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- 4GHG Emissions
- 3Lignocellulosic Biomass
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- 2Energy Consumption
- 2Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- 12Kumar, Amit
- 4Canter, Christina E.
- 3Nimana, Balwinder S.
- 3Zhang, Hao
- 2Ali, Babkir
- 2Di Lullo, Giovanni
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A life cycle assessment of OME (oxymethylene ether) synthesis from biomass-derived syngas as a diesel additive
Download2017-01-01
Mahbub, Nafisa, Oyedun, Adetoyese Olajire, Kumar, Amit, Oestreich, Dorian, Arnold, Ulrich, Sauer, Jörg
The life cycle energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission performances of forest biomass-derived oxymethylene ether (OME) synthesis used as a diesel additive are analyzed in this study. OME, a new alternative liquid fuel, has great miscibility with conventional fuels like diesel. OME...
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A well-to-wire life cycle assessment of Canadian shale gas for electricity generation in China
Download2016-01-01
Raj, Ratan, Ghandehariun, Samane, Kumar, Amit, Linwei, Ma
China relies heavily on coal for power generation, and the demand for coal in a country of this size makes China the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter; hence China is pursuing greener pathways for power generation. Importing shale gas in the form of LNG from Canada is one such pathway. It...
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Development of Life Cycle Water-Demand Coefficients for Coal-Based Power Generation Technologies
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This paper aims to develop benchmark coefficients for water consumption and water withdrawals over the full life cycle of coal-based power generation. This study considered not only all of the unit operations involved in the full electricity generation life cycle but also compared different...
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2016-01-01
The key objective of this paper is to develop a benchmark for water demand coefficients of the complete life cycle of natural gas-fired power generation. Water demand coefficients include water consumption and water withdrawals for various stages of natural gas production as well as for power...
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Energy balance and greenhouse gas emissions of production and sequestration of charcoal from agricultural residues
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Thakkar, Jignesh, Kumar, Amit, Ghatora, Sonia, Canter, Christina E.
Agricultural residues (wheat/barley/oat straw) can be used to produce charcoal, which can then be either landfilled off-site or spread on the agricultural field as a means for sequestering carbon. One centralized and five portable charcoal production technologies were explored in this paper. The...
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Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the recovery and extraction of crude bitumen from Canada's oil sands
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Nimana, Balwinder S., Canter, Christina E., Kumar, Amit
A model- FUNNEL-GHG-OS (FUNdamental ENgineering PrinciplEs- based ModeL for Estimation of GreenHouse Gases in the Oil Sands) was developed to estimate project-specific energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in major recovery and extraction processes in the oil sands, namely...
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Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in upgrading and refining of Canada’s oil sands products
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Nimana, Balwinder S., Canter, Christina E., Kumar, Amit, Oil Sands, Upgrading, Refining, SCO, Bitumen, Dilbit
A model- FUNNEL-GHG-OS (FUNdamental ENgineering PrinciplEs- based ModeL for Estimation of GreenHouse Gases in the Oil Sands)based on fundamental engineering principles was developed to estimate the specific energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) for upgrading bitumen to produce...
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Evaluation of uncertainty in the life cycle assessment of well-to-tank and combustion greenhouse gas emissions of various transportation fuels
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Di Lullo, Giovanni, Zhang, Hao, Kumar, Amit
Growing concern over climate change has created pressure on the oil and gas industry to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). There have been multiple well-to-tank + combustion (WTT+C) studies that have examined various crude oils in an attempt to determine their GHG emission intensities....
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Life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s oil sands derived transportation fuels
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Nimana, Balwinder S., Canter, Christina E., Kumar, Amit
A comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) for transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel) derived from Canada’s oil sands was conducted, and all the current possible pathways from bitumen extraction to use in vehicles were explored. Authors, in earlier studies, have presented the...
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2016-01-01
Wong, Alain, Zhang, Hao, Kumar, Amit
Purpose Governments around the world encourage the use of biofuels through fuel standard policies that require the addition of renewable diesel in diesel fuel from fossil fuels. Environmental impact studies of the conversion of biomass to renewable diesel have been conducted, and life cycle...