TWI836815B - Carbon tax cost assessment system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a carbon tax cost assessment system and method thereof. The system includes a control module and a carbon emission calculation module, a capturing module, and cost obtaining module that are coupled with each other. The carbon emission calculation module calculates the carbon emission amount per unit product. The capturing module automatically captures and updates the carbon emission standard value per unit product and the carbon tax unit price in each country. The cost obtaining module includes an input unit and a cost generation unit. The input unit allows the user to input the sales amount or weight of corresponding unit product. The cost generation unit, according to the difference value between the carbon emission standard value and the carbon emission amount of the unit product, obtain the overall carbon tax cost based on the multiplication product of the difference value, the carbon tax unit price, and the sales amount or weight. Thus, an enterprise is allowed to assess the to-be-paid carbon tax cost of the unit product sold to other countries.

Description

Carbon tariff cost assessment system and method

The present invention relates to an assessment system and method thereof, and in particular to a carbon tariff cost assessment system and method thereof.

Greenhouse gases mainly include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), etc. These greenhouse gases are caused and produced by human activities. The greenhouse gas system absorbs the radiant heat reflected from the earth's surface and has a great impact on the earth's temperature and climate. Therefore, in order to sustain environmental protection and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, countries Net-zero emissions all start from various institutional and legal aspects.

Among them, carbon tax has begun to be implemented in some countries. It is an environmental tax levied on certain goods or services that cause carbon dioxide emissions according to the amount of emissions. Carbon tax can be levied on any other greenhouse gas, usually converted into an amount equivalent to carbon dioxide emissions. Studies have shown that carbon tax effectively reduces emissions, and some countries even price carbon in some form through carbon tax or emission rights trading.

Therefore, when the products manufactured by various manufacturing industries are sold to other countries, they may face the imposition of carbon taxes or carbon tariffs, which will lead to increased production costs; on the contrary, if the carbon emissions of the manufactured products can be effectively controlled and are lower than the standard value of carbon emissions in the sales location, they can also obtain carbon tax or carbon tariff exemptions, or even tax rebates.

In view of this, how to effectively calculate the carbon tariff cost that the manufacturing industry has to pay in manufacturing production so that corporate managers can effectively grasp it is one of the issues that the present invention aims to solve.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a carbon tariff cost assessment system and method, which allows enterprises to instantly grasp the carbon tariff cost of unit product sales to other countries, so that enterprises can adjust production strategies or operation strategies in a timely manner.

In order to achieve the above object, one embodiment of the present invention provides a carbon tariff cost assessment system, a control module, a carbon emission calculation module, a capture module and a cost acquisition module. The carbon emission calculation module is coupled to the control module, and the carbon emission calculation module obtains a carbon emission amount based on the product of an activity data value for manufacturing a unit of product, an emission coefficient, and a greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP); The capture module is coupled to the control module. The capture module can automatically capture or input and update the carbon tariff information of each country through the Internet, and obtain a unit product carbon of the corresponding unit product based on the carbon tariff information. Emission standard value and a carbon tariff unit price; the cost acquisition module is coupled to the control module. The cost acquisition module has an input unit and a cost generation unit. The input unit allows the user to input a sales volume of the corresponding unit product. Or a weight, the cost generation unit is used to obtain an overall carbon tariff cost based on the difference between the carbon emission standard value of the unit product and the carbon emission amount, and multiplying the difference with the carbon tariff unit price and sales volume or weight.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the activity data value is a production energy consumption value, a raw material and fuel consumption value, or a production necessary activity value.

In another embodiment of the present invention, an energy consumption detection module may be included, which is coupled to the control module and a device. The energy consumption detection module is used to detect the energy consumption produced by the device within a unit time. The total number of unit products and a total production consumption are calculated, and the total production consumption is allocated to the total number of unit products to obtain the production energy consumption value and remotely transmitted to the carbon emission calculation module.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the activity data value may include an other gas emission intensity; the carbon tariff cost assessment system further includes an other gas monitoring module for real-time monitoring of the other gas emission intensity generated by the equipment during the production process and remotely transmitting it to the carbon emission calculation module.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the carbon tariff information originates from the cloud server, and the acquisition module obtains the carbon tariff information through text mining (Text Mining) means or application programming interface (API) means or input, and analyzes it. After entering the file format of the carbon tariff information, the unit product carbon emission standard value and the carbon tariff unit price in the carbon tariff information are retrieved.

In another embodiment of the present invention, a display module and a database module are further included, which are respectively coupled to the control module. The display module is used to display the total carbon tariff cost, and the database module is used to store the total carbon tariff cost, and pre-stores the emission coefficient and the greenhouse warming potential value (GWP).

