Reference number : GC-2017-Q1-00443, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Samson, Réjean (École Polytechnique de Montréal), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Quebec|Québec, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for Universities, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les universités, program purpose english : Natural gas venting and flaring contributes significantly to Canadian greenhouse gas emissions. In 2013, it_x000D_
represented 5% of the national emissions and 21% of the oil and gas industry emissions. Moreover, gas venting_x000D_
and flaring are sources of pollutant emissions including methane, particulate soot, sulfur compounds, unburned_x000D_
fuel and other by-products of combustion that can affect human health, livestock and the environment. The_x000D_
main reason for gas venting and flaring are the lack of economic incentives and technical constraints. Indeed,_x000D_
low volumes or quality of gas extracted with oil cannot justify costly capital investments required by_x000D_
conventional techniques to process it. New technologies are however being developed to improve gas_x000D_
combustion and mitigate environmental issues related to gas venting and flaring. This is the core business of_x000D_
Questor with its clean combustion units. In this project, it is proposed to evaluate the environmental and_x000D_
economic performances of the Questor combustion technologies. The project is organized in three parts. First,_x000D_
air quality data collected by Questor before and after installing an high efficiency incinerator will be used to_x000D_
validate a new regionalized impact assessment method. Second, a framework compatible with the life cycle_x000D_
assessment method will be developed to enable implementing these regionalized data and the validated_x000D_
method. Then, the new regionalized LCA method will be used for the environmental assessment and an_x000D_
economic analyses will be conducted in parallel. The knowledge generated in the project will provide a clearer_x000D_
analysis of the added value of Questor technologies and contribute to their deployment in Canada and abroad._x000D_
On the long term, it is envisaged to include social indicators in the evaluation of Questor incinerators and to_x000D_
identify the parameters that mainly influence their added value depending on the context of the oil extraction_x000D_
site., program purpose french : Natural gas venting and flaring contributes significantly to Canadian greenhouse gas emissions. In 2013, it_x000D_
represented 5% of the national emissions and 21% of the oil and gas industry emissions. Moreover, gas venting_x000D_
and flaring are sources of pollutant emissions including methane, particulate soot, sulfur compounds, unburned_x000D_
fuel and other by-products of combustion that can affect human health, livestock and the environment. The_x000D_
main reason for gas venting and flaring are the lack of economic incentives and technical constraints. Indeed,_x000D_
low volumes or quality of gas extracted with oil cannot justify costly capital investments required by_x000D_
conventional techniques to process it. New technologies are however being developed to improve gas_x000D_
combustion and mitigate environmental issues related to gas venting and flaring. This is the core business of_x000D_
Questor with its clean combustion units. In this project, it is proposed to evaluate the environmental and_x000D_
economic performances of the Questor combustion technologies. The project is organized in three parts. First,_x000D_
air quality data collected by Questor before and after installing an high efficiency incinerator will be used to_x000D_
validate a new regionalized impact assessment method. Second, a framework compatible with the life cycle_x000D_
assessment method will be developed to enable implementing these regionalized data and the validated_x000D_
method. Then, the new regionalized LCA method will be used for the environmental assessment and an_x000D_
economic analyses will be conducted in parallel. The knowledge generated in the project will provide a clearer_x000D_
analysis of the added value of Questor technologies and contribute to their deployment in Canada and abroad._x000D_
On the long term, it is envisaged to include social indicators in the evaluation of Questor incinerators and to_x000D_
identify the parameters that mainly influence their added value depending on the context of the oil extraction_x000D_
site., agreement title english : Development of a regionalized framework to evaluate high waste gas efficiency incinerators, agreement title french : Development of a regionalized framework to evaluate high waste gas efficiency incinerators, agreement number : EGP, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2017-06-14, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019), additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2018-2019), owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada