State of Environment
Indicator 57 - Monthly incinerator fuel usage of Australian Antarctic Stations
Description
- Indicator Definition
- The quantity of fuel used for incinerators at Casey, Davis, Mawson and
Macquarie Island stations as measured on a monthly basis and reported in the
monthly reports from the Station Plant Inspectors to the Kingston (Head
Office) Mechanical Supervisor.
Responsible organisation
Australian Antarctic Division ( Australia )
Custodians
No custodians.
Theme area
Human Settlements
Indicator type
Pressure
Criteria the indicator satisfies
The following 14 out of 15 criteria
1. | Serve as a robust indicator of environmental change |
2. | Reflect a fundamental or highly-valued aspect of the environment or an important environmental issue |
3. | Be either national in scope or applicable to regional environmental issues of national significance |
4. | Provide an early warning of potential problems |
5. | Be capable of being monitored to provide statistically verifiable and reproducible data that shows trends over time and, preferably, apply to a broad range of environmental regions |
6. | Be scientifically credible |
7. | Be easy to understand |
8. | Be monitored with relative ease |
9. | Be cost-effective |
10. | Have relevance to policy and management needs |
11. | Contribute to monitoring of progress towards implementing commitments in nationally important environmental policies |
12. | Where possible and appropriate, facilitate community involvement |
13. | Contribute to the fulfillment of reporting obligations under international agreements |
15. | Where possible and appropriate, be consistent and comparable with other countries� and state and territory indicators |
Date input
Monthly measurements
Monitoring location
Geographic coverage
- Latitude (-54.6198 to -54.6198)
Longitude (158.8609 to 158.8609)
- Latitude (-66.2818 to -66.2818)
Longitude (110.5276 to 110.5276)
- Latitude (-67.6026 to -67.6026)
Longitude (62.8738 to 62.8738)
- Latitude (-68.5766 to -68.5766)
Longitude (77.9673 to 77.9673)
- Rationale For Indicator Selection
- The amount of fuel used in Antarctica for waste incineration contributes to
environmental impact due to the emissions released.
Special Antarctic Blend (SAB), a light diesel like fuel, is used at the
stations for the incinerators.
- Design and Strategy For Indicator Monitoring Program
- Spatial scale: Australian Antarctic stations: Casey (lat 66 deg 16' 54.5" S,
long 110 deg 31' 39.4" E), Davis (lat 68 deg 34' 35.8" S,
long 77 deg 58' 02.6" E), Mawson (lat 67 deg 36' 09.7" S,
long 62 deg 52' 25.7" E) and Macquarie Island (lat 54 deg 37' 59.9" S,
long 158 deg 52' 59.9" E).
Frequency: Monthly reports
Measurement technique: The figures are obtained by direct reading of gauges on
the stations on a regular basis. The data is recorded in the Plant Inspectors
monthly reports.
- Research Issues
- In the future, it is planned to automate the collection of most of this data.
Data
Temporal range of the available data, as described by the metadata record, is from
01-Jan-1990
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- Timespan
- January-1993 to February-2016
- Number of data points
- 960
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- View graphs for Davis
- View graphs for Macquarie Island
Macquarie Island: Fuel usage
- View graphs for Mawson
Data quality, interpretation and analysis of indicator data
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- Fuel used by the station incinerator is one of the indicators of the quantity of waste generated on the station.
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- Changes in the quantity of fuel used provide an indication of efficiencies in plant, energy and waste saving strategies and/or an indication of the ambient temperature.
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- This indicator is a measure of the amount of fuel used to incinerate waste at the stations. Each station has a high temperature incinerator that is used to incinerate kitchen waste, some packaging waste, and other waste such as field waste that is not suitable for RTA. The incinerator is only used when there is sufficient waste to warrant a burn. Over winter, this can be weekly. Over summer, it is often daily. The quantity of fuel used provides an indication of the quantity of waste produced, which should be proportional to the number of people on station.
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Data usage constraints
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This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Data access constraints
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Data arising from this project are available from the state of the environment indicator URL given below.
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Custodian evaluation
12 Nov 2002
Pressure scale - 2
1 - undetectable external pressure on the environment
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7 - extreme external pressure on the environment, degradation accelerating
State of Knowledge scale - 5
1 - Poor
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7 - Excellent
3 Jul 2007
Pressure scale - 4 - moderate external pressure on the environment, degradation documented
1 - undetectable external pressure on the environment
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7 - extreme external pressure on the environment, degradation accelerating
State of Knowledge scale - 5
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7 - Excellent
For definitions of the Scale categories, consult the
Explanation of the Status Categories
Related resources
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Scientific Bibliography 17276
- Harrington, Philip (1999) Government Support for the Renewable Energy Industry in Australia. Proceedings of the 1999 Australian Wind Energy Conference: Keynote Address.
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- Waste returned to Australia
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SOE Indicator 54
- Amount of waste incinerated at Australian Antarctic Stations
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SOE Indicator 56
- Monthly fuel usage of the generator sets and boilers
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- Monthly total of fuel used by vehicles at Australian Antarctic Stations
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- Total flight hours in the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) by Australian helicopters and fixed wing aircraft
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- Monthly fuel usage of ships travelling to Australian Antarctic Stations
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Parameters
The properties link can be used to view details of the parameters measured for this indicator.
Parameter Name |
Unit of measure |
Properties |
Fuel usage |
litres |
Properties |
The following parameters and/or sensor notes are from the metadata record.
Parameters
EARTH SCIENCE
> HUMAN DIMENSIONS
> ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
> FOSSIL FUEL BURNING
EARTH SCIENCE
> HUMAN DIMENSIONS
> ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
> INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS
EARTH SCIENCE
> HUMAN DIMENSIONS
> INFRASTRUCTURE
> BUILDINGS
EARTH SCIENCE
> HUMAN DIMENSIONS
> INFRASTRUCTURE
> ELECTRICITY
Related URLs
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SOE_incinerator_fuel_usage
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=1272
Download page for Australian Antarctic Data Centre