Simon is a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Energy and Emissions Research Laboratory with an interest in developing and implementing technologies for the continuous monitoring of emissions from the upstream oil & gas industry. His thesis work has concentrated on the development of an optical sensor, called the “VentX”, which can simultaneously measure the volume fraction and flow rate of methane, an important greenhouse gas. This sensor has been successfully deployed at multiple production sites in both Alberta and Saskatchewan, where it was used to quantify both casing gas and storage tank vents. Prior to joining the EERL Simon completed his Bachelor of Engineering at McGill University.
Read more: Researcher Spotlight – Simon Festa-Bianchet – The Energy and Emissions Research Lab (carleton.ca)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
- S.A. Festa-Bianchet, D.R. Tyner, S.P. Seymour, M.R. Johnson (2023) Methane Venting at Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) Facilities Is Significantly Underreported and Led by High-Emitting Wells with Low or Negative Value, Environmental Science & Technology, in press (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c06255)
- S.P. Seymour, S.A. Festa-Bianchet, D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2022) Reduction of Signal Drift in a Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy-based Methane Flux Sensor, Sensors, 22(16):6139 (doi: 10.3390/s22166139)
- S.A. Festa-Bianchet, S.P. Seymour, D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2022) A Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy-Based Methane Flux Sensor for Quantification of Venting Sources at Oil and Gas Sites, Sensors, 22(11), 4175 (doi: 10.3390/s22114175)