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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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Energy efficiency improvement opportunities and associated greenhouse gas abatement costs for the residential sector
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Subramanyam, Veena, Kumar, Amit, Talaei, Alireza, Mondal, Md. Alam Hossain
Despite improvements, the residential sector is one of most energy-intensive sectors in the world and is the third largest consumer of energy across Canada, and in Alberta in particular. This study investigates opportunities to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)...
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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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Greenhouse gas abatement costs of hydrogen production from underground coal gasification (UCG)
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Verma, Aman, Olateju, Babatunde, Kumar, Amit
The demand for hydrogen is likely to increase in the next decade to satisfy the projected growth of the bitumen upgrading industry in western Canada. This paper presents greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement costs and the GHG abatement potential in producing hydrogen from underground coal gasification...
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2017-01-01
Subramanyam, Veena, Kumar, Amit, Ahiduzzaman, Md
This study was conducted to identify energy efficiency improvement options and assess these opportunities in terms of potential of energy savings and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation for the commercial and institutional sector. In addition, associated GHG abatement cost (GHGAC) curves were...
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2017-01-01
Kumar, Mayank, Olagire Oyedun, Adetoyese, Kumar, Amit
This study explores the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of wood chips to bio-crude followed by upgrading to diluents, which are used to transport bitumen through pipelines. In this study, we considered a 2000 dry t day-1 plant capacity with two scenarios. The first scenario uses hydrogen for...
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2015-01-01
Singh, Shikhar, Kumar, Amit, Jain, Siddharth
The production of biofuels (e.g., ethanol and biodiesel) requires a significant amount of water during feedstock production, transportation, and its conversion into biofuels. Therefore present study devoted to study the impact of biofuel production on water demand in Alberta. In scenario #1, it...
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Integrated techno-economic and environmental assessments of sixty scenarios for co-firing biomass with coal and natural gas
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Agbor, Ezinwa, Oyedun, Adetoyese Olajire, Zhang, Xiaolei, Kumar, Amit
Displacement of fossil fuel-based power through biomass co-firing could reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuels. In this study, data-intensive techno-economic models were developed to evaluate different co-firing technologies as well as the configurations of these...