Estimation Methodology and Characteristics of Carbon Emissions in Urban WWTPs
Urban wastewater treatment has attracted extensive attention in China's efforts to promote carbon neutrality for the characteristics of consuming a large amount of energy and emitting greenhouse gases.How to systematically and comprehensively quantify the carbon emissions level of urban waste water treatment plants(WWTPs)is an important prerequisite for optimizing operation and management and reducing carbon emission of urban WWTPs.Combined with literature research,taking the operation stage of urban WWTP as the research object,it summarizes the research status of the sources and characteristics of carbon emissions from wastewater treatment,analyzes the principles and characteristics of carbon accounting methods from different sources such as direct carbon emissions and indirect carbon emissions,and explores their application scenarios and limitations.In order to provide reference for the development of new technologies for carbon emission assessment in wastewater treatment,the trend analysis and suggestions for the research and application of carbon emissions estimating methods in waste water treatment are also proposed.