Kuva Systems: Harnessing infrared imaging tech for monitoring methane emissions [Gas in Transition]
Kuva Systems: Harnessing infrared imaging tech for monitoring methane emissions [Gas in Transition]
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Kuva Systems: Harnessing infrared imaging tech for monitoring methane emissions [Gas in Transition]
Summary
Monica Sippola, director of business development at Kuva Systems, discusses with NGW how the company’s patented non-thermal infrared camera and cloud monitoring technology provides continuous remote monitoring of methane emissions with zero false positives assurance. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 7] by: Mike Weber
Q: Can you give us a brief overview of what Kuva Systems offers for oil and gas companies looking to lower their carbon footprint? A: Kuva enables the oil and gas industry to address methane emissions. We do this by having an end-to-end turnkey solution for continuous monitoring of methane emissions consisting of a proprietary cost-effective infrared camera which acts as an edge device, a cloud solution that continuously takes the data coming from the camera, stores and further refines that data, and two options to communicate with the customer: a web portal and also API/MQTT for customers looking for integration between their systems and Kuva’s solution. Q: Can you explain how your Gas Cloud Imaging technology works? What makes it so effective at identifying gas leaks? A: The way our technology works is that we use sunlight. Sunlight comes down to earth and it gets reflected...
Related Knowledge Center: Methane
As the production of natural gas from shale fields has expanded, so have methane emissions. U.S. methane emissions grew 27 percent from 1990 to 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration. Methane contributes about 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.