Quantifying Emissions of Natural Gas Storage Tanks in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Vafi, Kourosh; Hopkins, Francesca M

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Quantifying Emissions of Natural Gas Storage Tanks in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

2025-01-01
By Vafi, Kourosh ; Hopkins, Francesca M

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Vafi, Kourosh ; Hopkins, Francesca M
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National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) ; University of California, Riverside. Center for Environmental Research and Technology
Corporate Contributors:

United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
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NCST-UCR-RR-25-04
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7922/G2ZS2TVT
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Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States;Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Edition:

Final Research Report (April 2021 – March 2023)
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National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) (UTC)
Abstract:

Natural gas provides an alternative to petroleum-based fuels as an energy source that is being more widely adopted across multiple sectors in California. The viability of natural gas depends on its total life cycle emissions, specifically of those of methane. This paper addresses the possibility of and reason for fugitive emissions of methane from the transportation sector by surveying and quantifying methane plumes from compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquified natural gas (LNG) storage tanks at vehicle fueling facilities in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. This project used methane plume images provided by airborne imaging spectroscopy, collected by NASA’s AVIRIS-NG mission, to identify large methane point sources originating from CNG and LNG infrastructure.
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69A3551747114
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