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of state and regional sulfur content data collected by the various local
air pollution agencies.
B. METHOD
The Bureau of Mines fuel oil data are available by state by the
categories listed in the left-hand column of Table 2-3. The categories
required for the study are listed in the right-hand column of Table 2-3
TABLE 2-3
COMPARISON OF REPORTED FUEL OIL USER CATEGORIES AND
REQUIRED USER CATEGORIES
Categories Used by Categories Required
the Bureau of Mines for this Program
1. Heating Oils #1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 1. Residential
2. Distillate Oil and Residual Oil 2. Commercial
Shipments for:
a. industrial use 3. Industrial
b. oil company use 4. Light Duty Vehicle
c. railroad use 5. Heavy Duty Vehicle
d. vessel-bunkering use
e. military use
f. electric utility company use
g. miscellaneous (including on-
highway and off-highway uses
for diesel)
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It was therefore necessary to convert the available state fuel oil data
to the desired categories, before attempting to allocate the oil use to
the various counties. Consequently, the developed methods are discussed
under two separate headings:
(1) Completion of State Data
(2) County Allocation of Fuel Oil
1. Completion of State Data
a. Residential
Various methods were examined to estimate fuel oil consumed
by residential units on a statewide basis. The more sophisticated methods
included variables for which the available data would have to be averaged
by state. It was felt that the accuracy of such methods would be reduced
by the use of the averaged data, and it was therefore decided to use the
EPA method [5] to calculate statewide residential distillate oil consump-
tion, whenever this would prove necessary,* i.e.,
Residential distillate oil (gallons) = [number of housing
units using oil for spaceheating x .18 (gallons/degree-
day/unit) x degree days**] + [number of housing units using
oil for hot water x 250 gallons]
*0nly necessary when not all counties within a state are being processed.
** Degree Days: A measure of the departure of the main daily temperature
from G5°F: one degree day for each degree of departure below the standard
of 65°F during one day.
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The residential category includes only housing units in
structures of less than 20 units [6], and it is therefore accurate to assume
that all residential fuel oil burned is distillate oil.
b. Comercial
For the years for which the Census of Manufactures Special
Report Series on Fuel and Electric Energy Consumed [8] is published the
commercial oil is calculated as follows:
Commercial distillate oil = all distillate oil categories,
except power plants - residential distillate oil - distillate
oil used for manufacturing
Commercial residual oil = all residual oil categories, except
power plants - residual oil used for manufacturing
Otherwise, the calculations are based on Bureau of Mines
data [7] and data derived by Wai den as summarized below:
Commercial distillate oil = [a* x (distillate oil used
for heating - residential distillate oil)] + distillate
oil for military use
Commercial residual oil = [a* x residual oil used for
heating] + residual oil for military use
*a is a commercial fraction based on commercial employment
b is an industrial fraction based on manufacturing employment
a + b = 1
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c. Industrial
For the years for which data are available from the Census
of Manufactures report mentioned above, distillate and residual oil state
totals are taken directly from that publication. Otherwise, the following
calculations are performed:
Industrial distillate oil = [b* x (distillate oil used
for heating - residential distillate oil)] + distillate
oil for industrial use + distillate oil for oil company
use
Industrial residual oil = [b* x residual oil used for
heating] + residual oil for Industrial use + residual
oil for oil company use
d. Heavy Duty Vehicles (HOV)
Heavy duty vehicles are defined as all vehicles weighing
more than 6.000 Ibs gross weight. Four subcategoHes are considered in
these calculations:
HOV,: 6.001 - 10,000 Ibs
HDV2: 10,001 - 20,000 Ibs
HDV3: 20.001 - 26,000 Ibs
HDV4: Greater than 26,000 Ibs
*a is a commercial fraction based on commercial employment
b is an industrial fraction based on manufacturing employment
a + b = 1
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Statewide HDV gasoline use is calculated as follows:
i=4
HDV
gasoline use = [ £ (HDV- x average miles./miles per
1
gallon-j) + (commercial buses x average gallons/bus) +
(school buses x average gallons/bus)] - [diesel and
butane use]
HDV diesel use by state is reported by the Federal Highway Administration [9],
e. Light-Duty Vehicles (LDV)
It is assumed that only a negligible number of light-duty
vehicles use diesel.
LDV gasoline use = total gasoline sales [9] - HDV gasoline
2. County Allocation of Fuel Oil
a. Residential
Countywide use of residential distillate oil is calculated
by means of the formula:
Residential distillate oil use (gallons) = (.01288 x
degree-days + 30.41 x average rooms per housing unit
- 79.54)/.14
This relationship was developed by Maiden for this project by means of a
stepwise regression analysis based on residential gas data obtained from a
number of gas companies throughout the nation (see Appendix A).
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b. Commercial
County-wide distribution of commercial distillate and resi-
dual oil is based on the-following steps:
(1) Calculation of fuel used in each county by hospitals,
hotels, schools, colleges, and laundries, based on correlative relationships
between fuel use and employment developed by Walden (see Appendix B).
(2) Determination of the fractions of this fuel use attri-
butable to distillate and residual oil based on the fuel use patterns in
each state.
(3) Calculation of distillate and residual oil consumed by
housing units using oil in structures of 20 units or more in each county.
It was assumed that units in structures of more than 50 units consumed
residual oil and that all other residential units included under the com-
mercial category consumed distillate oil.
(4) Subtraction of the oil totals for the above six sub-
categories from the state totals for commercial distillate and residual oil
use.
(5) Subtraction of the employment totals for the categories
mentioned under (1) from the respective county and state employment totals.
(6) Allocation of the remaining state fuel oil figures by
means of the adjusted county and state employment figures.
(7) Addition of the oil used by the six subcategories to
the county oil figures obtained in Step 6.
c. Industrial
County-wide distribution of industrial distillate and resi-
dual oil is performed by means of industrial employment figures which have
been adjusted by means of a fuel intensity factor which is industry dependent
(two-digit SIC).
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adjusted industrial employment.
Industrial fuel oil . = - —
county i adjusted industrial employmentj
x industrial fuel oil . . T
state I
d. Heavy-Duty Vehicle (HDV)
County use of diesel by HDV's is obtained by using county
truck registrations [10] as the apportioning factors to be applied to the
state totals.
trucks > 6000 lb-
Diesel HDV = - 1 x diesel HDVcta.Q T
county i trucks > 6QOO 1bi state I
In order to. determine county use of gasoline for HDV's
the following calculation is performed:
(gasoline HDV)county . = J HDV.. x avg. miles j(I)/MPG. (I)
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trucksi
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trucks i
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e. Light-Duty Vehicle (LDV)
The method developed for county allocation of gasoline
used by LDV's is as follows:
(1) If vehicle miles are available by county they are to
be used as the distributive factor in the form:
vehicle miles-
gasoline LDV . . = - x total gasoline,..,...,- T
county i vehicle miles state l
- gasoline
(2) If vehicle mile data by county are not available, the
sum of the registered automobiles and trucks under 6,000 Ib in each county
[10] is adjusted by means of a rural /urban miles per vehicle index and
used as the distributive factor in the form:
LDV. x index.
gasoline LDVcounty . = _J - ! - x total
(LDV, x Index,)
1=1 1 1
- gasoline
where state i consists of n counties.
C. RESULTS FOR 13 SELECTED COUNTIES - 1970 and 1971
Tables 2-4 and 2-5 show the results of the methods summarized above
for 13 selected counties for 1970 and 1971 respectively. In order to obtain
these results, it was necessary to subtract point source fuel oil use from
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subtract I he corresponding point source employment figures from the
employment data for the 13 counties. Thus, the figures in Tables 2-4
and 2-5 are for area sources only.
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industrial residual oil use are summarized in Table 2-8 by two digit SIC,
and are based primarily on summaries made by Wai den from NEDS point source
data.
Table 2-9 shows average sulfur content for distillate and residual
oil used in the selected counties in 1970 and 1971. These figures were
taken from a variety of Bureau of Mines publications, as well as summaries
made by Wai den from NEDS point source data.
These county-wide figures are available for all counties of the
United States and Puerto Rico for 1972 in the form of a computer printout
and NEDS area source punched cards provided to EPA-NADB, Durham, North
Carolina.
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TABLE 2-6
SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS OF FUEL USE FOR RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL
SPACEHEATING - 1970 (BASED ON DEGREE-DAYS)
County
Belknap, N.H.
Franklin, Ma.
Worcester, Ma.
Baltimore, Md.
Palm Beach, Fl .
St. Louis, Mo.
Minnehaha, S.D.
King, Wa.
Galveston, Tx.
Jefferson, Al .
Boulder, Co.
Los Angeles, Ca.
San Diego, Ca.
Jan. -March
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51%
51%
59%
76%
57%
51%
37%
72%
59%
45%
48%
45%
April -June
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13%
13%
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7%
10%
20%
2%
4%
15%
17%
19%
July-Sept.
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3%
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0%
0%
3%
6%
0%
0%
3%
0%
0%
Oct. -Dec.
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33%
33%
32%
24%
36%
36%
37%
26%
37%
37%
34%
36%
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TABLE 2-7
SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS OF FUEL USE FOR RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL
SPACEHEATING - 1971 (BASED ON DEGREE-DAYS)
County
Bel knap, N.H.
Franklin, Ma.
Worcester, Ma.
Baltimore, Md.