In another embodiment of the present invention, the emission coefficient can be one of a coefficient obtained from mass balance, an experience coefficient of the same process equipment, a coefficient provided by the manufacturer, a regional emission coefficient, a national emission coefficient and an international emission coefficient.

To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, another embodiment of the present invention provides a carbon tariff cost assessment method, which includes the following steps:

A carbon emission calculation step is based on the product of an activity data value for manufacturing a unit of product, an emission coefficient, and a greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP) to obtain a carbon emission amount.

The first retrieval step is to retrieve the carbon tariff information of each country through the Internet, and obtain the carbon emission standard value of one unit product and the carbon tariff unit price of the corresponding unit product based on the carbon tariff information.

A cost obtaining step is to obtain a total carbon tariff cost based on a difference between the carbon emission standard value per unit product and the carbon emission amount, and to multiply the difference with the unit price of the carbon tariff and a sales volume or a weight per unit product.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the activity data value includes a production energy consumption value, a raw material consumption value and a production necessary activity value. The production energy consumption value is provided through an energy consumption detection step. The energy consumption detection step The detection step detects the total number of unit products produced by a piece of equipment within a unit time and a total production consumption, and allocates the total production consumption to the total number of unit products to obtain the production energy consumption value.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the activity data value further includes an other gas emission intensity. The other gas emission intensity is provided by an other gas monitoring step. The other gas monitoring step monitors other gas emissions generated by the equipment during the production process. intensity.

In this way, the present invention can provide enterprises with real-time knowledge of the carbon tariff cost of unit products sold to other countries, so that enterprises can quickly adjust the production strategy or operation strategy of unit products based on the carbon tariff cost.

The above and other objects, technical features and advantages of the present invention will be best understood from the following detailed description and corresponding drawings and embodiments.

Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is not intended to limit the technical principles of the present invention to the specifically disclosed embodiments, but the scope of the present invention is limited only by the scope of the patent application and covers substitutions, modifications and equivalent.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , the present invention is a carbon tariff cost assessment system 100, which includes a control module 10 and a carbon emission calculation module 20, a capture module 30, a cost acquisition module 40, a display module 50 and a database module 60 respectively coupled to the control module 10. In another embodiment of the present invention, the carbon tariff cost assessment system 100 is set up on a server and runs on a terminal device as an application program, and the terminal device includes but is not limited to a desktop computer, a laptop or a smart phone.

The carbon emission calculation module 20 obtains a carbon emission amount based on the product of an activity data value, an emission coefficient of the activity data, and a greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP) for manufacturing a unit product within the enterprise. In the embodiment of the present invention, the activity data value is a production energy consumption value, a raw material fuel usage value, or a production necessary activity value. The production energy consumption value refers to the energy consumption required in the process of manufacturing a unit product using a piece of equipment within the enterprise, and the raw material fuel usage value refers to the raw material usage, fuel usage, and material usage used in the manufacturing of a unit product within the enterprise. The emission coefficient and greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP) of the activity data can be pre-stored in the database module 60, or input into the carbon emission calculation module 20 by the user. The value of activities necessary for production refers to other greenhouse gases generated directly or indirectly due to the production of a unit of product, such as the amount of refrigerant used in fire extinguishers and air conditioners in the factory, the amount of acetylene used for cutting, and the use of equipment or auxiliary materials or the amount of activities necessary to support production.

In another embodiment of the present invention, an energy consumption detection module 70 is further included, which is coupled to the control module 10 and the device. The energy consumption detection module 70 is used to detect when the device is in a state. The total number or weight of unit products produced per unit time and a total production consumption, and the total production consumption is allocated to the total number of unit products to obtain the production energy consumption value, and the production energy consumption value is remotely transmitted to the carbon emission Compute Module 20. For example, a piece of equipment uses electricity to produce unit products. During the production process per hour, the equipment produces a total of 100 unit products (the total number of unit products) and uses 20 kilowatt hours of electricity (total production consumption). Therefore, using the above calculation method, divide 20 by 100 = 0.2, that is, the electricity required to produce a single unit of product is 0.2 (production energy consumption value). The unit time is not limited to every hour. In other embodiments, every day (24 hours) can also be used as the calculation standard or other period of time.

The emission factors refer to the different greenhouse gas emission intensities caused by each unit of energy, raw materials, fuel usage, product output or other operations. It can also be used to compare the effects of different fuels or activities. Regarding the impact on the environment, the emission coefficient can be one of the coefficients obtained from mass balance, the experience coefficient of the same process equipment, the coefficient provided by the manufacturer, the regional emission coefficient, the national emission coefficient and the international emission coefficient.

