Plant Engineer: European consortium to take on fugitive methane emissions

Cuadrilla Resources, Veolia Environnement and National Grid are to work with a European consortium, led by the Centre for Carbon Measurement at NPL (the National Physical Laboratory), to develop and test methane instruments for monitoring shale gas extraction, waste water treatment plants and gas distribution.

Climate-KIC, Europe's largest public-private innovation partnership working to address the challenge of climate change, has awarded €1.266 million to FuME (Fugitive Methane Emissions), a new project that will help to identify fugitive methane emissions, known to have a serious impact on climate change. 

The project will develop methane measurement services, based on products including modelling tools, a laser-based open-path methane detection spectrometer and sensor networks. 

The project will see NPL working with ARIA Technologies, CEREA and LSCE to adapt instrumentation, measurement techniques and methodologies for the target sectors – with Cuadrilla Resources, Veolia Environnement and National Grid providing sites and operational expertise.  MORE