Palm Beach, Fl .
St. Louis, Mo.
Minnehaha, S.D.
King, Wa.
Galveston, Tx.
Jefferson, Al .
Boulder, Co.
Los Angeles, Ca.
San Diego, Ca.
Jan. -March
50%
52%
52%
58%
94%
59%
51%
40%
71%
63%
41%
42%
49%
April-June
14%
15%
15%
11%
6%
9%
10%
20%
3%
9%
16%
15%
17%
July-Sept.
3%
2%
2%
1%
0%
1%
3%
6%
0%
0%
5%
0%
0%
Oct. -Dec.
33%
31%
31%
30%
0%
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36%
34%
26%
28%
37%
43%
34%
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TABLE 2-8
SUMMARY OF SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS OF RESIDUAL OIL
USED BY INDUSTRIAL SOURCES
SIC
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
Industry Group
Ordnances
Food
Tobacco
Textile
Apparel
Lumber & Wood
Furniture
Paper
Printing
Chemicals
Petroleum
Rubber & Plastics
Leather
Stone, Clay, Glass
Primary Metals
Fab. Metals
Machinery, exc. electr.
Electr. Equipment
Transportation
Instruments
Miscellaneous
Winter
36%
29%
25%
28%
37%
25%
31%
26%
38%
27%
25%
30%
32%
26%
26%
28%
29%
35%
40%
27%
37%
Spring
22%
29%
25%
25%
25%
25%
25%
25%
23%
25%
25%
25%
25%
25%
28%
25%
25%
24%
16%
25%
25%
Summer
14%
21%
25%
22%
13%
25%
19%
24%
13%
23%
25%
20%
18%
. 24%
24%
22%
20%
17%
11%
23%
14%
Fall
28%
21%
25%
25%
25%
25%
25%
25%
26%
25%
25%
25%
25%
25%
22%
25%
25%
24%
33%
25%
24%
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TABLE 2-9
SULFUR CONTENT AVERAGES FOR DISTILLATE AMD
RESIDUAL OIL BURNED BY AREA SOURCES
(percentages)
County
Belknap, N.H.
Franklin, Ma.
Worcester, Ma.
Baltimore, Md.
Palm Beach, Fl .
St. Louis, Mo.
Minnehaha, S.D.
King, Wa.
Galveston, Tx.
Jefferson, Al .
Boulder, Co.
Los Angeles, Ca.
San Diego, Ca.
1970
Distillate
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.17
0.28
0.28
0.21
0.17
0.17
0.32
0.21
0.21
Residual
1.90
2.00
2.00
1.47
2.00
1.67
1.67
1.64
1.73
1.73
2.15
1.64
1.64
1971
Distillate
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.21
0.19
0.27
0.27
0.21
0.19
0.19
0.32
0.21
0.21
Residual
1.68
1.85
1.85
1.00
1.30
1.64
1.64
1.56
1.73
1.73
2.15
1.56
1.56
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REFERENCES - SECTION II
1. C1imatologi cal Data, monthly summarized station and divisional data,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration, Ashville, N.C.
2. Burner Fuel Oils, Mineral Industry Surveys, Bureau of Mines, Bartles-
ville, Okla.
3. Fuel Oils by Sulfur Content, Mineral Industry Surveys, Bureau of Mines,
Washington, D.C.
4. Oil Availability by Sulfur Levels, Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C,,
1971.
5. Guide for Compiling a Comprehensive Emission Inventory, Environmental
Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 1973.
6. 1970 Census of Housing - Detailed Characteristics, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, Washington, D.C.
7. Mineral Industry Surveys, Annual Fuel Oil Sales, U.S. Bureau of
Mines, Washington, D.C.
8. 1972 Census of Manufactures, Special Report Series: Fuels and Electric
Energy Consumed, IT.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
9. Highway Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway
Administration, Washington, D.C.
10. Registration data available from R.L. Polk Co., Detroit, Mich.
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III. DISCUSSION OF METHODOLOGY
A. RESIDENTIAL
1. State Fuel Oil
Four different methods were attempted to arrive at the
residential use of distillate oil by state:
(1) Using EPA's suggested estimate of 0.18 gallons/unit/
degree-day [1] to determine fuel oil consumed for spaceheating require-
ments.
(2) Using the formula:
# of oil burners x avg size (Btu/hr) x 8760 (hr/yr) x load
140,000 (Btu/gallon)
to determine fuel oil consumed for spaceheating requirements [2].
(3) Using a stepwise regression analysis which included
the independent variables: degree-days, price of fuel, per capita in-
come, and average number of rooms per housing unit, to determine fuel
oil consumed for spaceheating requirements.