Greenhouse Gas Warming Potential (GWP)" is based on the IPCC assessment report, which combines carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and perfluorocarbons (PFCs). , sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and other different greenhouse gases' impact levels are converted into the same equivalent of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). For example, carbon dioxide (CO2) is 1, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is 22,800, methane (CH4) is 25, etc.

The capture module 30 can automatically capture and update the carbon tariff information of various countries or imports through the Internet, and obtain a unit product carbon emission standard value and a carbon tariff unit price of the corresponding unit product according to the carbon tariff information of various countries. The capture module 30 can obtain the carbon tariff information of various countries through text mining means or application programming interface (API) means, and after analyzing the file format of the carbon tariff information of various countries, it can capture the corresponding unit product carbon emission standard value and carbon tariff unit price in the carbon tariff information of various countries. The carbon tariff information of various countries comes from the cloud server constructed by the official of each country.

Among them, in the embodiment of the present invention, the acquisition module 30 uses text mining (Text Mining) to analyze the web pages and electronic files of carbon tariff information in various countries, and obtains the immediately updated and consistent file format, so as to The corresponding unit product carbon emission standard value and carbon tariff unit price are extracted, and added/updated and stored in the database module 60 for system use.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the capture module 30 can further parse the carbon tariff information content presented in the form of numbers, texts and pictures in a specific web page through an application programming interface (API), and obtain the corresponding unit product carbon emission standard value and carbon tariff unit price updated in real time, and store them in the database module 60 after adding/updating them for system use.

The cost acquisition module 40 has an input unit 41 and a cost generation unit 42. The input unit 41 allows the user to input a sales volume of the corresponding unit product. The cost generation unit 42 is used to calculate the carbon emission standard value and carbon emission amount of the unit product. A difference, and multiply the difference with the carbon tariff unit price and sales volume or weight to obtain an overall carbon tariff cost. Among them, the display module 50 is used to display the overall carbon tariff cost on the terminal device, and the database module 60 is used to store the overall carbon tariff cost.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the activity data value further includes an intensity of other gas emissions. The carbon tariff cost assessment system 100 further includes an other gas monitoring module 80 for real-time monitoring of the intensity of other gas emissions generated by the equipment during the production process and remotely transmitting it to the carbon emission calculation module 20. The intensity of other gas emissions does not refer to the intensity of carbon dioxide (CO2), but refers to the intensity of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and other gases to the environment. In the manufacturing process of some unit products, in addition to the main carbon dioxide (CO2), the aforementioned other greenhouse gases will also be emitted. In order to effectively calculate the carbon emissions of all greenhouse gases in the manufacturing process of the unit product, the other gas monitoring module 80 is used to monitor the intensity of other greenhouse gases emitted by the equipment. Accordingly, when the carbon emission calculation module 20 receives the data of the emission intensity of other gases, the carbon emission calculation module 20 can calculate the actual carbon emissions of the current unit product according to the aforementioned emission coefficient, greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP), production energy consumption value or raw material consumption value and other gas emission intensity data, which is conducive to more accurately calculating the aforementioned overall carbon tariff cost, so that enterprises can grasp the cost of selling unit products to other countries and effectively manage them.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which shows a step flow chart of a carbon tariff cost assessment method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The carbon tariff cost assessment method includes the following steps:

The carbon emission calculation step S1 is to obtain the carbon emission amount based on the product of the activity data value, emission coefficient and greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP) of the manufacturing unit product. Among them, the activity data value includes the production energy consumption value or the raw material consumption value. The production energy consumption value is provided by an energy consumption detection step. The energy consumption detection step detects the total number of unit products produced by the equipment in a unit time and the total production consumption, and allocates the total production consumption to the total number of unit products to obtain the production energy consumption value.

In addition, the activity data value further includes other gas emission intensity, which is provided by the other gas monitoring step or the database module 60 or input by itself. The other gas monitoring step monitors the other gas emission intensity generated by the equipment during the production process.

The retrieval step S2 is to retrieve the carbon tariff information of each country through the Internet, and obtain the unit product carbon emission standard value and the carbon tariff unit price of the corresponding unit product based on the carbon tariff information.

The cost obtaining step S3 is based on the difference between the carbon emission standard value per unit product and the carbon emission amount, and the difference is multiplied by the unit price of the carbon tariff and the sales volume or weight of the unit product to obtain the total carbon tariff cost.

In this way, through the aforementioned carbon tariff cost assessment system 100 and its assessment method, it is helpful for enterprises to immediately grasp the carbon tariff cost of selling unit products to other countries, and adjust the production strategy of unit products accordingly according to the carbon tariff collection regulations of each country. or operational strategies to face the risks of increased operating costs for companies due to climate change.

