heat from natural gas, by energy

Screening proxy heat from natural gas, industrial furnace, per kWh (Atlas unit proxy), GLO: the inventory of 1 kilowatt hour of its reference product, attributional, cut-off.

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Research outputAn inventory from a research design at the design maturity its process states, not verified plant data: check its calculation maturity and review status before use. Background activities are referenced by name only; no background data is included. All caveats

What it is

Converts fired heat counted in kWh (hda-1 feed:FUEL, the feed heater's absorbed duty) to the background's MJ.

Reference product
1 kilowatt hour of heat from natural gas, by energy
CAS
not available
Code
proxy:heat-natural-gas-kwh
Activity UUID
not available (the library assigns none; use the code)
Database
cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348 (version preview-c3ab348)
Geography
GLO
Time period
not available
Technology
not available
Classification
not available
System model
attributional, cut-off (docs/system-model.md, methodology 1.1.0)

Exchanges per 1 kilowatt hour of heat from natural gas, by energy

As exported: allocated and scaled to the reference product. Provenance: 1 assumed. Pedigree scores (1 best, 5 worst): reliability, completeness, temporal correlation, geographical correlation, further technological correlation.

InputAmountUnitProvenancePedigreeLinked to
proxy:heat-natural-gas-furnace
proxy:heat-natural-gas-furnace
1 kWh = 3.6 MJ. ASSUMED that the dataset's absorbed duty is the background's heat delivered (the furnace efficiency is in the background activity)
3.6megajouleassumednonemarket for heat, district or industrial, natural gas (heat, district or industrial, natural gas, Europe without Switzerland) in your background (default ecoinvent-3.11-cutoff)

Elementary flows

No elementary flows are exported for this activity.

Used by

How good it is

Review
not available
Data quality
not available
Mass and carbon closure
Not available: a screening proxy of lci/mappings.yaml, not a dataset
Change report
Not available: this build has no change report against an earlier release.

KPI benchmark positions

Not available: no benchmarked KPI for this dataset.

How to use it

Downloads

A file with this activity alone is not available: each file above is the whole database, and the line under it says how to find this activity there.

import bw2data as bd
from cheme_as_code_lci import install

bd.projects.set_current("my-project")   # holds your licensed background + biosphere3
install("cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348.xlsx", background="ecoinvent-3.11-cutoff", location="DE")
activity = bd.get_activity(("cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-c3ab348", "proxy:heat-natural-gas-kwh"))

While any exchange of the database has no mapping, install() writes nothing and only lists the unlinked exchanges. So the last line finds no activity until the gaps are mapped: the download section gives the ways to use the database now.

How to cite

heat from natural gas, industrial furnace, per kWh (Atlas unit proxy), ChemE-as-Code Process Atlas LCI database preview-c3ab348, activity proxy:heat-natural-gas-kwh. Cite the Process Atlas paper (in preparation, 2026), by Artur M. Schweidtmann and Jana M. Weber, and the ChemE-as-Code Process Atlas LCI database version preview-c3ab348.

DOI: none yet (the Process Atlas paper is in preparation)

For the data, cite the Process Atlas paper; for the platform that builds and checks it, the ChemE-as-Code paper.

Schweidtmann, A. M. & Weber, J. M. (2026, in preparation). Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title).

BibTeX
@unpublished{schweidtmann_process_atlas,
  author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M. and Weber, Jana M.},
  title = {{Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title)}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://atlas.cheme-as-code.org},
  note = {in preparation}
}

Schweidtmann, A. M. (2026, in preparation). ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for AI-Accelerated Chemical Process Engineering (working title).

BibTeX
@unpublished{schweidtmann_cheme_as_code,
  author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M.},
  title = {{ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for AI-Accelerated Chemical Process Engineering (working title)}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://cheme-as-code.org},
  note = {in preparation}
}