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

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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](https://senseible.earth/answers/jharsuguda-smelter-anode-co2-per-tonne)
- [Graphite electrode CO2](https://senseible.earth/answers/graphite-electrode-manufacturing-co2-per-tonne)
- [Carbon black CO2](https://senseible.earth/answers/carbon-black-co2-per-tonne)

Sources: [IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy (fuel defaults)](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html), [GHG Protocol Corporate Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard), [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.