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Thursday, August 1, 2019

FlareNet Team Works to Minimize Gas Flaring in Ecuador

Engineering Solutions to Minimize or Eliminate Gas Flaring Armed with equipment and assisted by Ecuador’s state oil company, Johnson and his team went off in search of the lighters—flares at the end of gas pipelines—to find out what exactly was being burned. Johnson, who is known for his experimental research methods for measuring emissions... More

Saturday, June 15, 2019

EERL has Developed an Open-Source Software Tool, OCECgo, for Split Point Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of a Thermal-Optical Carbon Analyzer

A secondary output from EERL's recent laboratory effort to measure black carbon optical properties from lab-scale gas flares was the development of a software tool to support measurements of flare-generated carbon mass. One instrument that enables the measurement of carbon mass concentration in a particle-laden sample of air is the thermal-optical... More

Saturday, June 15, 2019

EERL Publication Highlights Enhanced Climate Implications of Flare Black Carbon

The radiative forcing effect of black carbon (BC, suggested to be second only to carbon dioxide) is highly sensitive to its source location and therefore atmospheric lifetime. For example, BC emitted in the Amazon rainforest is likely to be quickly rained out of the atmosphere while wintertime BC emitted in the Siberian Arctic is... More

Friday, June 14, 2019

New EERL Publication Details a Technique that Could Enable Real-Time Quantification of Fugitive Leaks

As a follow-up to previous work, Ph.D Graduate Carol A. Brereton and Prof. Matthew Johnson, along with co-author Lucy J. Campbell from the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Carleton University, have published a new research paper in Atmospheric Environment: X that investigates a technique that could enable near real-time detection and... More

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Congratulations to FlareNet’s Latest Graduates, Whose Research Aim’s to Provide More Accurate Quantitative Measurement Techniques

The FlareNet Network has had two more students graduate with a Master’s of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University.  Congratulations to Jasvardan Sethi and Scott Seymour and their supervisor Professor Matthew Johnson. Scott Seymour successfully defended his thesis (May 2nd, 2019), entitled, Spectroscopic... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

FlareNet Research Team Conducting First Systematic Experiments to Evaluate Impact of Turbulent (Gusting) Winds on Flare Efficiency

FlareNet is currently running its initial flare experiments at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel at Western University in London, Ontario. The main focus of this research under Theme 3 of FlareNet, is to complete the world’s first systematic experiments quantifying the impacts of wind turbulence scale and intensity on emissions from flares. The... More

Monday, December 3, 2018

FlareNet Panel and Student Posters Disseminate Latest Research and Highlight Vibrant Partnerships

The FlareNet Network showcased its latest research at the sold-out PTAC Methane Emissions Reduction Forum; Merging Science, Policy and Technology, in Banff, Alberta. The two-day forum focused on various aspects of methane mitigation in the Canadian oil and gas sector in an effort to reach the 2025 methane emissions reductions targets. Flaring is... More

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

FlareNet Presents Latest Research on Mitigating Methane and Black Carbon to the World Bank

FlareNet Network Director, Professor Matthew Johnson provided a research seminar to delegates from the World Bank in Washington, D.C. on November 20, 2018.  Johnson’s research focused on mitigating methane and black carbon emissions from upstream oil and gas developments. Both methane and black carbon are short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs),... More

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Carleton Researchers Determine Mitigating Alberta Methane is Surprisingly Cost-Effective, Far Cheaper than Carbon Price Targets

A study published today by Carleton University’s David Tyner and Matthew Johnson in the prestigious journal Environmental Science and Technology reveals broad opportunities to mitigate methane emissions in Alberta’s oil and gas industry in a cost-effective way. Through detailed analysis of mitigation potential at nearly 10,000 individual... More

Friday, September 21, 2018

Prime Minister Trudeau learns about novel emissions measurement technology developments in Carleton – Natural Resources Canada Partnership

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi toured CanmetENERGY’s Devon Research Centre in Alberta, which is the test site for a novel emissions measurement technology being developed by Carleton’s Energy and Emissions Research Lab (EERL). The CanmetENERGY facility focuses on technologies and... More

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Innovative Approaches to Detecting and Quantifying Fugitive Emissions

Ph.D. candidate Carol A. Brereton and Professor Matthew Johnson have published a new research paper in Atmospheric Environment that investigates an innovative approach to finding and measuring fugitive leaks within oil and gas facilities.  Also co-authored with EERL alum Ian Joynes and Prof. Lucy Campbell in Carleton's Mathematics Department,... More

Monday, February 26, 2018

FlareNet Poised to Support European Union’s Action on Black Carbon in the Arctic

Black carbon (BC) is the key component of particulate matter emitted from inefficient combustion and is regarded as the second-most important direct climate forcer after carbon dioxide due to its strongly absorbing nature.  With estimates of global flared volumes almost reaching 150 billion cubic metres in 2016, BC emissions from flaring are of... More

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