Payloader and GHG Emission - An Attempt to Derive Empirical Relation for Emission Factor
Journal Title: Journal of Environmental and Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
This research paper provides an attempt to derive empirical relation for emission factor for Front End Payloader machines (FEL) being used to load coal at coal mining complexes from coal face/stock yards over dumper, belt or other hauling equipment etc. The findings are of the recent field study for the mining activities from 2013-2016. We successfully sampled 43 number of equipment, with 1188 number of data sets in 9 nos. of mining complexes of a subsidiary of major coal producing company, situated in different districts of Jharkhand, India. These 43 equipments under study have loaded 16.97 million tons of coal and consumed 1.8 x 104 Kiloliters of HSD & 358 Kiloliters of lubricants during the study period. Emission Factors (EF) for the equipment was derived from the data sets, which are in consistent with the results. The emission factor for Front End Pay loader was found to be 2.93 kg/Te, 176.47 kg/hr based on coal production in Tones and working hour respectively. This article also covers the sector wise total GHG emission of the study area. During the study period it was found that 0.5 Lakh tons of CO2e have been emitted. This study will help the coalmines manager in reducing carbon emissions along with innovations in all the dimensions of sustainability.
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Kumar M
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