FlareNet is pleased to congratulate Bradley Conrad, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, Quantification of Black Carbon Emissions from Gas Flaring and Standardization of the Sky-LOSA Measurement Technique, on September 11th, 2020. Bradley’s outstanding research has been central to FlareNet’s […]
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The FlareNet Network has had another student graduate with a M.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University. Congratulations to Nicolas (Nick) Brooker and his supervisor Professor Matthew Johnson. Nick’s research investigates the benzene destruction removal efficiency (DRE) and black carbon […]
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FlareNet researcher Timothy Sipkens recently won best poster at the 2019 European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Sipkens is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he holds also holds an NSERC and Killam research fellowships. […]
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Engineering Solutions to Minimize or Eliminate Gas Flaring Armed with equipment and assisted by Ecuador’s state oil company, Johnson and his team went off in search of the lighters—flares at the end of gas pipelines—to find out what exactly was […]
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The FlareNet Network has had two more students graduate with a Master’s of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University. Congratulations to Jasvardan Sethi and Scott Seymour and their supervisor Professor Matthew Johnson. Scott Seymour successfully defended his […]
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FlareNet is currently running its initial flare experiments at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel at Western University in London, Ontario. The main focus of this research under Theme 3 of FlareNet, is to complete the world’s first systematic experiments quantifying […]
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The FlareNet Network showcased its latest research at the sold-out PTAC Methane Emissions Reduction Forum; Merging Science, Policy and Technology, in Banff, Alberta. The two-day forum focused on various aspects of methane mitigation in the Canadian oil and gas sector […]
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FlareNet researchers and HQP attended both the 2017 Canadian GHG Emission Reduction Forum and FlareNet’s First Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Calgary, Alberta, October 23-24, 2017. Each fall, the Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC) organizes a day-long Air Issues Forum […]
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This past summer the FlareNet Network worked with its Board of Directors and industry partners to facilitate site access for field measurements in Canada. As a result, FlareNet researchers have just returned from its first-ever dedicated field measurement campaign […]
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FlareNet’s first major collaborative experimental campaign was completed at the Carleton University’s Flare Lab during May 20-28, 2017. The focus of this effort was on developing particulate measurement protocols under Theme 4 and while also attempting black carbon emission rate […]
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