Natural Gas Emissions and Leakage
Primary Research Goals:
Leaders: Adam Brandt Robert Jackson
- Methane sensor development
- Measurement and quantification
- Global methane sources and emissions
- Best Practices and Policies
Faculty & Researchers
Students
- Sahar El Abbadi: Post-doctoral researcher, leader of 2022 experiments
- Evan Sherwin: Post-doctoral researcher, helped perform experiments, writeup of prior year’s work
- Richard Chen: MS student, helped perform experiments, write-up of part of experimental work
Research Groups
Micro Structures & Sensors Lab - Group's research focus in the area of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) leverages silicon microfabrication techniques to create micro-devices that include ultra-stable timing references and high-performance sensors.
The Jackson Lab - Examines the different ways that people affect the Earth. Our projects combine basic science and policy solutions to issues such as climate change, energy extraction, and land use.
Assessment & Optimization Group - Focuses on building tools to reduce the environmental impacts of energy systems. One focus is on understanding greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from fossil energy systems. Also, we build optimization tools to improve the environmental and economic performance of energy systems.
Related Publications
- Bracci, J., Sherwin, E., Boness, N., & Brandt, A. (2023). Leveling the Playing Field: A Cost Comparison of Various Hourly- Reliable, Net-Zero Hydrogen Production Pathways. Nature Communications, 14, 7391. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2488892/v1
- Thurber, M. (2023). LNG exports and domestic gas use are not zero-sum. Energy for Growth Hubs. https://energyforgrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/LNG-exports-and-domestic-gas-use-are-not-zero-sum-3.pdf
- Rutherford, J., Sherwin, E., Chen, Y., Aminfard, S., & Brandt, A. (2023). Evaluating methane emission quantification performance and uncertainty of aerial technologies via high-volume single-blind controlled releases. EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5KQ0X
- Chen, Y., Sherwin, E., Berman, E. S., Jones, B., Gordon, M., Wetherley, E., Kort, E., & Brandt, A. (2022). Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin with a Comprehensive Aerial Survey. ACS Publications, 4317-4323.
- Liu, R., Ravikumar, A., Bi, X. T., Zhang, S., Nie, Y., Brandt, A., & Bergerson, J. (2021). Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Western Canadian Natural Gas: Proposed Emissions Tracking for Life Cycle Modeling. American Chemical Society.
- Boness PhD, N. (2021). The Interplay of Hydrogen and Natural Gas. Energy Dialogues.
- Thurber, M. (2021). Five Lessons for the Future of Natural Gas in Sub-Saharan Africa. Stanford Natural Gas Brief. https://ngi.stanford.edu/sites/ngi/files/media/file/ngi_brief_2021-05.pdf
- Field, R. J. S. C. C. (2020). Methane removal and atmospheric restoration.
- Ar, R. A. W. B. C. Z. B. (2020). "Good versus Good Enough?" Empirical Tests of Methane Leak Detection Sensitivity of a Commercial Infrared Camera.
- Al, G. S. P. A. R. V. E. (2019). Advancing Scientific Understanding of the Global Methane Budget in Support of the Paris Agreement.
- Al, F. J. O. A. H. P. P. P. E. (2019). Global Carbon Budget 2019.
- R., W. T. R. M. B. Z. S. B. (2019). Machine vision for natural gas methane emissions detection using an infrared camera. Applied Energy.
- Brandt, A. R. S. S. J. W. J. E. D. R.-S. C. B. D. Z. D. L. I. M. B. R. A. (2019). Single-blind inter-comparison of methane detection technologies - results from the Stanford/EDF Mobile Monitoring Challenge. Elementa.
- Brandt, A. R. S. S. J. W. J. E. D. R.-S. C. B. D. Z. D. L. I. M. B. R. A. (2019). Supplemental Material 2 Single-blind Inter-comparison of Methane Detection Technologies 3 - Results from the Stanford/EDF Mobile Monitoring Challenge. Elementa.
- Powell, J., Boness, N., Seamon, D. B., Chen, J., & Bracci, J. (2019). Workshop Brief: Decarbonizing Heavy-Duty Transportation. Stanford Energy.
- Grubert, E., & R.Brandt, A. (2019). Three considerations for modeling natural gas system methane emissions in life cycle assessment.
- Plata, D., Jackson, R., Vengosh, A., & Mouser2, P. (2019). More than a decade of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling research.
- Al, A. R. Z.-A. L. D. A. D. B. Z. B. A. E. (2018). Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain..
Natural Gas Emissions and Leakage
Annual Report
Stanford Natural Gas Initiative seed funded projects require annual submissions of brief technical progress reports and interim report summaries for active projects. Closed projects require a technical report and final report summary one year after the award close date.
Read the most recent interim report (Coming Soon)