How are emissions counted at a coal tar pitch distillation plant?

Coal tar from coke ovens is heated in a fired still and split into pitch, oils and naphthalene. The furnace fuel is Scope 1. The tar arrives as a by-product, so ask the coke maker how it allocates emissions to it. Anode and graphite electrode makers buy the pitch.

At the distillery

• Fuel for the tar still furnace.
• Electricity for pumps and pitch handling.
• Fume incineration, if fitted.

The tar itself

Coke oven emissions belong to the coke maker. A share reaches the tar only if the coke maker allocates some to it. Record which approach your supplier used.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

• Smelter anode CO2
• Graphite electrode CO2
• Carbon black CO2

Sources: IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy (fuel defaults), GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.