Life Cycle Thinking-Based Carbon Emission Accounting for In-situ Oil Shale Mining
This paper highlights the issues with the oil shale industry's carbon emission accounting based on the actual production of oil shale in-situ mining.It does this by using the drilling,fracturing,heating,oil and gas collection and processing,transportation to refineries,and treatment of wastewater,waste,and domestic waste during the mining process as the boundary of carbon emission accounting,which allows for the identification of the carbon emission source.Thus,the emission factors are ascertained and the carbon emission accounting model is developed.This paper also computes,using an accounting model,the carbon emissions for a pilot oil shale in-situ mining demonstration base.The findings indicate that,of all the links,the heating link generates the largest amount of emissions—29.44%—and that the largest source of emissions overall is electricity use.Lastly,specific steps to reduce emissions are suggested.