Development of a regionalized framework to evaluate high waste gas efficiency incinerators

开发评估高废气效率焚烧炉的区域化框架

• 批准号: 508885-2017
• 负责人: Samson, Réjean
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=639538
• 关键词: Development; regionalized; framework; evaluate; waste

Natural gas venting and flaring contributes significantly to Canadian greenhouse gas emissions. In 2013, itrepresented 5% of the national emissions and 21% of the oil and gas industry emissions. Moreover, gas ventingand flaring are sources of pollutant emissions including methane, particulate soot, sulfur compounds, unburnedfuel and other by-products of combustion that can affect human health, livestock and the environment. Themain reason for gas venting and flaring are the lack of economic incentives and technical constraints. Indeed,low volumes or quality of gas extracted with oil cannot justify costly capital investments required byconventional techniques to process it. New technologies are however being developed to improve gascombustion and mitigate environmental issues related to gas venting and flaring. This is the core business ofQuestor with its clean combustion units. In this project, it is proposed to evaluate the environmental andeconomic performances of the Questor combustion technologies. The project is organized in three parts. First,air quality data collected by Questor before and after installing an high efficiency incinerator will be used tovalidate a new regionalized impact assessment method. Second, a framework compatible with the life cycleassessment method will be developed to enable implementing these regionalized data and the validatedmethod. Then, the new regionalized LCA method will be used for the environmental assessment and aneconomic analyses will be conducted in parallel. The knowledge generated in the project will provide a cleareranalysis of the added value of Questor technologies and contribute to their deployment in Canada and abroad.On the long term, it is envisaged to include social indicators in the evaluation of Questor incinerators and toidentify the parameters that mainly influence their added value depending on the context of the oil extractionsite.

天然气的排放和燃烧是加拿大温室气体排放的主要原因。2013年，它占全国排放量的5%，占石油和天然气行业排放量的21%。此外，气体排放和燃烧是污染物排放的来源，包括甲烷、颗粒烟尘、硫化合物、未燃烧的燃料和其他燃烧副产品，可能影响人类健康、牲畜和环境。瓦斯放空燃烧的主要原因是缺乏经济激励和技术约束。事实上，用石油开采的天然气的低产量或低质量并不能证明用传统技术处理天然气所需的昂贵资本投资是合理的。然而，新技术正在开发，以改善天然气燃烧并减轻与天然气排放和燃烧有关的环境问题。这是Quebec清洁燃烧装置的核心业务。在本项目中，建议对Question燃烧技术的环境和经济性能进行评估。该项目分为三个部分。首先，Question在安装高效焚烧炉前后收集的空气质量数据将用于验证一种新的区域化影响评估方法。第二，将制定一个与生命周期评估方法兼容的框架，以便能够实施这些区域化数据和经过验证的方法。然后，将新的区域化LCA方法用于环境评价，并进行经济分析。该项目所产生的知识将对Question技术的附加值进行清晰的分析，并有助于其在加拿大和国外的应用。从长远来看，设想将社会指标纳入Question焚烧炉的评估中，并根据石油开采现场的情况确定主要影响其附加值的参数。