(4) Using the formula:
# of oil burners x heat loss x degree-days x use factor
140,000 Btu/gallon x design range
to determine fuel oil consumed for spaceheating requirements, where the
heat loss was dependent on the average square feet per housing unit [3],
These calculations are discussed in detail in Appendix A.
Table 3-1 shows estimates for selected states of residential
fuel oil used for spaceheating as calculated by each of these methods. In
general, it was felt that the need to average and estimate so many of the
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TABLE 3-1
SUMMARY OF ESTIMATION METHODS FOR RESIDENTIAL FUEL
OIL USED FOR SPACEHEATING BY SFATE
Based on:
Massachusetts
Maryland
Missouri
Washington
Maine
Connecticut
Florida
Alabama
EPA<]>
25,678
9,853
2,494
9,533
8,700
15,984
1,927
128
Equipment^ '
42,005
10,307
3,466
16,109
8,326
19,665
1,389
245
Multiple, x
Regression^ '
14,896
7,048
1,234
4,786
3,951
10,475
n.a.
n.a.
Square Feet^ '
n.a.
n.a.
3,236
11,062
n.a.
n.a.
2,466
143
Sources:
(1) EPA Guide for Compiling a Comprehensive Emission Inventory
(2) FuelOil and Oil Heat; Intermediate Boiler Study, Walden
(3) Vlalden, see Appendix A
(4) Independent Gas Association of America; Yankee Oilman
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variables for regions as large as states, reduced the significance of
the more sophisticated methods. It was, therefore, decided to use the
[ I'A factor ho arrive at statewide residential distillate oil used for
spaceheating. Distillate oil used for nonspaceheating was calculated
by multiplying the number of housing units using oil for hot water
heating [4] by 250 gallons per year [1].
•.
This calculation is used only when selected counties are
being processed. When all counties within a state are processed, the more
refined residential distillate oil figures for each county are summarized
to provide the state figure.
2. County Fuel Oil
Using residential gas data by municipalities provided by
various gas companies throughout the country, Walden performed a more
detailed stepwise regression analysis, resulting in the relationships
shown below.
gas use (Mcfs) = 0.01288 x degree-days + 30.41 x average
rooms per housing unit - 79.54
The multiple correlation coefficient (R^) was 0.67 and the
standard error was 20% of the mean. For more details on this regression
analysis, the reader is referred to Appendix A.
Assuming that gas and fuel oil consumed for residential use
are utilized in approximately the same fashion, Walden converted this for-
mula to produce results in gallon of oil consumed and applied it to the
housing units using oil in each county [4] to estimate the distillate oil
used by these units.
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3. Additional Data
For census years, the number of housing units using oil for
spacehe.iting and nonspaceheatimj purposes are easily available [4]. In
order to estimate the number of housing units using oil for spaceheating
in each state in the intermediate years, the following method is used:
(1) The number of oil burners installed in new homes [5]
during the time-span between the year of concern and the census year is
expressed as a percentage of the number of oil burners in use at the end
of the census year (factor 1).
(2) The number of conversions to oil burners [5] minus the
oil burners lost to other fuels [5] during the time-span between the year
of concern and the census year is expressed as a percentage of the number
of oil burners in use at the end of the census year (factor 2).
(3) Housing units using oil in year t = housing units using
oil in the census year prior to t + [(factor 1 + factor 2) x housing units
using oil in the census year prior to t].
Other possible sources to update the census data on housing
units were considered,but both the Construction Reports [6] and data pub-
lished by the F. W. Dodge Co. [7] were found to be incomplete for residen-
tial units.
The same state percentage change is assumed for housing units
using oil in all counties within that state. This is only an estimate, and
the error factor is estimated to be within 2 or 3 percent.
B. COMMERCIAL
1. State Fuel Oil
The commercial category is an extremely complex one, and in
the county-wide allocation methodology, Wai den has attempted to stratify
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the commercial users into a few subcategories which show distinct dif-
ferences in fuel use patterns.
On a statewide level, the fuel oil figures include all oil
burned in stationary sources which is not included under the residential,
industrial, or power plant categories. This means:
Commercial distillate oil = all distillate oil categories,
except power plants - residential distillate oil (see page
3-3) - industrial distillate oil (see page 3-10).
Commercial residual oil = all residual oil categories, ex-
cept power plants - industrial residual oil (see page 3-11).
2. County Fuel Oil
The logic of the methodology to determine commercial fuel
oil consumed on a county-wide basis is that of separating out the major
categories which consume fuel oil in a special way, and distributing the
remaining fuel oil by means of adjusted county commercial employment
figures [9].
For this purpose, Wai den performed several linear regres-
sions to determine the correlation between employment and fuel used by
the following subcategories:
(1) Hospitals
(2) Schools
(3) Colleges
(4) Laundries
(5) Hotels
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The results of these analyses are discussed in detail in Appendix B,
and are summarized below in Table 3-2.
