Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Abstract

• This study examines the distribution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the natural gas and oil industry across seven regions of Colorado. In particular, this project aims to use Air Pollution Control Division’s 2016 air inventory data from the Colorado State Department of Public Health and the Environment to evaluate regions of high producing emitters of VOCs. The research question is as follows: How do VOC estimated emission levels from oil and natural gas compare to the annual throughput of each monitored extraction site, and how do these variables differ among seven regions in the state of Colorado? A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) among all seven Colorado regions indicates there is a relationship between region, range of annual throughput, and the log of VOCs estimated emission levels. The overwhelmingly highest area of monitored extraction is the Denver Metro/Northern Front Range region but is not the highest polluting on average from this dataset.

Creator

• Blake, Samuel

Date Awarded

• 2018-01-01

Academic Affiliation

• Honors Program

Advisor

• Rogers, Sarah

Committee Member

• Miller, Dale
• White, Philip

Granting Institution

• University of Colorado Boulder

Subject

• Natural gas
• Colorado
• VOC
• Oil

Última modificação

• 2019-12-02

Resource Type

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Declaração de direitos

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

Relações

Em Collection:

• Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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