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    Course Name: Mining, Energy and Climate Change

    Course Code: MNO 501

    Numerical (Unit 1)
    1.The average home in India uses electricity of about 11,000
    kWh/yr. What is the electricity-based carbon footprint of the
    average home, in tonnes? Assume 1.5 lbs CO2/kWh.

    There are about 115,000,000 households in Delhi. What is the


    total electricity-based carbon footprint of Delhi (in tonnes)?
    2.A corporate vehicle fleet consumes 90,000 gallons of LNG each
    year. How many tonnes of greenhouse gases is the fleet
    responsible for each year?

    One thousand cubic feet (MCF) = 12.1 gallons of LNG

    Emission Factor for LNG = 0.12 lbs/cubic feet


    3. A company uses fuel purchase records to determine its
    scope I emissions. Last Year, the company purchased 714
    gallons of gasoline, 212 gallons of diesel fuel, and 3 million
    cubic feet of natural gas. What were the company’s scope 1
    emissions this year?

    Emission factor for Gasoline = 19.37 lbs CO2/gallon


    Emission factor for Diesel = 22.23 lbs CO2/gallon
    mission factor for Natural Gas = 0.12 lbs CO2/Cubic Foot
    4. A water treatment plant consumes one-kilowatt hour of
    electricity for every 900 gallons of water it treats. The plant gets
    its electricity from a coal-fired power plant with an emission
    factor of 1500 lbs CO2/MWh. If the facility treats 3.4 million
    gallons of water each month, how many tonnes of CO2 does it
    emit each year?
    5. A power plant’s generation mix consists of coal (electric utility
    coal) and natural gas. Every day the plant combusts 1600 tonne
    of coal and 27,500 Mcf (thousand cubic feet) of natural gas. How
    many tonnes of carbon dioxide does the plant emit in one year?

     Emission factor for coal = 4728.82 lbs CO2/tonne


     Emission factor for natural gas = 0.12 lbs CO2/cubic feet
    6. The distance between Atlanta airport and Narita airport in
    Tokyo, Japan is 6876 miles. A Boeing 747 is estimated to
    consume around 5 gallons per mile on a long-haul flight. The
    emission coefficient for jet fuel is 9644 gCO2/gal. what is the
    carbon footprint for this trip?
    7. A 66-acre lined cell landfill contains 2.4 million tons of waste. At
    its current level, the landfill emits 2000 metric tons of CO2 and 2000
    metric tons of methane per year, with traces of other compounds.
    Looking only at the methane and CO2 emissions, what are the total
    emissions per year in terms of CO2e? in this example, assume
    methane has a GWP of 21.

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