Abstract
The objective of the paper is to define CO2 intensity for Estonian oil shale used for energy generation. Life cycle analysis (LCA) is selected as a modelling tool to reach the objective. The model analysis energy requirements and CO2 emissions are associated with mining and transportation of shale rocks and production of shale oil. Since the oil shale retorting process works as a 100% self-compensation energy technology (heat and gas derived from retorting of oil shale are reused within the on-going and next retorting), the paper lays emphasis on analysis of the co-products life cycle in elimination of CO2 emissions. Preliminary results of the research show that life cycle CO2 emission factors of oil shale processing mainly depend on the technology used for production of final raw products as shale oil, semi-coke gas and generator gas. Also, boundaries of the researched system must be taken into account due to avoided emissions from co-products production instead of using universal CO2 emission factors and assumptions. Future work will be focused on 1) material based life cycle analysis to investigate whether the energy produced from oil shale resources can compete with other fuels in terms of life cycle emissions, and 2) LCA impact assessment of the system.
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