Greenhouse gas type

CLEM.Resources.GreenhouseGasType

A type of greenhouse gas for storing and tracking emissions.

This component represents an individual greenhouse gas to be tracked or used in the simulation. You could have two Greenhouse gas types for the same gas if for example one was to track emissions and the other was a store for fuel as would be possible with Methane, as it is unlikely that you can capture all the emissions being generated.

Global warming potential

Not all greenhouse gases have the same effect on global warming. The Global warming potential is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere. It compares the amount of heat trapped by this greenhouse gas compared to a similar mass of carbon dioxide. This allows us to convert and present all gases as carbon dioxide equivalents.

To present each greenhouse gas type in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), you will need to add a Resource units converter below the GreenhouseGasType in the Simulation tree with the factor set to the global warming potential of the gas. It is not critical what you name this converter (e.g. CO2e), but ensure that all greenhouse gases have the same named converter for reporting (CO2 would have a global warming of 1). This will automatically allow Resource ledger reports to also report CO2e.

The following parameters are associated with this resource

The amount of gas in the store at the start of the simulation (kg)

The following components will provide more details for this resource type

Resource pricing components can be added to this resource type to provide pricing and purchase unit details.

A Resource units converter component can be added to this Resource Type to provide additional units for reporting.

See also