TABLE 3-2
REGRESSION RESULTS FOR FUEL OIL '
USED BY COMMERCIAL SUBCATEGORIES
Category
Hospitals
Schools
Colleges
Laundries
Hotels
Dependent
Variable
Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil
Oil
Independent
Variable
Employment
Employment
Employment
Employment
Rooms*
R2
0.81
0.58
0.67
0.72
0.96
Slope
0.715
2.97
0.546
0.355
1.09
Intercept
+208.5
+ 76.2
- 40.9
+ 8.4
+ 41.5
Rooms/Employment ratios have been calculated by state (see Appendix B).
Using these relationships it is possible to separate out
the fuel oil used by categories in each state based on employment •
figures [9], once it is known what percentage of the commercial establish-
ments in each state use oil and what grade of oil (distillate or residual)
is likely to be used.
In order to determine the fuel choice for the subcategories,
it was assumed that the ratio of coal, distillate'oil, residual oil and gas
for the subcategories in a state would not differ significantly from the
fuel use pattern in that state for the commercial category as a whole.
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Therefore, Walden collected data by state on commercial coal use [10] and
commercial gas use [11]. The results for the selected states are shown in
Tables 3-3 and 3-4 for 1970 and 1971, respectively.
The above methods enable us to calculate the distillate and
residual oil use for the five categories in each county.
In addition, Walden estimated the distillate and residual oil
consumed by housing units in structures of 20 units or more in each county.
This was done by assuming that of the units using oil, those in structures
of 50 units or more used mostly residual oil [12,13] and all others used
distillate oil. Since the 1970 Census of Housing did not provide suffi-
cient data to separate out the units :n structures of more than 50 units
on a county basis, it was decided to aoply the state percentages repre-
sented by these units to the county housing unit figures.
The final method for county allocation of commercial fuel oil
can thus be reduced to the following steps:
(1) Calculate distillate and residual oil consumed in each
county by hospitals, schools, colleges, laundries, hotels and residential
units in structures of 20 units or more.
(2) Adjust the statewide distillate and residual oil figures
to exclude the oil consumed in all counties by the above categories.
(3) Adjust county and state commercial employment to exclude
employment for the first five subcategories.
(4) Distribute the remaining state fuel oil figures by means
of the following method:
adjusted commercial employment in county i
fuel oil consumed in county i = adjusted commercial employment in state I
x fuel oil consumed in state I
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TABLE 3-3
1970 COMMERCIAL COAL, OIL, GAS USE BY STATE
State
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Maryland
Florida
Alabama
Missouri
Texas
South Dakota
Colorado
California
Washington
Total Btu
(Billions)
7,569
235,601
50,386
40,641
33,888
96,039
140,667
12,031
68,584
307,991
54,987
Coal
1.3%
0.6%
3.5%
6.6%
6.4%
3.2%
0.1%
24.5%
11.9%
0.8%
3.6%
% of
Distillate
31.3%
35.2%
16.5%
26.4%
7.3%
13.6%
16.4%
9.4%
6.5%
6.7%
20.3%
Total
Residual
50.8%
52.0%
46.1%
18.2%
3.3%
9.2%
3.3%
0.6%
2.3%
24.2%
39.7%
Gas
16.5%
12.2%
33.9%
48.8%
83.0%
74.0%
80.3%
65.5%
79.2%
68.3%
36.3%
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TABLE 3-4
1971 COMMERCIAL COAL, OIL, GAS USE BY STATE
State
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Maryland
Florida
Alabama
Missouri
Texas
South Dakota
Colorado
California
Washington
Total Btu
(Billions)
10,215
249,841
53,178
43,577
33,249
90,647
131,627
10,899
70,874
318,268
54,198
Coal
0.4%
0.1%
1.7%
3.0%
5.0%
2.0%
0.1%
17.3%
7.8%
0.0%
2.5%
% of Total
Distillate
31.6%
37.0%
14.4%
23.2%
7.8%
14.0%
18.9%
0.0%
7.2%
11.5%
21.2%
Residual
53.2%
50.0%
48.7%
24.2%
2.0%
5.8%
2.4%
0.1%
2.0%
15.5%
35.0%
Gas
14.7%
12.8%
35.2%
49.6%
85.1%
78.1%
78.6%
82.6%
83.0%
73.0%
41.3%
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(5) Total commercial fuel oil in each county would be the sum
of Steps 1 and 4.
Methods suggested by the EPA to allocate commercial fuel oil
were previously based on a straightforward distribution by means of employ-
ment ratios [1]. This assumed the same ratio of fuel use per employee for
all the various types of establishments included in the commercial category.
