フレアから燃料へ：資産規模の脱炭素化に向けたフレアガスのモジュール式低炭素液体燃料への転換

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🔬研究者:モジュール式プロセス設計とライフサイクル炭素強度評価を統合した実装研究の枠組みとして参照できる。

🏢実務担当者:海外資産でのフレア削減・メタンMRV整備とScope 1削減策の検討に活用できる。

🏛政策担当者:フレア規制とメタン削減政策の設計において、認証可能なデータ要件の参考になる。

Abstract Routine flaring and venting of associated gas remain persistent operational, environmental, and value-loss challenges across upstream and midstream assets, particularly where gathering infrastructure, gas treatment capacity, or offtake markets are constrained. Methane-rich flare streams are especially important because real flare performance can be affected by intermittent flow, sub-stoichiometric combustion, flame instability, and operational upsets. These factors can increase methane slip and near-term climate impact. The World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Tracker and Zero Routine Flaring initiative reinforce this urgency by showing that routine flaring remains a global resource-efficiency and emissions challenge despite long-standing reduction commitments. This paper presents an engineered modular Flare-to-Fuels platform, with emphasis on Flare-to-Liquids, for upgrading variable off-gas into fungible, transportable products. The portfolio includes NGL recovery, CNG, LNG, methanol, synthetic fuels, and liquid fuel blendstocks that can use existing storage, transport, blending, or end-use infrastructure where specifications allow. The objective is to reduce routine flaring and methane slip while converting a waste stream into saleable products that improve asset economics, local energy security, and portfolio-level emissions performance. The solution focus is deployable process design rather than a theoretical single-route concept. The manuscript describes feed conditioning, brownfield tie- ins, operability under variable feeds, skid-based modularization, syngas generation, methanol synthesis, optional downstream upgrading, and quantified emissions outcomes through transparent lifecycle carbon-intensity accounting. The proposed screening framework links field conditions to monetization pathways and defines how technology configuration, operating envelope, lifecycle assessment, monitoring, reporting and verification, and policy-relevant design choices can be considered together. When modular process equipment, auditable carbon boundaries, and certification-ready data systems are integrated early, flare gas can be repositioned from an environmental liability into a transition-molecule value chain.

• crossref https://doi.org/10.2118/235556-msfirst seen 2026-11-04 06:02:54 · last seen 2026-11-05 06:35:43