Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Building Electrification and The Potential for Carbon Storage in Trees at Dhurakij Pundit University
Keywords:
carbon neutrality, carbon stock, carbon sequestration, energy managementAbstract
Global warming is a significant worldwide environmental issue that receives attention from many countries. This research aims to investigate the carbon dioxide emissions from using electrical energy in buildings and the capacity for carbon storage in mature trees at Dhurakij Pundit University. The study divided the area according to electrical energy use into three areas using electrical energy use data for 2565. The total electrical energy consumption is approximately 4,473,852 kWh/year, equivalent to total carbon dioxide emissions of 2,678,047.81 tCO2e/year. It has the highest carbon dioxide emissions. In study area 1, it was equal to 1,191,214 tCO2e/year, accounting for 44.48%, and the lowest in study area 3 was 590,219.60 tCO2e/year, accounting for 22.04% and calculating the amount of carbon stored in trees by collecting data on the circumference of every tree in the study area. To estimate biomass using the allometric equation, find the amount of carbon storage by multiplying the biomass value by the conversion factor, equal to 0.5. The study found that the university area has 1,231 trees, with the most being in Study Area 1, with 746 trees, and the least in Study Area 2, with 64 trees. The total amount of accumulated carbon is 176,364.70 tons/year; the highest is in Study Area 1, equal to 130,401.09 tons/year, accounting for 73.94%, and the least. It is in Study Area 2, equal to 820.76 tons/year, accounting for 0.46%. When comparing the percentage of carbon stored by trees with the amount of carbon dioxide released by electric power, it was found that study area 1 had the highest percentage of carbon storage from trees, accounting for 10.94%.
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