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Spring 2019

Mohsen Safaei

There is increased focus on reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to reduce global warming. Combustion of fossil fuels are a key contributor to emissions of GHG. Alberta is the largest hydrocarbon base in North America due to its oil sands deposit. Bitumen from oil sands is refined to...

2016-01-01

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....

Spring 2021

Cabling, Ludwig Paul B

Municipal sewage contains significant embedded resources in the form of chemical and thermal energy. Recent developments in sustainable technology has pushed for the integration of resource recovery from household wastewater to achieve net zero energy consumption and carbon neutral communities....

2015-01-01

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...

Fall 2024

Wu, Qifan

Industrial hemp is a versatile crop producing nutrient-rich hempseed and a large quantity of biomass. Bast fibre and hurd are excellent materials derived from hemp straw, while bioactive ingredients are extracted from flower heads and leaves. The environmental impacts associated with hemp...

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...

2015-01-01

Patel, Madhumita, Zhang, Xiaolei, Kumar, Amit

Bioenergy derived from biomass provides a promising energy alternative and can reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated from fossil fuels. Biomass-based thermochemical conversion technologies have been acknowledged as apt options to convert bioresources into bioenergy; this bioenergy...

2017-01-01

Di Lullo, Giovanni, Zhang, Hao, Kumar, Amit

Many studies have calculated deterministic point estimates of well-to-combustion (WTC) emissions of transportation fuels from crude oil in an attempt to determine which crude oils have lower or higher emissions. However, there is considerable variation in the published results, resulting in...