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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Life cycle assessment of shale gas in the UK |
| Location: | Abu Dhabi, U ARAB EMIRATES |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.685 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.685 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 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. |
| Keywords: | UK shale gas; life cycle assessment; hydraulic fracturing |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1503809 |
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