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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 49, 期 5, 页码 3219-3227出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es5052809
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- Access Midstream
- Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
- Hess Corporation
- Southwestern Energy
- Williams Corporation
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- Bill and Susan Oberndorf
- Robertson Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- TomKat Charitable Trust
- Walton Family Foundation
Facility-level methane emissions were measured at 114 gathering facilities and 16 processing plants in the United States natural gas system. At gathering facilities, the measured methane emission rates ranged from 0.7 to 700 kg per hour (kg/h) (0.6 to 600 standard cubic feet per minute (scfm)). Normalized emissions (as a % of total methane throughput) were less than 1% for 85 gathering facilities and 19 had normalized emissions less than 0.1%. The range of methane emissions rates for processing plants was 3 to 600 kg/h (3 to 524 scfm), corresponding to normalized methane emissions rates <1% in all cases. The distributions of methane emissions, particularly for gathering facilities, are skewed. For example, 30% of gathering facilities contribute 80% of the total emissions. Normalized emissions rates are negatively correlated with facility throughput. The variation in methane emissions also appears driven by differences between inlet and outlet pressure, as well as venting and leaking equipment. Substantial venting from liquids storage tanks was observed at 20% of gathering facilities. Emissions rates at these facilities were, on average, around four times the rates observed at similar facilities without substantial venting.
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