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Gases2026, 6(4), 56;https://doi.org/10.3390/gases6040056 
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3 November 2026

Public aircraft engine certification data provide a reproducible basis for emissions modeling when the proprietary combustor geometry, engine cycle data, and detailed operating histories are unavailable. This study develops a physically constrained r...

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2 November 2026

Agriculture is both a source of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and a potential carbon sink, so mitigation must distinguish direct emission reduction from carbon removal. This study quantifies Portuguese agricultural emissions and assesses how carbon farming...

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A Review of Fugitive Methane Emissions Detection Technologies for LNG Operations

  • Nicholas N. A. Ling,
  • Mauricio Di Lorenzo,
  • Luke McElroy,
  • Kwanghee Jeong and ,
  • Eric F. May,
  • Michael L. Johns,
  • Craig E. Buckley and
  • Bruce W. E. Norris
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1 November 2026

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is increasingly central to global energy strategy, positioned as a lower-emission transition fuel. That positioning assumes fugitive methane emissions across the LNG supply chain are well-characterised, yet direct measurem...

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1 November 2026

Natural gas processing plants (NGPP) contribute considerably to greenhouse-gas emissions, especially when processing carbon dioxide rich (CO2-rich) natural gas. Therefore, it is urgent and of general interest to study the decarbonization of such plan...

(This article belongs to the Topic Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilisation Technologies (CCS/CCU)—3rd Edition)
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26 October 2026

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a critical determinant of occupant health, comfort, and cognitive performance, particularly in densely occupied indoor environments such as libraries. This study aims to quantify particulate matter (PM) dispersion dynamics...

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20 October 2026

This study examines agricultural greenhouse-gas (GHG) emission scale and source composition across a fixed EU-27 geographical cohort and Mercosur-4 (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) over 2002–2023. Using FAOSTAT emissions totals, a bal...

(This article belongs to the Section Gas Emissions)
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For Whom Is Gas a Curse? Heterogeneous Effects of Natural Gas Dependence on Human Development: A Combined Approach of Double Machine Learning with Causal Forests

  • Luis Alfredo Ramírez-Vargas,
  • Ana Lorena Jiménez-Preciado,
  • José Álvarez-García and
  • Francisco Venegas-Martínez

20 October 2026

The relationship between natural gas wealth and socioeconomic development has yielded conflicting results in the “resource curse” literature. This study reframes the issue, shifting the focus from whether gas constitutes a curse to determ...

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18 October 2026

Quantitative comparisons of geological CO2 storage projects often compare quantities, assets, operation period, and legal obligations that relate to different services. This critical integrative review analyzes nineteen selected geological CO2 storag...

(This article belongs to the Topic Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilisation Technologies (CCS/CCU)—3rd Edition)
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Hydrogen–Biogas Co-Blending for Low-Carbon Gas Systems

  • Michele Francesconi and
  • Carlo Carcasci

17 October 2026

Hydrogen blending and biogas upgrading are usually treated as separate routes for decarbonizing gas networks. This work investigates their direct combination through a nonlinear optimization framework for the compositional design of natural gas (NG),...

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Public Transit as a Catalyst for Emission Mitigation and Air Pollution Reduction: A Case Study in India

  • Rashmi Ranjan Samal,
  • Satya Ranjan Samal,
  • Malaya Mohanty,
  • Madhu Lisha Pattanaik and ,
  • Kundan Samal and
  • Jagdeep Kumar Nayak
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6 October 2026

Rapid motorization and urbanization have made the transport sector a dominant contributor to air pollution in developing economies such as India. In this study, vehicular emission trends were investigated in Bhubaneswar, a Tier-II smart city, using a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecosystems and Climate Change: Understanding Impacts to Shape the Future)
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Abundance-Weighted Carbon-Isotope Mixing in Natural Gas: Nonlinear Trajectories and Implications for Source Interpretation

  • Yunyan Ni,
  • Quan Zheng,
  • Mingxuan Di,
  • Bernhard M. Krooss and ,
  • Siyuan Feng,
  • Linxuan Bai and
  • Jianping Chen
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2 October 2026

Carbon isotope trends of light hydrocarbons in mature to overmature natural gases are commonly evaluated against gas wetness ([C2 + C3]/[C1 + C2 + C3]), yet the geometric effects of component-specific abundance contrasts are often conflated with reac...

