eprintid: 1503809
rev_number: 32
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datestamp: 2017-09-07 17:35:16
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creators_name: Tagliaferri, C
creators_name: Lettieri, P
creators_name: Chapman, C
title: Life cycle assessment of shale gas in the UK
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F43
keywords: UK shale gas; life cycle assessment; hydraulic fracturing
note: Copyright © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). - Conference paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2015), held on the 28 to 31 March 2015, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
abstract: The remarkable US growth of shale gas and the associated decrease in the US natural gas prices has catalysed an increasing interest of shale gas resource exploration in other areas of the world. Commercial drilling operations have not yet commenced, but exploration is taking place in some European countries, including the UK. Major environmental concerns, regarding the amount and the handling method of the emissions associated with hydraulic fracturing, the disposal of waste water and the low well productivity, have pushed some countries to ban exploration and trials. We contextualized the shale gas extraction to the UK condition where the estimate of recoverable gas has made the debate on shale gas highly interesting. We used the methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and estimated the environmental burden of shale gas production, processing and distribution at low pressure to the consumer. In this paper we have reported the detailed hot spot analysis of the impact of shale gas on the watersheds.
date: 2015-08
date_type: published
publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.685
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Proceedings Paper
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1115119
doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.685
lyricists_name: Lettieri, Paola
lyricists_name: Tagliaferri, Carla
lyricists_id: PLETT94
lyricists_id: CTAGL96
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Energy Procedia
volume: 75
pagerange: 2706-2712
pages: 7
event_location: Abu Dhabi, U ARAB EMIRATES
institution: 7th International Conference on Applied Energy – ICAE2015
issn: 1876-6102
editors_name: Yan, J
editors_name: Shamim, T
editors_name: Chou, SK
editors_name: Li, H
citation:        Tagliaferri, C;    Lettieri, P;    Chapman, C;      (2015)    Life cycle assessment of shale gas in the UK.                   Energy Procedia , 75    pp. 2706-2712.    10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.685 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.685>.       Green open access   
 
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