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“Environmental Modelling of Oil and Gas Upstream”

Khajehpour, Hossein | 2011

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 42246 (46)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Energy Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Sabouhi, Yadollah
  7. Abstract:
  8. Oil and gas upstream, is one of the major parts of the energy chain in the world. Processes of production, transportation, processing and conversion of energy carriers are the main parts of this sector. Process units of oil and gas upstream industry are some of most local and global pollution resources in the world. In this research, the consideration of the pollutions from the production, processing and conversion of fossil fuels sector and the optimization of the management choices of each pollutant is subjected. Consideration of the pollutants related to the upstream sector, pollution control and management choices, cost accounting of the environmental impacts, the methods of accounting the environmental costs in the decision making methods and the software and models which are capable to affect environmental costs in the economic decision making methods for optimization of the oil and gas upstream process unit chain, were the five stages used in this research. Definition and use of a conceptual model for demonstrating the sources of environmental impacts and the relations between the conversion blocks is done. In the produced model named as the “Energy-Environment Model (EEM)”, the information derived from the calculations based on the previous studies data and on site measurements were used to estimate the global and local pollutions and the corresponding economic values. According to the conventional costs and the energy and environmental externalities of each technology, the results of the model show that which technology and what pollution level seems to be the optimum one in each unit of the chain. In this research, as the other researches on environmental economic projects, there are some assumptions and uncertainties which minimizing these uncertainties to get more accurate results, may be the subject of future studies
  9. Keywords:
  10. Environment ; Modeling ; Pollution ; Economic Analysis ; Energy-Environment Modeling ; Oil and Gas Upstream

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