methane emissions control Articles
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Methane Emission Control: A Greener Oil & Gas Industry Post Covid-19
Global spending on oil and gas production dropped historically in 2020, by an estimated 10%, with demand for fuel and travel dramatically decreasing across the globe. Although oil prices have begun to slowly increase since November, they are expected to remain below pre-pandemic levels for some time. However, investment in renewables and other clean energy is increasing, meaning emission control ...
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Actively aerated methanobiofilters to control methane emissions from landfills
Methane (CH4) capture at sanitary landfills for energy recovery is capable of reducing the impact of CH4 on the global atmospheric carbon budget. However, gas capture may only be viable where gas quantities are high enough to warrant economical energy production. Considering the potential global warming impacts, there is a need to identify alternative methods to control landfill CH4 emissions to ...
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Options to Reduce Methane Emissions
This study analyses methane emissions in the EU and strategies to control them. It considers options for the reduction of emissions from each of the main source sectors, agriculture, waste, coal mining and the oil and gas industry, and assesses costs and applicability of the mitigation options available to produce cost curves for reducing emissions. The study also makes projections of methane ...
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Polish gas from Polish coal: environmental benefits
The development of coalbed methane gas from Polish coal offers a significant opportunity to reduce noxious pollutant emissions associated with coal combustion. A review of energy supply and consumption within Poland, and of available coalbed methane resources, indicates that use of coalbed methane could eliminate 40-60 million tonnes of sulfur dioxide and particulates from the atmosphere, save ...
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Kyoto mistakes
The Kyoto Protocol conflicts with a rational view of what short-term climate policy should achieve. Chosen emission reduction targets conflict with individual and social interests, and will therefore be hard to reach. Possibilities to cheat on the agreement are plentiful. Methane emission reduction may help to meet the short-term aims, but does not contribute to the ultimate objective.Keywords: ...
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Case Study - Pilot-Scale Mitigation of Methane and H2S Emissions
Stratus was demonstrated to intercept, capture, and oxidatively treat methane and reduced sulfur emissions at the pilot-scale under site conditions. Reduce odour and GHG emissions by 70-100% Emssion compounds oxidatively converted to non-volatile species ...
By H2nanO
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Evaluation for the reduction and utilisation of coal mine methane emission with AHP method and decision tree
We used the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method to construct an evaluation index system for the reduction and utilisation of coal mine methane (CMM) emission. We used the system to evaluate some coal mines in China and other major coal–producing countries. To simplify the process of evaluation, we established an evaluation model based on the evaluation data and on a decision tree. We ...
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Welcome To the Dungeon!
The Qnergy Applications Engineering Team has created a state-of-the-art test lab that allows the validation of any electronic piece of equipment the scientific mind can think of. This lab is affectionately referred to as “The Dungeon”. In The Dungeon, the Qnergy Team has validated the operation of its PowerGen Stirling engine remote power system on some of the most challenging pieces ...
By Qnergy
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What President Obama’s national climate plan tells us about international climate negotiations
The world has been asking: How will the United States turn its climate change talk into real action? President Obama began to answer that question this week when he announced his National Climate Action Plan, laying out concrete steps to curb climate change at home and abroad, including a policy that would bar the U.S. from financing conventional coal plants internationally. The concrete steps ...
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Signs of Progress at World Economic Forum’s Climate Day
As I leave the World Economic Forum in Davos, I am filled with more hope than I have had for some time. For the first time, the meeting of many of the world’s pre-eminent political and business leaders held an official “Climate Day” to discuss the challenges posed by a warmer world. The day and the Forum’s several events and panels yielded encouraging talk—and the ...
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Mitigating methane emissions from passive landfill vents: a viable option for older closed landfills
This study investigated the use of biofilters to reduce methane emissions from landfill passive gas vents. Two biofilter designs were evaluated. The two filter designs achieved similar percent oxidation averages. The radial biofilter design, however, obtained a much higher methane oxidation rate. The higher surface area of flow in the radial biofilters decreased the methane influx leading to ...
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FIFA Word Cup - Case Study
Coca Cola, sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE), certified the three-day visit of the Cup to Greece as a Climate Neutral Event. Included within the calculations of the emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the transportation of the World Cup trophy, the press conference that took place on the 10th of April, and the promotional ...
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Strategy Paper for Reducing Methane Emissions
The Strategy Paper for reducing methane emissions,which has just been approved by the Commission, describes the contribution man-made methane emissions, both at the global and European level, are making to the greenhouse effect and global warming. Although the focus in the global climate debate has often been on CO2 emissions, the major greenhouse gas, it needs to be underlined that methane is ...
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Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions: EPA Regulations & Data Collection
U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently committed to very specific targets in the oil and gas sector. Their ambitious goal is to reduce methane emissions by 40-45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025. This target was reaffirmed on June 30 when Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto joined the commitment. The U.S. has already begun acting on these ...
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New Mandatory GHG Reporting for the Oil and Gas Industry
On January 14, 2015, the Obama Administration announced an update to its March 2014 “Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector” (Strategy). Within this announcement it was revealed that the Administration would be taking a host of future actions in order to achieve their methane reduction goals, including the following: Proposing and setting standards for ...
By All4 Inc.
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EPA Tightens Chokehold On A Bruised O&G
The Obama Administration is attacking one fuel at a time, the most recent being coal and natural gas, and now methane is next on the chopping block. Methane, a component of natural gas, is burned to produce heat and electricity for many end-users, making it an important fuel source worldwide. Obama’s latest focus on methane emissions however, serve as another addition to his collection of ...
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The Global Oil and Gas Methane Emission Debate – The OGI Angle
In early 2016, the US Environmental Protection Association (EPA) published the QuadOa regulations, designed to reduce the level of greenhouse gases (GHG) released into the atmosphere by the oil and gas industry. In early 2017, the implementation of these regulations is far less clear. Nonetheless, some clarity remains. Natural gas’s reputation as the ‘clean’ fossil fuel ...
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Proposed EPA Appendix K: Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) Camera Calibration and Maintenance
Optical Gas Imaging Camera Calibration and Maintenance Over the next few months, we will discuss aspects of the EPA’s proposed Appendix K and the advantages of Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) to Oil and Gas producers. Compared to gas detectors or “sniffers,” OGI cameras aim to significantly reduce methane and VOC emissions by detecting and visualizing the leak quickly and more ...
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Clearing the Air: Reducing upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Natural Gas Systems
Key findings: 1) Fugitive methane emissions from natural gas systems represent a significant source of global warming pollution in the U.S. Reductions in methane emissions are urgently needed as part of the broader effort to slow the rate of global temperature rise. 2) Cutting methane leakage rates from natural gas systems to less than 1 percent of total production would ensure that the climate ...
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Gassy Ponds May Hold Key to Alberta`s Oil-Sands Emissions Battle
(Bloomberg) — Alberta's battle to reduce oil sands' greenhouse gas emissions is taking aim at one of the industry's biggest environmental bugaboos: tailings ponds. While producers have focused on curbing methane from drilling operations, the ponds, designed to hold residue from mining operations, are among the largest sources of emissions for oil-sands miners, said Eric Newell, a former ...
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