A41F:
Methane Emissions: Moving from Measurements to Mitigation II Posters

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Session ID#: 23205

Session Description:
Recent measurement campaigns have vastly improved our understanding of methane emissions attributable to industrial activity. The combination of methane’s global warming potential and projected growth in natural gas use makes mitigation essential in the near future. Because decision making often happens under significant uncertainty, this session will focus on methane emissions studies that directly inform mitigation efforts. In particular, we are interested in research that leverages existing emissions measurements to identify specific mitigation needs, reconcile top-down and bottom-up emissions data, harmonize and quantify super-emitters, develop best practices, and formulate evidence-informed approaches to mitigation policy. In this regard, we solicit presentations that report on novel leak-detection methods and technology-equivalence demonstrations, cost-effective leak detection and repair (LDAR) practices, as well as regulatory and policy frameworks for emissions mitigation and monitoring. We are also interested in new field studies that report data from previously missing or poorly characterized sources in the literature.
Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Two-stream Convolutional Neural Network for Methane Emissions Quantification (279596)
Jingfan Wang1, Arvind P Ravikumar2, Mike McGuire3, Clay Bell3, Lyne P Tchapmi4 and Adam R Brandt5, (1)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Colorado State University Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Applying Machine Learning to Identify Super-Emitters from a Large-Scale Field Campaign in the Marcellus Shale (215896)
Dana Caulton1, Jessica M Lu1, Haley M. Lane1, Bernhard Buchholz2, Jeffrey P Fitts1, Levi Golston3, Xuehui Guo4, Qi Li5, James McSpiritt6, Da Pan4, Lars Preben Wendt4, Elie Bou-Zeid1 and Mark A Zondlo6, (1)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)National Metrology Institute of Germany, Braunschweig, Germany, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (4)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, (5)Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States
Leak localization and quantification with a small unmanned aerial system (252829)
Levi Golston1, Mark A Zondlo2, Michael B. Frish3, Nicholas F. Aubut3, Shuting Yang4 and Robert W Talbot5, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, (3)Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA, United States, (4)The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (5)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Fugitive Methane Emission Identification and Source Attribution: Ethane-to-Methane Analysis Using a Portable Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy Analyzer (245595)
David Kim-Hak, Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, United States and Derek Fleck, Picarro, Santa Clara, United States
Continuous time-resolved regional methane leak detection with on-line background estimation using a novel combination of dual frequency comb laser spectroscopy and atmospheric inversions (281777)
Caroline B Alden1, Sean Coburn2, Robert Wright3, Esther Baumann4, Kevin Cossel5, Colm Sweeney6, Subhomoy Ghosh7, Nathan Newbury8, Kuldeep Prasad9, Ian Coddington5 and Gregory B Rieker10, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder Laboratories, Boulder, United States, (5)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (8)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder Laboratories, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (10)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
The winter gap effect in methane leak detection and repair with optical gas imaging cameras (236373)
Thomas A. Fox1, Thomas Barchyn2 and Chris Hugenholtz2, (1)University of Calgary, Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada
Of Detection Limits and Effective Mitigation: The Use of Infrared Cameras for Methane Leak Detection (290101)
Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Jingfan Wang, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Mike McGuire, Colorado State University Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States, Clay Bell, Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Development of a life-cycle fugitive methane emissions model utilizing device level emissions and activity factors (230243)
Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Impact of Methane Leak Detection and Repair Programs: Determining Pre- and Post-Survey Emissions Profiles (292769)
Daniel Javier Roda-Stuart, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Direct Quantification of Methane Emissions Across the Supply Chain: Identification of Mitigation Targets (215947)
Derek Johnson, Robert Heltzel, Nigel Clark and Mahdi Darzi, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Optimization of Emissions Sensor Networks Incorporating Tradeoffs Between Different Sensor Technologies (300097)
Bethany Nicholson1, Katherine A Klise1, Carl D Laird1, Arvind P Ravikumar2 and Adam R Brandt3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Coupling of Large Eddy Simulations with Meteorological Models to simulate Methane Leaks from Natural Gas Storage Facilities (282333)
Kuldeep Prasad, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
Advancing Knowledge on Fugitive Natural Gas from Energy Resource Development at a Controlled Release Field Observatory (229264)
Aaron Graham Cahill1, Jessie Chao2, Olenka Forde3, Emily Prystupa3, K Ulrich Mayer3, T. Andrew Black4, Dwayne D Tannant5, Sean Crowe6, Steven Hallam6, Bernhard Mayer7, Rachel M Lauer8, Chelton van Geloven9, Laurie A Welch10, Carlos Salas11, Victor Levson12, David A Risk13 and Roger Daniel Beckie1, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)University of British Columbia, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (5)University of British Columbia, School of Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (6)University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (7)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada, (8)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada, (9)Ministry of Forests, British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, (10)BC Oil and Gas Commission, Kelowna, BC, Canada, (11)Geoscience BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (12)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (13)St. Francis Xavier University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada
Constructing a Spatially Resolved Methane Emission Inventory of Natural Gas Production and Distribution over Contiguous United States (265181)
Xiang Li, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, MN, United States, Mark Omara, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States, Peter J Adams, Carnegie Mellon University, Engineering and Public Policy, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Albert A Presto, Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Methane over South Asian region from GOSAT observations and ACTM simulations (267910)
Naveen Chandra1, Sachiko Hayashida2, Dr. Prabir Kumar Patra, PhD1 and Tazu Saeki3, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Aakash Project, Kyoto, Japan, (3)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Atmospheric Methane Enhancements Related with Natural Gas Usage in the Greater Houston Area (251547)
Nancy P Sanchez1, Chuantao Zheng2, Weilin Ye2, Beata Czader3, Daniel S Cohan4, Frank K Tittel5 and Robert J Griffin6, (1)Rice University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Rice University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States, (5)Rice University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, (6)Rice Univ-Civil Envir Engr, Houston, TX, United States

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