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Cement clinker energy input fix

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@romainsacchi romainsacchi released this 17 Jun 10:35

premise v2.4.6

This patch release fixes cement clinker fuel accounting in scenario-transformed databases.

Highlights

  • Corrected clinker kiln fuel-efficiency adjustments to account for secondary-fuel energy represented by emissions but
    not listed as burdened technosphere fuel inputs.
  • Prevented over-reduction of hard coal inputs when clinker datasets contain multiple hard-coal exchanges by applying
    the energy reduction once to aggregate hard coal, then scaling split suppliers proportionally.
  • Updated fossil CO2 changes from the actual applied hard-coal energy change while leaving non-fossil CO2 unchanged
    outside CCS handling.
  • Enforced practical clinker fuel-demand floors of 3.1 GJ/t for ordinary clinker production and 3.0 GJ/t for
    efficient dry kiln technologies.
  • Added explicit dataset and exchange comments to transformed clinker inventories documenting visible fuel energy,
    inferred hidden secondary-fuel bookkeeping, old/new fuel demand, hard-coal scaling, and CO2 handling.
  • Added regression tests for split hard-coal inputs, fuel-demand floors, non-negative hard-coal scaling, and the new
    comment metadata.

Validation

  • Focused cement regression tests pass.