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The concept of Best Available Techniques (BAT) encompasses a set of technological, technical, and organizational solutions for preventing and controlling negative environmental impacts while improving resource efficiency. Within key technological processes, built-in solutions play a crucial role in pollution prevention, while end-of-pipe measures are applied to control emissions that cannot be prevented by primary solutions. In most countries, BAT applies to key resource-intensive sectors, including hydrocarbon ex...

Sustainable aviation fuels represent the most viable near-term option for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector, as they can be deployed within existing aircraft and fuel infrastructure. Despite significant advances in microbial metabolic engineering, the contribution of biological platforms to aviation fuel supply remains marginal, indicating persistent limitations that extend beyond laboratory-scale performance. This review provides a critical analysis of microbial systems proposed for susta...

Accurate estimation of greenhouse gases in national inventory reports, submitted by countries every year under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement is an important task. Fugitive greenhouse gas emissions from oil production, gathering and treatment is a key category in the Russian national inventory report. Total emissions from this category accounted to more than 30 million tons of CO2 equivalent in 2021. Since in Russian inventory the default IPCC emission factors from these operations are used, in the framework o...

Natural gas hydrate reservoirs often consist of a mixture of various gaseous species: small-chain hydrocarbons, as methane, ethane, propane and butane, and other species, as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen sulfide and others. Every species shows different forming conditions. Moreover, those conditions may change as a function of the mixture composition and the properties of the surrounding environment. The present study deals the production of hydrates with small-chain hydrocarbons, within a silica-base...

The most attractive option to recover methane trapped within natural gas hydrate reservoirs, consists of the so-called -replacement process-, mainly based on the contemporary injection of carbon dioxide during the mining process. If appropriately carried out, this process allows to improve the amount of methane recovered, preserve the crystalline hydrate cages and permanently store enough carbon dioxide to make this source definitively carbon neutral. For that reason, this process is widely studied worldwide. Howe...

The paper presents an alternative approach for detecting potential oil or gas leaks from transport and distribution pipelines. The detection of possible accidental pollution is carried out using small UAV systems with the help of photogrammetry. Currently, significant material and human resources are allocated to detect such events, and the use of UAVs can solve the problem of monitoring both small areas like oil platforms, gas extraction stations, or oil wells by implementing multirotor-type architectures, as wel...

The article considers the Strategic Socio-Environmental Assessment (SSEA), which aims to contribute to the integration of social and environmental considerations into the preparation, adoption and implementation of strategies, plans, and programmes, with a view of promoting sustainable development. The Environmental Impact Assessment of individual projects does not necessarily guarantee that at the regional level, the state of the environment as well as social and cultural characteristics do not deteriorate due to...

With the continuous technological advancement the global demand for selected chemical elements in both emerging and established solutions is rising. This is particularly evident in energy storage applications, such as lithium-ion batteries for increasingly popular electric vehicles. The growing need for lithium carbonate drives the search for innovative extraction methods, including recovery from brine through chemical processes. This approach not only aids in lithium recovery but also positively impacts the envir...