Data on greenhouse gases emission of fuels in power plants in Malaysia during the year of 1990-2017

Wan Nurdiyana Wan Mansor; Samsuri Abdullah; Che Wan Mohd Noor Che Wan Othman; Mohamad Nor Khasbi Jarkoni; How-Ran Chao; Sheng-Lun Lin

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105440

Data on greenhouse gases emission of fuels in power plants in Malaysia during the year of 1990-2017

Data Brief. 2020 Mar 19:30:105440. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105440. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Wan Nurdiyana Wan Mansor^{1

2}, Samsuri Abdullah^{1

2}, Che Wan Mohd Noor Che Wan Othman¹, Mohamad Nor Khasbi Jarkoni¹, How-Ran Chao³, Sheng-Lun Lin^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Ocean Engineering Technology & Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21300, Malaysia.
² Air Quality and Environment Research Group, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21300, K. Nerus, Malaysia.
³ Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung City 83347, Taiwan.
⁵ Center for Environmental Toxin and Emerging-Contaminant Research, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung 83347, Taiwan.

Abstract

Energy has a significant influence on Malaysia's industry. It is used in electricity generation, refineries, gas processing plants and end-user applications such as transportation, residential, agriculture and fishing. These burning fossil fuel activities produce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. This article presents the emissions data of fuel used in power plants in Malaysia during the year of 1990 until 2017. The fuel used in power plants is coal and coke, natural gas, diesel oil and residual fuel oil. The energy data used in power plants were gathered from the Malaysia Energy Information Hub, published by the Malaysian Energy Commission. The GHG emissions data were calculated using the emission factors method. The climate impact of different GHGs in terms of CO₂-equivalent (CO₂-e) was also calculated using global warming potentials. The article also presents population data in Malaysia during the year. A correlation between the fuels, GHG emission and the population is also investigated using statistical analysis. The data presented here may facilitate the Malaysian government to identify the source of the pollutants and undertake a climate change mitigation plan.

Keywords: Emission factor; Energy data of Malaysia; Greenhouse gas emission; Malaysia power plants.