Although the present invention has been described with a preferred embodiment, those skilled in the art can make various modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The aforementioned embodiments are only used to illustrate the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. All modifications or changes that do not violate the spirit of the present invention fall within the scope of the patent application of the present invention.

100:Carbon Tariff Cost Assessment System 10:Control module 20:Carbon emission calculation module 30: Capture module 40: Cost acquisition module 41:Input unit 42: Cost generating unit 50:Display module 60: Database module 70:Energy consumption detection module 80:Other gas monitoring modules S1: Carbon emission calculation steps S2: Retrieval steps S3: Cost acquisition steps

[Figure 1] is a structural diagram of the carbon tariff cost assessment system of the present invention. [Figure 2] is a step flow chart of the carbon tariff cost assessment method of the present invention.

100:Carbon Tariff Cost Assessment System

10:Control module

20:Carbon emission calculation module

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40: Cost acquisition module

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Claims (10)

A carbon tariff cost assessment system includes: a control module; a carbon emission calculation module coupled to the control module, the carbon emission calculation module obtains a carbon emission amount according to the product of an activity data value, an emission coefficient and a greenhouse warming potential (GWP) of manufacturing a unit of product; a capture module coupled to the control module, the capture module is capable of automatically capturing and updating carbon tariff information of various countries through the Internet, and obtaining a carbon tariff corresponding to the unit of product based on the carbon tariff information. A unit product carbon emission standard value and a unit price of carbon tariff; and a cost acquisition module, which is coupled to the control module, and the cost acquisition module has an input unit and a cost generation unit, the input unit allows the user to input a sales volume or a weight corresponding to the unit product, and the cost generation unit is used to obtain a total carbon tariff cost based on a difference between the unit product carbon emission standard value and the carbon emission, and the product of the difference and the unit price of carbon tariff and the sales volume or the weight. The carbon tariff cost assessment system as described in claim 1, wherein the activity data value is a production energy consumption value, a raw material consumption value, or a production necessary activity value. The carbon tariff cost assessment system as described in claim 2, further comprising an energy consumption detection module coupled to the control module and a device, the energy consumption detection module being used to detect the device The total number of the unit product produced in a unit time and a total production consumption, and the total production consumption is allocated to the total number of the unit product to obtain the production energy consumption value and remotely transmitted to the carbon emission calculation Mods. The carbon tariff cost assessment system as described in request item 3, wherein the activity data value further includes an other gas emission intensity; the carbon tariff cost assessment system further includes an other gas monitoring model. A group for real-time monitoring of the intensity of other gas emissions generated by the equipment during the production process and remote transmission to the carbon emission calculation module. The carbon tariff cost assessment system as described in claim 1, wherein the carbon tariff information originates from a cloud server, and the capture module obtains the carbon tariff information through text mining means or application programming interface (API) means or input, and after analyzing the file format of the carbon tariff information, the unit product carbon emission standard value and the carbon tariff unit price in the carbon tariff information are captured. The carbon tariff cost assessment system as described in claim 1 further includes a display module and a database module, which are respectively coupled to the control module. The display module is used to display the overall carbon tariff cost. The database module is used to store the overall carbon tariff cost, and pre-store the emission coefficient and the greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP). The carbon tariff cost assessment system as described in claim 1, wherein the emission coefficient is one of the coefficient obtained from mass balance, the experience coefficient of the same process equipment, the coefficient provided by the manufacturer, the regional emission coefficient, the national emission coefficient and the international emission coefficient. A carbon tariff cost assessment method, which includes the following steps: a carbon emission calculation step, which is based on the product of an activity data value, emission coefficient and greenhouse gas warming potential (GWP) of manufacturing a unit of product to obtain a carbon emission quantity; the first acquisition step is to acquire the carbon tariff information of each country through the Internet, and obtain the carbon emission standard value of one unit of product and the carbon tariff unit price of the corresponding unit product based on the carbon tariff information; and a cost The obtaining step is to obtain an overall carbon based on the difference between the carbon emission standard value of the unit product and the carbon emission amount, and multiply the difference with the unit price of the carbon tariff and a sales volume or weight of the unit product. Tariff costs. The carbon tariff cost assessment method as described in claim 8, wherein the activity data value includes a production energy consumption value, a raw material consumption value or a production necessary activity value, and the production energy consumption value is provided by an energy consumption detection step, which detects the total number of the unit product produced by a device in a unit time and the total production consumption, and distributes the total production consumption to the total number of the unit product to obtain the production energy consumption value. The carbon tariff cost assessment method as described in claim 9, wherein the activity data value further includes an other gas emission intensity, the other gas emission intensity is provided by an other gas monitoring step, and the other gas monitoring step monitors the other gas emission intensity generated by the equipment during the production process.

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