CO2 Emission from Vegetable Oil plants Using IPCC Guideline 2006: Iran’s Experience

Abstract

Vegetable oil plants are one of the most important energy consumer industries and Iranian vegetable oil plants don’t have a suitable energy saving. In order to estimate the amount of greenhouse gasses emission of vegetable oil plants of Iran, calculations have been done by Tier l method based on IPCC guideline (2006) and a designed software usage. This method is based on emission factors. Total emission of CO2 from vegetable oil refinery plants and vegetable oil extraction plants for 5 years (2005-2009) is respectively estimated to be about 2195.3 Gg and 488.1 Gg. It is necessary to mention that CO2 emission trend in the studied period is not the same, which shows that energy saving management is not the same in different years. Therefore it is essential to provide the energy management program for vegetable oil plants in Iran.