Quantification and Mitigation of Air Pollutant Emissions in the Upstream Oil and Gas Sector

该研究计划解决了在理解，测量和减轻上游能源行业污染物排放方面的基础研究挑战，这对加拿大和世界至关重要。 在高水平期刊上的重要研究贡献和出版物的引用记录，高素质人才的富有成效的培训以及向政府和行业直接传播成果的基础上，该提案制定了在未来五年内最大限度地发挥研究影响的短期和长期目标。 我的研究计划的最终目标是了解，量化，建模，并减轻与加拿大能源使用和生产相关的空气污染物排放。 发现补助金资金将直接支持HQP研究人员从事一系列雄心勃勃的，紧密结合的项目，以开发和应用新的诊断方法，进行定量测量研究，了解复杂的排放源，推进基于伴随的量化技术，为政策决策和法规提供基于科学的指导，并推动必要的缓解。 拟议的研究计划利用了广泛的先进实验和诊断能力，并通过与一系列国家和国际合作伙伴的积极合作得到加强，包括国家研究理事会，加拿大自然资源部，Clearstone工程有限公司，美国环境保护基金（EDF）和世界银行全球天然气燃烧减少伙伴关系（GGFR）。 从本质上讲，该研究计划是跨学科的，涵盖燃烧理论，湍流力学，应用光学，传热传质和公共政策等方面，为高素质人才的合作和培训提供了多种机会。 随着全球化石燃料消费量的持续增长，以绝对单位能源为基础的可再生能源消费量的增长速度超过了增长速度，任何改善空气质量和减缓气候变化的立即行动都必须从能源部门的工程和监管解决方案开始开始。 我的研究计划的目标是对齐，以最大限度地提高潜力的突破性进展，在新的诊断技术的发展，关键和难以测量的污染源的准确量化，污染物形成和排放的机制的基本见解，新的缓解战略的发展，并为法规的科学支持。 这项工作的成功对我们的环境健康、我们的经济以及确保HQP的可用性以应对这一领域的未来挑战至关重要。

This research program tackles fundamental research challenges in the understanding, measurement, and mitigation of pollutant emissions from the upstream energy industry, an area of critical importance to Canada and the World. Building on a cited record of significant research contributions and publications in high-ranking journals, fruitful training of highly-qualified personnel, and direct dissemination of results to government and industry, this proposal lays out short- and long-term objectives for maximizing research impacts over the next five years. The ultimate objectives of my research program are to understand, quantify, model, and mitigate airborne pollutant emissions associated with energy use and production in Canada. Discovery Grant funding will directly support HQP researchers working on a range of ambitious, closely integrated projects to develop and apply novel diagnostics, perform quantitative measurement studies, understand complex emission sources, advance adjoint-based quantification techniques, provide science-based guidance for policy decisions and regulations, and drive necessary mitigation. The proposed research program leverages a wide range of advanced experimental and diagnostic capabilities, and is strengthened through active collaborations with a range of national and international partners including National Research Council, Natural Resources Canada, Clearstone Engineering Ltd., United States Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the World Bank Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR). By nature the research program is interdisciplinary, covering aspects of combustion theory, turbulent fluid mechanics, applied optics, heat and mass transfer, and public policy, providing diverse opportunities for collaboration and training of highly qualified personnel. As global consumption of fossil fuels continues to rise, outpacing the increase in renewable energy consumption on an absolute unit of energy basis, any immediate actions to improve air quality and mitigate climate change must begin with engineering and regulatory solutions for the energy sector. The objectives of my research program are aligned to maximize potential for breakthrough progress in the development of novel diagnostic techniques, accurate quantification of critical and difficult to measure pollutant sources, fundamental insight into mechanisms of pollutant formation and emissions, development of new strategies for mitigation, and scientific support for regulations. Success in this endeavour is vital to the health of our environment, to our economy, and to the ensured availability of HQP to meet future challenges in this field.