Historical anthropogenic emissions of carbon monoxide, 1850 - 2000

carbon monoxide;emission inventory;technology

Liu, Liang ; Bond ; Tami C.

关键词: carbon monoxide;    emission inventory;    technology;   

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美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

We present a bottom-up emission inventory of carbon monoxide (CO) from fossil fueland biofuel combustion from 1850 to 2000. We reconstruct fuel consumption data of brick andcement industry, as well as production data of iron and steel industry. We develop technologydivisions for the four industries and also add several new technologies in the past for mobilesources. We collect emission factors of all fuel and technology combinations through extensiveliterature review, and apply them to the activity data to build the historical emission inventory.CO emissions increased almost linearly until 1950, totaling about 84 Tg in 1850, 128 Tgin 1900, and 209 Tg in 1950. Residential biofuel combustion has been the dominant sourceduring that period. After 1950, there is a rapid increase of CO emissions due to gasoline vehicleemissions. Emissions of CO peaked in 1975 with 433 Tg, and then decreased to 360 Tg in 2000.The decline is mainly due to reduced vehicle emissions in the United States and Europe after aseries of vehicle emission standards were implemented. Residential and vehicle sectors togethermake up more than 78% of the total CO emissions during the entire period. The contribution tototal emissions from brick, cement, iron and steel industry increased from around 3% in 1850 to15% in 2000. Previous work suggests a slight decrease in CO emissions from 1990 to 2000. Ourwork indicates an emission decline since the 1970s, mainly because of implementation of vehiclestandards at that time. Our result is in line with the recent CO concentration trend measured inGreenland firn air.