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Landfill Methane Emission Monitoring
Methane (CH4) plays a critical role in the radiation balance and chemistry of the atmosphere. The major anthropogenic sources are anaerobic production from landfills, ruminant animals and their waste, release from the mining and use of fossil fuel, burning of biomass, etc.. On average, over the global scale, landfill methane emissions contribute between 10-19% of the anthropogenic methane burden ...
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Speakers announced for Methane Emissions Conference
High profile speakers from 13 different countries will present at this year’s Industrial Methane Emissions Conference, which will take place alongside PEFTEC 2017 in Antwerp on 29th and 30th November. Running over 2 days, the Conference will address themes such as anthropogenic methane emission sources; the assessment of uncontrolled and controlled emissions; current measurement methods; ...
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Encino Environmental Receives Patent for Mobile Systems for Monitoring Emissions
Patent approved for Encino’s mobile continuous emissions monitoring units for measuring methane intensity and other elements Mobile units provide for rapid deployment of high-definition, intelligent visual gas monitoring cameras to remote locations Portability makes real-time continuous emissions monitoring economical for Energy, Landfill, Real Estate, Municipalities, Agricultural and other ...
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Encino Environmental Services Introduces Enviromech™ Composite Thief Hatch for Reducing Emissions from Storage Tanks into the Environment
Enviromech™ composite thief hatches for production liquid storage tanks are engineered to aerospace-grade tolerances and are made from durable composites that resist corrosion, providing mechanical integrity performance. Breakthrough materials and design provides a practical, immediate, and inexpensive way to reduce emissions Manufactured and assembled in USA – AS 9100/ISO:9001 Long-term ...
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Kairos Aerospace Supports Global Initiative to Eliminate
Kairos Aerospace, the leading oil and gas industry partner for methane reduction and member of The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) Climate Investments portfolio since 2018, today announced its support of the OGCI Aiming for Zero Methane Emissions Initiative. The initiative joins leading global oil and gas companies to establish an all-in approach that targets methane emissions through a ...
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Monitoring methane emissions from agriculture and dairy farming
Methane (CH4) is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted from human activities. In 2014, CH4 was responsible for around 11 percent of all US greenhouse gas emissions caused by human actions. Methane is emitted by a range of natural sources such as marshlands, leakage from natural gas systems and livestock farming [1]. Domestic livestock such as cattle, sheep and goats, produce ...
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Biogas leaks found fast
Geotech recently contacted users of its gas leak finder to check its performance. Introduced to help AD plant operator safety, retain valuable gas, minimise odour and maintain licence compliance, the Geotech TDL-500 also has a GPS option which helps in landfill and pipeline gas leak finding. The tunable laser diode of the TDL-500 detects methane (CH4) at 1 ppm and is ATEX certified. A ...
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Study on Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Systems Indicates New Priorities
A new study published in the journal Science says that the total impact of switching to natural gas depends heavily on leakage of methane (CH4) during the natural gas life cycle, and suggests that more can be done to reduce methane emissions and to improve measurement tools which help inform policy choices. Published in the February 14 issue of Science, the study, “Methane Leaks from North ...
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Measuring the methane component of GHG emissions
With recent increases in global methane emissions, international efforts are underway to monitor and control the emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG). Following the success of the inaugural Industrial Methane Measurement (IMM) Conference in 2017, the second IMM will take place in 2019 to address this vitally important issue. The IMM conference will run alongside the PEFTEC 2019 ...
By Siemens AG
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Obama presents climate change as hazard to your health
President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment, but also to their health. Obama on Tuesday was to announce a series of steps that private entities like Google and Microsoft are taking to better prepare the nation's health systems for the inevitable effects of a warmer, more erratic climate. He was to be joined at Howard University ...
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Major Investor Coalition Pushes EPA To Adopt ‘Robust` Methane Regulations
A coalition of investors with more than $300 billion in assets asked the Environmental Protection Agency in an Oct. 9 letter to develop “robust” methane emissions regulations for the oil and gas industry. National standards will build investor confidence that natural gas is appropriately regulated and will prevent methane emissions that contribute to climate change, the letter to EPA ...
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Methane: satellite data may improve emissions estimates
Greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories are significantly underestimating methane emissions from a region in the southwest of the United States, and potentially elsewhere, a new study has found. The authors of the study suggest that satellite data could be used to identify and quantify new sources of methane, such as fracking. Inventories of estimated GHG emissions, which are used by policymakers to ...
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New research projects for improved regulatory modelling
Organisations which protect air quality need rapid and robust ways to assess the pollution impacts of industrial activities. The UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Environment Agency (EA) commission research to improve regulatory modelling techniques. CERC are working on several research projects for both organisations as part of Defra’s Research ...
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Scientists question EPA estimates of greenhouse gas emissions
The approach the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural anaerobic lagoons that treat manure contains errors and may underestimate methane emissions by up to 65%, according to scientists from the University of Missouri. Anaerobic lagoons treat manure on some animal feeding operations prior to application to crops as a fertilizer. ...
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Minimizing Methane Release
“Methane emissions from cows are decreasing, but not at the pace which the agricultural sector and the government agreed. The project, Reduced methane emission of dairy cows (ME001), will provide insights that enable targeted interventions for a 30% reduction of greenhouse gasses in the Netherlands by 2020”, explains prof. Johan van Arendonk in an interview for the Annual Report 2013 ...
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USDA Awards EDF Grant to Quantify Voluntary GHG Emissions Reductions on Arkansas, California Rice Farms
Environmental Defense Fund, in partnership with Winrock International, the California Rice Commission and the leading Arkansas rice industry associations and producers, will receive a $1.1 million USDA Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to demonstrate best practices for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice production in Arkansas and California. Growers in Arkansas, the largest rice ...
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Laser gas detection success for Anglian Water Services
Anglian Water Services (AWS) wanted to quantify methane emissions from their wastewater treatment processes. As these are less well understood and less well defined than indirect carbon emissions associated with electricity use, they set up a project to locate and quantify emissions from the processes at a wastewater treatment works. This was led by the in-house Innovation Team which undertakes ...
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Picarro Unveils the Industry´s First Real-Time Mobile Geo-Informatics Platform for Quantifying Methane Emissions Across Natural Gas Production Fields
CERA Week 2013-- Picarro Inc. (Twitter: @Picarro), today announced Picarro Surveyor™for natural gas emissions, the world's first mobile and cloud processing platform for measuring fugitive methane emissions across an entire natural gas production field. The new solution allows natural gas producers and hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") engineering firms to accurately identify and quantify ...
By Picarro, Inc
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European consortium to combat methane emissions
The Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is leading a European consortium to develop and test new methane measurement instruments for shale gas extraction, municipal waste water treatment plants and gas distribution. The consortium includes Cuadrilla Resources, Veolia Environnement and National Grid. Climate-KIC, Europe's largest public-private innovation ...
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Second phase of Oil and Gas Methane Partnership launched
Over 62 oil and gas companies have signed up to the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), which aims to reduce the industry’s methane emissions by 45% by 2025, and between 60 and 75% by 2030. OGMP 2.0, which builds on the original framework launched at the UN Climate Summit in 2014, provides a reporting framework for methane emissions in the sector, that will make it easier to ...
By IPIECA
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