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16 September 2026

China’s pursuit of its dual-carbon targets—carbon peaking before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060—critically hinges on the structural decarbonization of its energy system. Utilizing a Bootstrap Autoregressive Distributed Lag (...

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Beyond Snapshots: Building Methane Measurement-Informed Inventories for Midstream Oil and Gas Sites in the Appalachian Basin

  • Arthur Santos,
  • Jacob Mdigo,
  • Anna Hodshire,
  • Daniel Zimmerle and ,
  • Tecle Rufael,
  • Matthew R. Harrison and
  • Arvind Ravikumar
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11 September 2026

This paper presents the application of a novel methodology to build a comprehensive Measurement-Informed Inventory (MII) by integrating unreported emissions into government inventories. These emissions are often excluded from current regulatory requi...

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Thermodynamic Analysis of Methanation of Pyrolysis Gas from Anthropogenic Residues

  • Cesare Freda,
  • Emanuele Fanelli,
  • Orfeo Trezza,
  • Giacinto Cornacchia and
  • Giacobbe Braccio

11 September 2026

The methanation of pyrolysis gas was investigated using the open access software DWSIM v9.0.5 to assess its potential for producing methane-rich gas. The pyrolysis gas composition was derived from known experimental tests of anthropogenic residues, n...

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Combined Enhancement of Biohydrogen Production in the Halotolerant Cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica by Reducing Agents and Glucose Under Nitrogen-Deprived Dark Anaerobic Conditions

  • Nattanon Chinchusak,
  • Noppanan Pathompanich,
  • Nanthakan Chotiwan,
  • Supanida Aeksiri and ,
  • Aran Incharoensakdi and
  • Saranya Phunpruch
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1 September 2026

Hydrogen (H2) is a promising renewable energy carrier because of its high energy density and environmentally friendly characteristics. The halotolerant cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica is a potential biological H2 producer because of its abilit...

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21 August 2026

If a CO2 reservoir or transmission pipeline were to leak, both the surrounding ecology and maritime traffic safety could be put at risk. To better understand and prepare for this risk, multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models were built i...

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Cyclic Hydrogen Injection Effects on Mechanical and Physical Properties of Berea Sandstone: Implications for Underground Hydrogen Storage

  • Sugan Raj Thiyagarajan,
  • Hossein Emadi,
  • Athar Hussain,
  • Diana Maury Fernandez and ,
  • Eric Stinson,
  • Duane Pfeiffer,
  • Ion Ispas and
  • Marshall Watson
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20 August 2026

Large-scale and long-term hydrogen storage is a key requirement for a sustainable hydrogen-based energy system. Although underground hydrogen storage (UHS) in porous media has gained increasing attention, the behavior of hydrogen during cyclic inject...

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17 August 2026

Anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) and emissions from maritime transport represent a significant challenge for atmospheric monitoring and control. The Istanbul Strait, characterized by its narrow, winding geography and high traffic density, presen...

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7 August 2026

Fertilised cropland systems are the dominant source of reactive nitrogen losses in the global environment, contributing most anthropogenic nitrous oxide emissions and driving agricultural nitrogen surplus to nearly three times the safe planetary boun...

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4 August 2026

This study provides a site-specific, unlevered financial screening of gas-to-power, gas-to-pipeline, and gas-to-compressed-natural-gas (CNG) options at three Nigerian flare sites: Amukpe (1.16 MMscf/d), Oziengbe South (5.15 MMscf/d), and Oben (10.88...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 5th Anniversary of Gases—Feature Papers on Gas to Fuels)
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31 July 2026

Renewable hydrogen storage can absorb surplus wind and solar generation, reduce curtailment, and provide a flexible energy carrier. Its value depends not only on the electrolyzer, storage tank, and fuel cell, but also on the operational strategy used...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Hydrogen Energy: Production, Storage, and Applications)
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31 July 2026

This study assesses the potential of biomethane integration into a gas distribution net-work to improve supply reliability under constrained operating conditions. A steady-state, isothermal network model based on graph theory and a SIMPLE-type iterat...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Gas)
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20 July 2026

Workers are exposed to pollutants generated by hair salon activities, which may pose potential health risks. This study measured volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations in five hair salons using a high-sensitivity photoionization detector (PID...

