Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152
Gas boiler, SE, 2000
Sweden · Useful heat, full life cycle · Any year
Value per kWh, net calorific value
0.258kgCO₂e/kWh
Net calorific value · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventoriesOne value, for any year
ProBas sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2000
- Region
- Sweden SE
- Boundary
- Useful heat, full life cycle
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · ProBas terms
Where 0.258 comes from
ProBas prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 1 + Scope 2 + Scope 3, categories 2 and 3 0.258
This one figure covers all four together; no split between them is given.
You burn the fuel, so its combustion is your Scope 1.
The plant and equipment behind your fuel are capital goods: Scope 3, category 2.
Supplying the fuel is Scope 3, category 3 for whoever burns it.
The factor, standardised
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Fuels › Gaseous fossil fuels · Sweden · per kWh · Average
Useful heat, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6
- BoundaryUseful heat, full life cycleFull life-cycle emissions of one kWh of useful heat delivered by a heating system: extraction and delivery of the fuel or electricity the system takes in, its combustion or conversion in the boiler, stove or heat pump, and the manufacture of the heating system itself amortized over its lifetime heat output. Learn more
- Useful heat, full life cycle
- Fuel supply, fuel combustion and capital goods
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
- Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ProBas's AR5 figure of 0.258 kgCO₂e/kWh
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic methane, land-use change and biogenic CO₂; excl. biogenic CO₂ counts biogenic methane but not the other two; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Split by gas
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of one kilowatt-hour of this fuel, from the well to your flame. ProBas also counts its share of the plant and equipment.
Well-to-tank
Extraction
Getting the fuel out of the ground
Processing
Treating it to the quality it is sold at
Transport
Moving it to your site
Your meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
Burning it
In your boiler, furnace or engine: CO₂, with a little CH₄ and N₂O
= 0.258 per kWh
Gases
Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂Biogenic CO₂ and land-use change are left out; fossil CO₂, the other greenhouse gases and methane from biogenic sources are counted. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Fossil CO₂0.25398.1%
- Methane (CH₄)0.003521.4%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.001410.5%
Σ 0.253 + 0.00352 + 0.00141 = 0.25781, which ProBas rounds to 0.258.
Also printed, as zero: sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆).
Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.
From ProBas's record to a comparable factor
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About this factor
From ProBas
Translated from GermanNatural gas boiler for process heat in Sweden per #1, here without auxiliary energy and upstream material inputs, since the boiler is used as an auxiliary energy process in industrial plants.
Load factor: 2500h/a
Fuel/input: Fossil fuels, gases
Firm capacity: 100%
Year: 2000
Lifetime: 15a
Capacity: 10MW
Efficiency: 85%
Product: Heat, processShow ProBas's original (German)
Erdgas-Kessel in für Prozesswärme in Schweden nach #1, hier ohne Hilfsenergie- und Materialvorleistungen, da Kessel als Hilfsenergieprozess in industriellen Anlagen eingesetzt wird.
Auslastung: 2500h/a
Brenn-/Einsatzstoff: Brennstoffe-fossil-Gase
gesicherte Leistung: 100%
Jahr: 2000
Lebensdauer: 15a
Leistung: 10MW
Nutzungsgrad: 85%
Produkt: Wärme - ProzessSource and licence
- Publisher
- Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
- Library
- ProBas v02.44.152
- Record
- 8f9313de-b4ff-428b-93d5-db951320dc1d
- Published
- 16 September 2020
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ProBas, Umweltbundesamt. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/probas/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-probas-gaskesselse2000-se-kwh-useful_heat_lifecycle-34bcc020/?v=efv1-84ba15388a22893f7326eada019727a9
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