The results of the regression analyses performed for the various subcate-
gories by Walden show that this assumption was incorrect. The methodology
used in this project to allocate commercial fuel use to counties is, there-
fore, considered to be a significant improvement over previous methods.
C. INDUSTRIAL
1. State Fuel Oil
For the years for which industrial fuel oil use is available
by state and SIC group from the Census of Manufactures [14], the distillate
and residual oil consumed by manufacturers in each state are taken straight
out of that publication. Otherwise, the Bureau of Mines data [8] are used
to arrive at total industrial fuel oil use by state as shown below:
Industrial distillate oil = [b* x (distillate oil used
for heating [8] - residential distillate oil (see page
3-3 )] + distillate oil for industrial use [8] + distil-
late oil for oil company use [8]
tnanufactyri ng empl oyment
b= commercial + manufacturing employment ' where the commercial category
includes wholesale and retail trade, finance, insurance and real
estate, and services [10].
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Industrial residual oil - [b* x residual oil used for
heating [8]] + residual oil for industrial use [8] +
residual oil for oil company use [8]
2. County Fuel Oil
The logic of the methodology to determine industrial fuel oil
consumed on a county-wide basis is that of adjusting the county employment
figures [9] for two-digit SIC groups by a fuel intensity factor, and using
these adjusted employment figures to allocate the state fuel oil figures to
the appropriate counties.
For those years for which distillate and residual oil data
by state and two-digit SIC are available [14], the fuel intensity factors
are represented by Barrels/Employment factors, which are developed by state
and SIC groups. For the years in which such state data are not published,
nationwide fuel intensity factors by two-digit SIC are used to adjust the
employment figures. Table 3-5 shows the nationwide fuel intensity ratios
which were applied to the 1970, 1971 and 1972 industrial employment figures,
D. HEAVY DUTY VEHICLES
1- State Gasoline and Diesel - HDV
Four heavy-duty vehicle (HOY) truck categories are used:
manufacturing employment
b= commercial + manufacturing employment* where the commercial category
includes wholesale and retail trade, finance, insurance and real
estate, and services [10].
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TABLE 3-5
NATIONWIDE FUEL INTENSITY RATIOS
SIC
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
19
Industry
Food
Tobacco
Textile
Apparel
Lumber & Wood
Furniture
Paper
Printing
Chemicals
Petroleum
Rubber & Plastics
Leather
Stone, Clay, Glass
Primary Metals
Fab. Metals
Machinery, exc. electr.
Electr. Equipment
Transportation
Instruments
Miscellaneous
Ordnance
All Manufacturing
Fuels Purchased
Million $^
423.0
8.5
123.3
34.6
147.1
27.2
462.7
46.6
772.2
384.4
74.0
14.8
511.9
1,103.9
174.8
166.5
107.3
160.1
28.3
27.1
21.8
4,829.1
Employment
Thou/2)
1,595
71
948
1,376
555
446
668
1,082
881
136
558
304
592
1,268
1,354
1,996
1,881
1,817
405
422
343
19,762
Ratio
0.27
0.12
0.13
0.03
0.27
0.06
0.69
0.04
0.88
2.83
0.13
0.05
0.86
0.87
0.13
0.08
0.06
0.09
0.07
0.06
0.06
0.24
Sources: (1)
1970 Annual Survey of Manufacturers, Fuels and Electric
Energy Used by Industry Groups, U.S. Dept. of Commerce,
Washington, D.C.
(2) 1970 County Business Patterns, U.S. Summary, U.S. Dept.
of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
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HDV-] are trucks with gross weights between 6,001 and ] 0,000 Ib.
HDV2 are trucks with gross weights between 10,001 and 20,000 Ib.
HDV3 are trucks with gross weights between 20,001 and 26,000 Ib.
are trucks with gross weights greater than 26,000 Ib.
In order to obtain the total motor fuel consumed by all HDV
categories in each state, the following calculation is performed:
1=4
Motor fuel for HDV = £ (HDV.J x average miles -j /miles per
i=l
gallon-,-) + commercial buses x average gallons per bus +
school buses x average gallons per bus
The breakdown of trucks into the four weight categories is
available from the Census of Transportation (published every 5 years), or
from R. L. Polk in Detroit, Michigan. For 1971, such a stratification
was available for 15 states [15]. Wai den estimated the correct break-
downs for the remaining states for 1971, based on geographical location.
By means of interpolation between the 1967 data [16] and the 1971 data [15],
the 1970 breakdown of trucks by weight categories was obtained. For years
for which the Census of Transportation data on the R. L. Polk figures are
available, such manipulation of the data will be unnecessary.
It is expected that county-wide truck registration data by
weight categories will be supplied on a regular basis to the EPA by R. L.
Polk of Detroit, Michigan.
