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Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units in new or existing commercial and institutional buildings
Using funding from ERA, ATCO Gas will help offset the cost of incorporating Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technology in Commercial and Institutional buildings. CHP is an energy efficient technology that will use clean burning natural gas to provide electricity and heat. This will reduce GHG emissions and overall energy costs for customers. This energy…
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CEMS to optimize SO2 conversion and lower stack temperature from gas plants
Global Analyzer Systems provides Alberta’s energy producers with equipment including state of the art, multi-component Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS), Data Acquisition and Control Systems, CEMS Online Reporting, Quality Assurance Plans and Compliance Auditing. Global continues to be a trusted source for CEMS support and regulatory compliance and provides high quality, custom built CEMS solutions…
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Company-Wide Rollout of a Systematic Energy Efficiency Program Leading to Significant GHG Reductions in Alberta’s Oil and Gas Industry
ERA funding recipient ConocoPhillips tested ten different technologies to improve energy efficiency and reduce methane emissions, and the results have been shared throughout Alberta’s oil and gas industry to enable broader adoption. Converting high bleed instruments to low/no bleed instruments was the most successful technology for ConocoPhillips. The instrument conversion involves reducing the methane bleed…
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Alberta Oil Sands Energy Efficiency & GHG Mitigation Roadmap Program
Suncor Energy Inc., one of Canada’s premier integrated energy companies, works in the development and upgrading of oil sands, conventional and offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refining, and product marketing in Canada under the Petro-Canada brand. Developed in 2012 by Suncor with Jacobs Consultancy, the Alberta Oil Sands Energy Efficiency and GHG Mitigation Roadmap…
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Binary Fluid Compression: A Platform Technology
Founded by the Alberta Mining Corporation (AMC) and Chief Scientist Wayne May, this Calgary-based company is seeking to provide people around the world with clean energy and water through technological innovation. Implementing an unprecedented method, Binary Fluid Injector technology uses a high-performance heat pump or refrigeration cycle that is driven directly by thermal energy –…
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Weyerhaeuser Grande Prairie Evaporator Project
The old adage ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ rings true for this project that demonstrated energy efficient technology at an Alberta pulp mill. The Grande Prairie Evaporator Project is the final addition to a clean energy overhaul. This high efficiency evaporator system aimed to gather an additional 100,000 pounds of…
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Whitecourt Energy Efficiency Project
The Whitecourt Recovered Energy Project signaled NRGreen’s first venture into Alberta. NRGreen installed a waste heat recovery generation system on a compressor site to produce 13.8 MW of power. Waste heat recovery units capture the exhaust from natural gas turbines and convert it into emissions-free electricity. This was the first installation of the system and…
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Waste Heat Power Production from Amine Stream
Genalta Power Systems Inc., a Canadian renewable energy company, focuses primarily on creating cost-effective and environmentally responsible electricity with technologies that convert waste energy into power for use in the oil and gas industry. Site owners are provided with solutions like base load green energy, increased plant efficiencies, operating cost reductions, greenhouse gas emission credits,…
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Installation of Air/Fuel Ratio Controllers and Vent Gas Capture on Engines
Cenovus Energy Inc. is a Canadian integrated oil company. Operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, which use specialized methods to drill and pump the oil to the surface, and established natural gas and oil production in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Cenovus staff identified two technologies that could be used in their operations to increase…
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Vent Gas Capture for Engine Fuel Use
Encana is a North American energy producer, producing natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs). ERA invested in a pilot project with Encana Corporation that involved installing 59 different vent gas capture units in natural gas compressor stations. Compressor stations help with the transportation of natural gas, and vent methane during the process. The…
