Table 5.  Methane Emissions Factors for Energy Combustion
                     (Metric tons carbon equivalent per trillion Btu)

 

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

Electricity

Stationary Combustion

       

   Coal

3.30

57.59

13.82

3.46

   Residual Fuel

0.00

9.21

16.70

4.03

   Distillate Fuel

28.80

3.46

0.93

0.00

   Natural Gas

5.50

6.60

7.70

0.55

   Liquid Gases

6.64

6.64

7.88

0.00

   Wood

5050.13

16.83

15.32

0.00

         

Mobile Combustion

   Passenger Cars

82.87

     

   Buses

43.02

     

   Motorcycles

1094.15

     

   Light-Duty Trucks

65.45

     

   Other Trucks

22.04

     
Source:  Emissions factors and data sources from Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 1999, DOE/EIA-0573(99), (Washington, DC, October 2000).

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