. Collins, J.-L. Dufresne, D. Frame, D.J. Lunt, T. Mauritsen, M.D. Palmer, M. Watanabe, M. Wild and H. Zhang, 2021: The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.009.
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Cite this factor

Forster, P., T. Storelvmo, K. Armour, W. Collins, J.-L. Dufresne, D. Frame, D.J. Lunt, T. Mauritsen, M.D. Palmer, M. Watanabe, M. Wild and H. Zhang, 2021: The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.009. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/ipcc/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-ipcc-pfc218_c3f8-global-kg-fugitive-98bd9646/?v=efv1-ab8fdb268c4a8162ad39e24aae6baeaa

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