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Average miles per gallon by weight category are taken from
the Census of Transportation and are held constant over the five years
following that Census. Upon publication of the new Census of Transporta-
tion, these averages must be updated.
Miles per gallon figures by weight category were derived from
Road User and Property Taxes, a tri-annual publication of the Federal High-
way Administration. The curve from which this information was derived is
shown in Figure 3-1.
Data on buses were obtained from both the Federal Highway Ad-
ministration [15] and the Automobile Manufacturers Association [17].
Once total motor fuel consumed by HDV's has been calculated
for each state, gasoline usage by HDV's is obtained by subtracting total
diesel and butane use [15] from the motor fuel figures for each state.
Diesel totals for HDV's are estimated annually by the Federal Highway Ad-
ministration [18].
2. County Gasoline and Diesel - HDV
County use of diesel by HDV's is obtained by using county
truck registrations [19] as the apportioning factors to be applied to
total diesel used by HDV's in the respective state.
Diesel HDVrnim. . = trucks > 6000 Ib d1 , HDV
county n trucks > 6000 Ibj State l
In order to calculate the county use of gasoline for HDV's,
the county-by-county R.L. Polk truck registrations by weight categories
are used. If these data are not available, county registrations of trucks
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by weight categories are estimated by assuming that the proportion of
registrations in each category is the same for all counties within a
state. The remaining calculation is similar to that used to obtain
the state totals for this category:
(gasoline HDV)CQunty . = [^ HDVj x avg milesj(I)/MPG.(I)
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An alternate method to allocate gasoline and diesel use by
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one-time study on truck vehicle miles performed by the Federal Highway
Administration. The method consisted of the following steps:
(1) Calculate the vehicle miles traveled on a statewide
basis by respectively diesel and gasoline trucks on interstate highways.
(2) Estimate the corresponding county vehicle miles by
means of county level interstate highway mileage totals.
(3) Divide the county vehicle miles by the average miles
traveled per gallon of fuel to obtain the gasoline and diesel consumed
by heavy-duty vehicles on interstate highways in each county.
(4) Estimate the gasoline and diesel used in each county
by heavy-duty vehicles on other than Interstate highways.
(5) The sum of steps (3) and (4) for respectively gasoline
and diesel consumption would be the county-wide figures for the consumption
of motor fuels by heavy-duty vehicles.
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The method was not used because the procedure was considered too time-con-
suming and costly, and also because the truck vehicle mile data required
would not be available on a yearly basis. For a more detailed description
of the analysis of this method, the reader is referred to Appendix D.
E. LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES
1. State Gasoline - LDV
It was assumed that the diesel consumed by LDV's is negli-
gible.* This assumption should probably be re-examined in five years.
Statewide use of gasoline is reported both by the American
Petroleum Institute [20] and the Federal Highway Administration [15]. It
was found that the FHWA state data were more up-to-date and statistically
adjusted, and Maiden decided to use these figures instead of those of the
API. Statewide use of gasoline by light-duty vehicles is obtained by sub-
tracting the gasoline used by HDV's (see page 3-13) from the total gasoline
reported for each state.
2. County Gasoline - LDV
County-wide gasoline figures for LDV's are obtained preferably
by using vehicle miles as a distributive factor on the statewide total gaso-
line figures [21] and subtracting the county use of gasoline by HDV's from
the result. For those states for which no county-wide vehicle miles are
available, registrations of light-duty vehicles by county [20], adjusted by
a rural/urban factor, are to be used.
*
All on-highway consumption of diesel was assumed to be used by HDV's.
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The rural/urban factors were derived from a statistical analy-
sis performed by Walden (see Appendix C). In short, Walden attempted to
find significant relationships between miles traveled by cars annually and
the degree of ruralness of each county, using data for seven states. The
multiple correlation coefficients were found to be too low and the standard
errors too high to permit the use of regression curves for this estimation
process. The resulting factors are summarized in Table 3-6.
For those states for which no vehicle miles were available,
county-wide registrations of automobiles and trucks of less than 6,000 Ib
weighted by the indexes shown in Table 3-6, were used as the distributive
factor to be applied to the statewide gasoline totals. This resulted in
total gasoline use by county. By subtracting the previously calculated
gasoline used by HDV's, the county-wide gasoline use by LDV's is obtained.
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TABLE 3-6
AVERAGE MILES PER VEHICLE BY % RURAL CATEGORIES
State
California
Washington
Kansas
Iowa
Georgia
Maine
Arkansas
Seven State Avg.
