DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120422
论文题名: Life cycle assessment of petroleum refining process: A case study in China
作者: Liu Y. ; Lu S. ; Yan X. ; Gao S. ; Cui X. ; Cui Z.
刊名: Journal of Cleaner Production
ISSN: 9596526
出版年: 2020
卷: 256 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climate change
; Government management
; Life cycle assessment
; Petroleum refining process
; VOCs emission characteristic
Scopus关键词: Carbon
; Catalytic cracking
; Catalytic reforming
; Climate change
; Cooling water
; Crude oil
; Distillation
; Gasoline
; Greenhouse gases
; Organic chemicals
; Ozone layer
; Petroleum analysis
; Petroleum industry
; Petroleum refineries
; Petroleum transportation
; Structural optimization
; Supply chains
; Sustainable development
; Volatile organic compounds
; Water cooling systems
; Electricity-consumption
; Emission characteristics
; Environmental analysis
; Government management
; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
; Petrochemical industry
; Photochemical oxidants
; Storage tank emissions
; Life cycle
英文摘要: Climate change mainly caused by transportation fuel consumption has attracted global concern. In life cycle environmental burdens generated from transportation fuel production, petroleum refining stage is the hotspot. However, the in-depth environmental analysis of petroleum refining is very limited. China is the second largest petroleum refining country, so it is very essential to break petroleum refining stage into specific unit to analyze how Chinese refinery can be improved in environment performance. To achieve this goal, a systematic life cycle analysis of the environmental burden generated from petroleum refining process was conducted to identify the control emphasis and seek potential improvement measures. Sensitive analysis and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission characteristics were additional discussed to improve the accuracy of results. The significant burdens generated from petroleum refining process were freshwater ecotoxicity and climate change. Crude oil extraction and transport dominated most environmental categories, which indicated that the environmental problem exist in upstream supply chain. Catalytic cracking, feedstock and product handling, catalytic reforming, crude oil distillation, cooling water system and diesel hydrotreating were the major control units due to their direct emissions and electricity consumption. VOCs (e.g., acrolein and chlorofluorocarbons) produced from refinery fugitive emissions were the main substances for refinery to reduce human toxicity, ozone depletion and photochemical oxidant formation influences. 14% of Climate change were derived from organic chemicals emission in this study, which suggested that VOCs-related carbon emission should be involved in current carbon accounting work or greenhouse gases (GHGs) studies on the petroleum refining industry. The identified control emphasis included equipment leaks from core refining units, storage tank emissions control, energy structure optimization and catalysts consumption intensity reduction. Some feasible and useful reduction measures targeted the control emphasis were proposed for policy makers and refinery managers to formulate reduction strategies and improve the sustainability of the petrochemical industry. © 2020 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/158186
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作者单位: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, China; Shandong Provincial Jinan Eco-environment Monitoring Centre, Jinan, China; School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Recommended Citation:
Liu Y.,Lu S.,Yan X.,et al. Life cycle assessment of petroleum refining process: A case study in China[J]. Journal of Cleaner Production,2020-01-01,256