There has been increased scrutiny in understanding the anthropogenic sources for methane emissions due to methane’s potency as a greenhouse gas [2]. There are two approaches for studying of methane emissions, emissions inventories (or ‘bottom up’ studies), and remote measurements of methane fluxes (or ‘top down’ studies). Emissions inventories calculate the leakage rates for fugitive methane ov...

[1] Lake sediments are ‘‘hot spots’’ of methane production in the landscape. However, regional and global lake methane emissions, contributing to the greenhouse effect, are poorly known. We developed predictions of methane emissions from easily measured lake characteristics based on measurements for 11 North American and 13 Swedish lakes, and literature values from 49 lakes. Results suggest tha...

Noncatalytic and nonoxidative conversion of methane in a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor is examined at different temperatures, gas residence times and input powers. In addition, the ratio of methane to helium as a diluant, is changed in the range of 0.6 to 1.8. Results show significant synergetic effects of plasma, temperature and helium on the methane conversion and C2+</s...

The alluvial aquifer adjacent to Norman Landfill, OK, provides an excellent natural laboratory for the study of anaerobic processes impacting landfill-leachate contaminated aquifers. We collected groundwaters from a transect of seven multilevel wells ranging in depth from 1.3 to 11 m that were oriented parallel to the flow path. The center of the leachate plume was characterized by (1) high alk...

Anaerobic microorganisms play key roles in the biogeochemical cycling of methane and non-methane alkanes. To date, there appear to be at least three proposed mechanisms of anaerobic methane oxidation (AOM). The first pathway is mediated by consortia of archaeal anaerobic methane oxidizers and sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) via "reverse methanogenesis" and is catalyzed by a homolog of methyl-co...

Methane is the second strongest anthropogenic greenhouse gas and its atmospheric burden has more than doubled since 1850. Methane concentrations stabilized in the early 2000s and began increasing again in 2007. Neither the stabilization nor the recent growth are well understood, as evidenced by multiple competing hypotheses in recent literature. Here we use a multispecies two-box model inversio...

introduction as reported by sabetghadam (2005), 53.4, 36.3, 1.1, 8.9, and 0.2% of total energy consumption in iran consisted of oil products, natural gas, coal, electricity energy, and modern energy sources, respectively. the modern energies included solar, biomass, wind and nuclear. the energy mix has been evolving towards clean energies. from 1966–2005, the contribution of natural gas increas...

abstract methane concentrations in kano municipality have been attributed to the burning of solid and fossil fuels and industrial processes. using an automatic gas sampling system, methane in the kano atmosphere was determined. its distribution in the municipality was skewed towards high frequency of low concentration with a mean and standard deviation of 0.61? 0.39 ?g/m3. similarly the distri...

BACKGROUND Livestock play an important role in carbon cycling through consumption of biomass and emissions of methane. Recent research suggests that existing bottom-up inventories of livestock methane emissions in the US, such as those made using 2006 IPCC Tier 1 livestock emissions factors, are too low. This may be due to outdated information used to develop these emissions factors. In this st...