eprintid: 10136973 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/13/69/73 datestamp: 2021-10-26 12:36:45 lastmod: 2022-04-21 06:10:22 status_changed: 2021-10-26 12:36:45 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Lei, T creators_name: Guan, D creators_name: Shan, Y creators_name: Zheng, B creators_name: Liang, X creators_name: Meng, J creators_name: Zhang, Q creators_name: Tao, S title: Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F37 keywords: CO2 emission; soil refinery; climate change; oil refining; petroleum industry; carbon reduction note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: Continuous expansion of fossil fuel-based energy infrastructure can be one of the key obstacles in delivering the Paris Agreement goals. The oil refinery is the world's third-largest stationary emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but the historical mapping of the regional-specific refining industry, their CO2 emission patterns, and mitigation potentials remain understudied. This study develops a plant-level, technical-specific, and time-series global refinery CO2 emission inventory, covering 1,056 refineries from 2000 to 2018. The CO2 emissions of the refinery industry were about 1.3 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2018, representing 4% of the total. If current technical specifications continue, the global refineries will cumulatively emit 16.5 Gt of CO2 during 2020–2030. The refineries vary in operation age, refining configuration structure, and geographical location, leading to the demand for specific mitigation strategies, such as improving refinery efficiency and upgrading heavy oil processing technologies, which could potentially reduce global cumulative emissions by 10% during 2020–2030. date: 2021-08-20 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier BV official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.07.009 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1884874 doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.07.009 lyricists_name: Guan, Dabo lyricists_id: DGUAN87 actors_name: Barczynska, Patrycja actors_id: PBARC91 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: One Earth volume: 4 number: 8 pagerange: 1114-1126 citation: Lei, T; Guan, D; Shan, Y; Zheng, B; Liang, X; Meng, J; Zhang, Q; Lei, T; Guan, D; Shan, Y; Zheng, B; Liang, X; Meng, J; Zhang, Q; Tao, S; - view fewer <#> (2021) Adaptive CO2 emissions mitigation strategies of global oil refineries in all age groups. One Earth , 4 (8) pp. 1114-1126. 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.07.009 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.07.009>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136973/1/Guan_Adaptive%20CO2%20emissions%20mitigation%20strategies%20of%20global%20oil%20refineries%20in%20all%20age%20groups.pdf