(This article belongs to the Section Gaseous Pollutants)
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Preliminary Assessment of Measurement Frequency and Replication Effects on Season-Long Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Warming Potential Estimation Consistency Among Various Ecosystems

  • Kristofor R. Brye,
  • Diego Della Lunga,
  • Jonathan B. Brye,
  • Cassie Seuferling and ,
  • Tyler Buchanan,
  • Will Dockery and
  • Lauren Gwaltney
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6 July 2026

For soil processes that are known to be temporally dynamic, such as soil respiration, methanogenesis, and nitrification–denitrification, it is challenging to capture temporal variations with field-portable greenhouse gas (GHG) analyzers to prov...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecosystems and Climate Change: Understanding Impacts to Shape the Future)
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1 July 2026

Understanding how methane moves through nanoporous media is key to predicting performance in unconventional gas reservoirs. At these extremely small scales, pore sizes approach the molecular level, where classical flow assumptions begin to fail and m...

(This article belongs to the Topic Petroleum and Gas Engineering, 2nd edition)
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23 June 2026

This article aims to examine how the natural gas market evolved following the price shocks observed between 2020 and 2024, paying particular attention to market integration and the persistence of these shocks. The proposed analysis uses daily price d...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Gas)
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Introducing CdZnTe Detectors into Measuring 222Rn Concentrations in Water

  • Ioannis Kaissas,
  • Konstantinos Karafasoulis,
  • Aris Kyriakis and
  • Panagiotis Papaprokopiou

3 June 2026

Radon (222Rn) is a noble, radioactive gas and tends to be accumulated in poorly ventilated enclosed spaces. Mainly due to its radioactive daughters and the α-particles emitted, 222Rn poses a risk of cancer and therefore its concentration in air...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecosystems and Climate Change: Understanding Impacts to Shape the Future)
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A Correction for the Cylinder Wall Adsorption in Forensic Ethanol Gas Standards

  • Adriaan M. H. van der Veen,
  • Gerard Nieuwenkamp,
  • Nilenska Martina and
  • Jianrong Li

2 June 2026

Forensic ethanol gas standards are used for, among other things, the calibration and metrological verification of evidential breath analysers as described in OIML-R126 Evidential breath analysers. A correction for the amount fraction of ethanol in fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Gas Control)
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1 June 2026

In megacities, where conventional mitigation strategies exhibit variable and environment-dependent performance, urban air pollution continues to be a significant public health concern. To methodically assess the operational reliability of urban smog...

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1 June 2026

This study presents experimental adsorption–desorption data of CH4 and CO2 on shale samples from the Cesar-Ranchería Basin, Colombia, a region with limited characterization of gas–rock interactions under reservoir-relevant conditio...

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14 May 2026

Maritime transport accounts for around 3% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a share expected to grow without effective technological and regulatory intervention. Recent policy developments, including the IMO Revised GHG Strategy...

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Synergistic Effect of Nickel and Carbon Defects on Reverse Boudouard Reaction Toward Sustainable Chemical Looping

  • Ahmed M. S. Soliman,
  • Yahia H. Ahmad,
  • Roman Tschentscher,
  • Duncan Akporiaye and
  • Ma’moun Al-Rawashdeh

12 May 2026

The integration of catalytic methane decomposition (CMD) with CO2 gasification (Reverse Boudouard Reaction) offers a promising chemical looping route for carbon-negative hydrogen and syngas production. This work systematically investigates the gasifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 5th Anniversary of Gases—Feature Papers on Gas to Fuels)
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1 May 2026

Electronic nose platforms based on metal-oxide (MOX) sensors offer potential for low-power gas classification under dynamic operating conditions. This study evaluates a BME688-based digital nose configured with a temperature-modulated heater profile...

