Greenhouse gas emissions from municipal wastewater treatment facilities in China from 2006 to 2019

Dan Wang; Weili Ye; Guangxue Wu; Ruoqi Li; Yuru Guan; Wei Zhang; Junxia Wang; Yuli Shan; Klaus Hubacek

doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01439-7

Greenhouse gas emissions from municipal wastewater treatment facilities in China from 2006 to 2019

Dan Wang, Weili Ye, Guangxue Wu, Ruoqi Li, Yuru Guan, Wei Zhang, Junxia Wang, Yuli Shan, Klaus Hubacek

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Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) alleviate water pollution but also induce resource consumption and environmental impacts especially greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Mitigating GHG emissions of WWTPs can contribute to achieving carbon neutrality in China. But there is still a lack of a high-resolution and time-series GHG emission inventories of WWTPs in China. In this study, we construct a firm-level emission inventory of WWTPs for CH₄, N₂O and CO₂ emissions from different wastewater treatment processes, energy consumption and effluent discharge for the time-period from 2006 to 2019. We aim to develop a transparent, verifiable and comparable WWTP GHG emission inventory to support GHG mitigation of WWTPs in China.

Original language	English
Article number	317
Journal	Scientific data
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01439-7
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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