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    Tonne of oil equivalent

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    The tonne of oil equivalent (toe) is a unit of energy defined as the amount of energy released
    by burning one tonne of crude oil. It is approximately 42 gigajoules or 11,630 kilowatt hours,
    although as different crude oils have different calorific values, the exact value is defined by
    convention; several slightly different definitions exist. The toe is sometimes used for large
    amounts of energy.

    Multiples of the toe are used, in particular the megatoe (Mtoe, one million toe) and the
    gigatoe (Gtoe, one billion toe). A smaller unit of kilogram of oil equivalent (kgoe) is also
    sometimes used denoting 1/1000 toe.

    Contents
    1 Definitions
    2 Conversion factors
    3 Derived units
    4 See also
    5 References
    6 External links

    Definitions
    The International Energy Agency defines one tonne of oil equivalent (toe) to be equal to:[1]

    1 toe = 11.63 megawatt-hour (MWh)


    1 toe = 41.868 gigajoules (GJ)
    1 toe = 10 gigacalorie (Gcal) using the international steam table calorie (calIT) and not the
    thermochemical calorie (calth)[2]
    1 toe = 39,683,207.2 british thermal unit (BTU)
    1 toe = 1.42857143 tonne of coal equivalent (tce)

    Conversion into other units:

    1 toe = 7.33 barrel of oil equivalent (boe)[3]

    Some other sources and publications use divergent definitions of toe, for example:

    1 toe = 10.7 gigacalorie (Gcal) using the thermochemical calorie[2]


    1 toe = 41.85 gigajoules (GJ)[4]
    1 toe = 44.769 gigajoules (GJ) based on using thermochemical calorie (calth)[2]
    1 toe = 39,683,205.411 british thermal unit (BTU)[citation needed]

    Conversion factors
    1 barrel of oil equivalent (boe) contains approximately 0.136 toe (i.e. there are
    approximately 7.4 boe in a toe).[5]
    1 t diesel = 1.01 toe
    1 m3 diesel = 0.98 toe
    1 t petrol = 1.05 toe
    1 m3 petrol = 0.86 toe
    1 t biodiesel = 0.86 toe
    1 m3 biodiesel = 0.78 toe
    1 t bioethanol = 0.64 toe
    1m3 bioethanol = 0.51 toe[6]
    1 MWh = 0.086 toe [7] (therefore 1 toe = 11630.0 kWh) [8]
    at thermal power plant, 1 MWh generated with 0.22 toe fuel or 0.39 MWh with 0.086
    toe[9] (39% thermal to electrical conversion efficiency)

    Tonne of oil equivalent should be used carefully when converting electrical units. For
    instance, BP's 2007 report used a factor of 38% efficiency (the average efficiency of OECD
    thermal generating units in 2006), or roughly 16 GJ per toe, when converting kilowatt-hours
    to toe.[10]

    Derived units
    For multiples of the tonne of oil equivalent, it is more usual to speak of millions of tonnes of
    oil equivalent; kilotonne of oil equivalent (ktoe).

    Multiple Name Symbol


    3
    10 kilotonne of oil equivalent ktoe
    6
    10 million tonnes of oil equivalent Mtoe

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