Indexes
Entire
Sample
15,152
18,722
16,155
15,643
23,140
15,261
18,652
Modified
Sample
13,047
17,092
15,179
14,604
20,262
15,261
.17,932
16,709
100
_< 25%
10,729
11,940
10,706
11,468
13,185
11,210
11,039
11,217
67
26-50%
12,202
15,793
13,622
12,141
17,680
15,396
15,908
14,572
87
51-75%
14,803
15,778
15,306
15,501
19,687
14,876
18,144
17,238
103
76-100%
16,920
21,855
17,225
15,862
22,461
15,995
19,458
19,261
115
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REFERENCES - SECTION III
1. Guide for Compiling a Comprehensive Emission Inventory, Environmental
Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 1973.
2. Systematic Study of Air Pollution From Intermediate Size Fossil-Fuel
Combustion Equipment. Maiden Research Corporation. Cambridge, Mass.,
March 1971.
3. Fuel Trades Fact Book, New England Fuel Institute, Boston, Mass.,
March 1973.
4. 1970 Census of Housing - Detailed Characteristics, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, Washihgton, D. C.
5. Fuel Oil and Oil Heat, Cedar Grove, N.J., October 1972.
6. Construction Reports, 1971, Housing Authorized by Building Permits
and Public Contracts, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
7. Reports available from the F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw Hill.
8. Mineral Industry Surveys, Annual Fuel Oil Sales, U.S. Bureau of
Mines, Washington, D.C.
9. County Business Patterns, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
10. Minerals Yearbook, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C.
^- Gas Facts, American Gas Association, Arlington, Va.
12. Personal communication with Mr. Nespeco of the National Oil and
Fuel Institute, New York, N.Y.
13. An Analysis of the Economic Impact of the Massachusetts Air Pollution
Control Regulations, Walden Research Corporation, Cambridge, Mass.,
December 1972.
14. 1972 Census of Manufactures, Special Report Series, Fuel and Electric
Energy Consumed, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
15. 1971 Highway Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal .Highway
Administration, Washington, D.C.
16. Census of Transportation, 1967, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of
Census, Washington, D.C.
17. 1971 Motor Truck Facts, Automobile Manufacturers Association, New
York, N.Y.
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18. Special diesel estimates by state provided to Walden by Mr. L.L.
Liston of the Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics
Division, Washington, D.C.
19. Registration data available from R.L. Polk Co., Detroit, Mich.
20. Total Gasoline Consumption in the United States, American Petroleum
Institute, Washington, D.C.
21. Obtained by contacting all state highway departments in the U.S.
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IV. SULFUR CONTENTS AND SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS
A. SULFUR CONTENTS
The following sources contain information which was used in this
project to determine the sulfur content of fuel oils used in the United
States:
(1) Actual data from NEDS point source files.
(2) Burner Fuel Oils, Mineral Industry Surveys, Bureau of
Mines, Bartlesville, Oklahoma (annual).
(3) Fuel Oils by Sulfur Content, Mineral Industry Surveys,
Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C. (monthly).
(4) Oil Availability by Sulfur Levels, Bureau of Mines,
Washington, D.C., August 1971.
(5) Import Supplement to Oil Availability by Sulfur Levels,
Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C., June 1972.
1. Sulfur Content Reported for NEDS Point Sources Using Oil
The NEDS data were summarized by Wai den and the results are
shown in Tables 4-1 and 4-2 for selected counties. In general, it may be
said that the average sulfur contents which could be derived from these
data are not applicable to area sources. The distillate oil used by point
sources is biased towards grade #4 distillate oil, and the sulfur contents
of the residual oil used are also slightly upward biased. It is therefore
not recommended to use the sulfur contents derived from these summaries for
area sources.
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2. Burner Fuel Oils, MIS, Bureau of Mines
In this publication, which appears yearly, samples of fuels,
selected by their manufacturer as typical of that year's production of
that specific grade and brand [1] are taken. Walden applied the results
shown in these reports to selected counties (see Tables 4-3 and 4-4).
Although the Bureau of Mines sulfur figures are for large
regions, lacking the detail required for this project, it seems more
accurate to use the average sulfur contents reported by the Bureau of
Mines for area source calculations, instead of using the average sulfur
content of fuel oil used by the point sources in each county. The
Bureau of Mines sample is quite small for #4 and #5 grade fuel oil, but
comprises 134, 149 and 109 sample points for respectively #1, #2 and #6
fuel oil in 1970.
It would be extremely useful if the sample size for this
survey were significantly increased, enabling summaries of sulfur contents
of burner fuel oils by smaller regions. This would provide the EPA with
better sulfur content data to be used in area source emission calculations,
3. Fuel Oils by Sulfur Content, MIS, Bureau of Mines
In this monthly publication, sulfur content data are shown
for #4 fuel oil and residual oil imported into the United States. The
December issue usually contains a summary of the type shown in Tables 4-5
and 4-6. The problem with these data is that the sulfur content applies
to the fuel as imported into the state shown. It has been found that the
4-4