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    • 2016 U.S. Electricity Generation Air Emissions, Hazardous Waste and Steam Emission Factors by Subregion

    Metadata Updated: March 25, 2023

    This dataset contain records factors for emissions and releases of chemicals to air, water and ground, waste generation, from electricity generation, All values are per megawatt-hour (MWh) of eletricity generated at power plants or other generating facilities.

    Subregion is an acronym of a U.S. EPA eGRID subregion. See https://www.epa.gov/egrid

    FlowName, Context, and Unit are defined as they are in the Flow table format specification for the U.S. EPA Standardized Inventories (StEWI) tool. https://github.com/USEPA/standardizedinventories/blob/master/format%20specs/Flow.md FlowName is the name of the chemical, waste, input or product. Chemical (context is air, water or ground) use the nomenclature of the Federal LCA Commons Elementary Flow List. Wastes use the names for waste code descriptions from the 2017 RCRA Biennial Waste Report. There are also "Heat" input and "Steam" co-product output factors. These names and data come from the eGRID 2016 database.

    This dataset is associated with the following publication: Ghosh, T., W.W. Ingwersen, M. Jamieson, T.R. Hawkins, S. Cashman, T. Hottle, A. Carpenter, and K. Richa. Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT. Ecomed Verlagsgesellschaft AG, Landsberg, GERMANY, 28(2): 156-171, (2023).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    References

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-022-02113-1
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990895

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 25, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from EPA ScienceHub

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 25, 2023
    Publisher U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://doi.org/10.23719/1528678
    Data Last Modified 2023-03-16
    Public Access Level public
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    License https://pasteur.epa.gov/license/sciencehub-license-non-epa-generated.html
    Program Code 020:000
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Environmental Protection Agency > U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-022-02113-1, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990895
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