(This article belongs to the Section Gas Sensors)
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28 April 2026

During natural gas production and transportation, multi-stage pressure regulation is often required to meet downstream pressure demands, resulting in substantial waste of residual pressure energy at high-pressure wellheads. This study focuses on high...

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Balancing CO2 Enrichment and Air Quality: Performance and Safety of a Propane-Based Greenhouse System

  • Haridian del Pilar León,
  • Carlos Morillas,
  • Sara Martinez,
  • Guillermo Armero and
  • Sergio Alvarez

8 April 2026

Carbon dioxide (CO2) enrichment using fuel combustion is widely applied in greenhouse production. However, its implications for air quality and occupational safety under real operating conditions remain insufficiently characterized. This study evalua...

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2 April 2026

As the global imperative for climate neutrality intensifies, hydrogen (H2) from fossil fuels remains central to decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors. Conventional production via steam methane reforming (SMR), however, is carbon-intensive and, even wit...

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1 April 2026

Methane emissions from end-use installations in residential natural gas systems remain poorly quantified, despite their importance to both safety and climate policies worldwide. While distribution networks and appliances have received research attent...

(This article belongs to the Section Gas Emissions)
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Effectiveness of Electrokinetic EOR on Gas Condensate Banking Treatment—Proxy Modelling and Optimization

  • Princewill M. Ikpeka,
  • Ugochukwu I. Duru,
  • Stanley Onwukwe,
  • Nnaemeka P. Ohia and
  • Johnson Ugwu

18 March 2026

Gas condensate banking can significantly reduce near-well gas productivity by as much as ~60% in tight gas reservoirs. Existing treatment techniques are resource demanding and could alter the reservoir structure permanently. This study investigates t...

(This article belongs to the Topic Petroleum and Gas Engineering, 2nd edition)
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6 March 2026

This study numerically investigates the conversion of a Heavy-Duty (HD) Spark-Ignition (SI) Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engine to operate with hydrogen-rich syngas produced from waste plastic pyrolysis. The engine was modeled with a one-dimensional...

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3 March 2026

Synthetic natural gas (SNG) production from biomass residues represents a promising strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance energy security in regions with abundant agricultural waste. This study evaluates the thermodynamic performanc...

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2 March 2026

This research investigates wettability-induced, preferential, pressure-driven bubble nucleation of gases from a multi-gas dissolved liquid system in hydrophilic and hydrophobic glass vials. The hydrophobic glass surfaces were prepared using (heptadec...

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2 March 2026

This study examines how different sustainability assessment approaches influence climate-policy choices when evaluating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across industrial value chains. Using Spain as an empirical setting, we apply Environmentally Exten...

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24 February 2026

An experiment was conducted to produce synthesis gas (main components CO and H2) via plasma–steam gasification of brown coal with an ash content of 9% and a volatile matter yield of 48%. Satisfactory agreement between the calculation results an...

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5 February 2026

In South Asia, smog has become a critical environmental concern that endangers public health, ecosystems, and the regional climate. To determine the primary causes of smog formation in Lahore during peak polluted months (October and November), the cu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecosystems and Climate Change: Understanding Impacts to Shape the Future)
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A Review on In Situ Hydrogen Generation in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

  • Mustafa Hakan Ozyurtkan,
  • Coşkun Çetin and
  • Cenk Temizel

3 February 2026

This review examines the emerging concepts of hydrogen production and storage directly within hydrocarbon reservoirs (in situ), evaluating their technical feasibility, infrastructure requirements, challenges, and potential role in net-zero strategies...

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2 February 2026

This study presents a techno-economic assessment of a modular, solar-assisted methane pyrolysis pilot plant designed for sustainable hydrogen production in Nigeria using concentrated solar power (CSP). Driven by the need to convert flare gas into val...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecosystems and Climate Change: Understanding Impacts to Shape the Future)
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2 February 2026

This study examines the determinants of U.S. CO2 emissions and provides evidence to inform more effective carbon-reduction policies. Using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) models, the analysis covers January 1997 to Fe...

(This article belongs to the Section Gas Emissions)
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