Our Webinars
Gas Mapping LiDARTM Airborne Methane Leak Detection and Emissions Monitoring
We had a webinar with Bridger Photonics, Inc. (Bridger) about Gas Mapping LiDARTM (GML), an airborne methane emission monitoring technology developed by Bridger to detect, localize, and quantify methane emission from all segments of the natural gas value chain – production, transmission, and distribution. In this seminar, we provided an overview of the GML technology, presented results from performance validation testing, and described how GML is deployed for emissions monitoring surveys within the SoCalGas service area.
Speakers: Mike Thorpe is the CTO of Bridger Photonics, Inc. He received his PhD in Laser Physics from the University of Colorado in 2009 and specializes in various fields of laser measurement technology including remote sensing, lidar, molecular spectroscopy, and trace gas detection. Mike currently leads the development of Bridger’s Gas Mapping LiDARTM and Flux Curtain technologies for detecting, localizing, and quantifying methane emissions throughout the natural gas value chain.
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Thermal Particle Fluid for Commercial & Industrial Emissions Reductions
We had a webinar with GTI about an innovative Thermal Particle Fluid (TPF) that can recover, store, and transport heat for large commercial and industrial processes. By recovering and reusing waste heat, TPFs can reduce fuel demand for large process heat systems, resulting in lower combustion emissions and decreased customer costs. TPF systems could also allow commercial and industrial customers to integrate solar thermal heat resources, further reducing fuel demand and emissions.
In this webinar, we introduce GTI’s TPF technology and the role that particle transport and recovery can play in lowering GHG profiles in existing natural gas infrastructure. We also discuss the recent work that GTI completed with assistance from SoCalGas, California Energy Commission (CEC), and Advanced Research Project Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to test and demonstrate the TPF system at UC Merced. The next phase of research involves a field demonstration of the TPF system in a process heating application in Southern California.
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Decarbonizing Steel Production with Green Hydrogen
We partnered with University of California, Irvine (UCI) on a webinar about a new $5.7 million effort with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop novel, renewable and more efficient manufacturing processes for steel production. The project seeks to prove that renewable hydrogen, produced via high-temperature, solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOEC), powered by wind and solar resources, can successfully be integrated into steel manufacturing processes.
In this webinar, Dr. Jack Brouwer and Dr. Luca Mastropasqua of UCI discussed how the collaboration with Italy's Politecnico di Milano and Laboratorio Energia Ambiente Piacenza (LEAP) and U.S. companies FuelCell Energy, Hatch, and SoCalGas will integrate SOECs with direct reduced iron (DRI) technology to completely decarbonize steel production.
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