Paule Lapeyre, Rodrigo Brenner Miguel, Michael Christopher Nagorski, Jean-Philippe Gagnon, Martin Chamberland, Caroline Turcotte, Kyle J Daun
Our research is motivated by the need to assess hydrocarbon emissions from flaring, which is a critical problem of global significance. For example, recent studies have shown that methane destruction efficiency of flaring from upstream oil may be significantly lower than the commonly-assumed figure of 98%; work by Plant et al.1 1 G. Plant, E. A. Kort, A. R. Brandt, Y. Chen, G. Fordice, A. M. Gorchov Negron, S. Schwietzke, M. Smith and D. Zavala-Araiza, "Inefficient and unlit natural gas flares both emit large quantities of methane," Science , vol...
February 20, 2024: Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association