• Methane: Science & Technology

  • Climate/Methane Policy

  • Machine Learning & Sustainability

  • Equity/Energy System Modeling

  • Hydrogen

Underlined names are Ph.D. students or post-doctoral scholars I mentored (current and past).

For a full list of publications, please see my Google Scholar page: Arvind Ravikumar

2022

  1. A.P. Ravikumar, M.E. Webber, and M. Bazilian (2022). The US role in securing the European Union’s near-term natural gas supply. Nature Energy.

  2. S. Yang, S. Hastings-Simon, and A.P. Ravikumar (2022). Global liquefied natural gas expansion exceeds demand for coal-to-gas switching in Paris compliant pathways. Environmental Research Letters 17 064048.

  3. S. Yang, S. Hastings-Simon, and A.P. Ravikumar (2022). Pipeline availability limits on the feasibility of global coal-to-gas switching in the power sector. Environmental Science & Technology. 56 14734.

  4. A.P. Ravikumar and T.M. Latimer (2022). Notes from the oil patch: planning for a worker focused transition in the oil and gas industry. In Review.

  5. J. Wang, W. Daniels, D. Hammerling, M. Harrison, K. Burmaster, F. George, and A.P. Ravikumar (2022). Multi-scale methane measurements at oil and gas facilities reveal necessary framework for improved emissions accounting. Environmental Science & Technology 56 14743.

  6. J. Wang, B. Barlow, C. Robinson, W. Funk, A.R. Brandt, and A.P. Ravikumar (2022). Large-scale controlled experiment demonstrate effectiveness of methane leak detection and repair programs at oil and gas facilities. In Review.

  7. D. Singh, B. Barlow, C.H. Hugenholtz, W. Funk, C. Robinson, and A.P. Ravikumar (2022). Field performance of new methane detection technologies: Results from the Alberta Methane Field Challenge. In Review.

  8. A.P. Ravikumar, E. Baker, A. Bates, D. Nock, D. Venkataraman, T. Johnson, M. Ash, S.Z. Attari, K. Bowie, S. Carley, S. Castellanos, M. Cha, D.L. Clark, D. Deane-Ryan, D. Djokic, J.C. Ford, A. Goldstein, E. Grubert, L. Hu, D.M. Kammen, U. Kosar, C. Miller, M. Pastor, and M. Tuominen (2022). Enabling an equitable energy transition through inclusive research. Nature Energy.

  9. S.M. Jordaan, A.W. Ruttinger, K. Surana, D. Nock, S.M. Miller, and A.P. Ravikumar (2022). Global mitigation opportunities for the life-cycle of natural gas-fired power. Nature Climate Change.

  10. C. Bauer, K. Treyer, C. Antonini, J. Bergerson, M. Gazzani, E. Gencer, J. Gibbins,M. Mazzotti, S.T. McCoy, R. McKenna, R. Pietzker, A.P. Ravikumar, M.C. Romano, F. Ueckerdt, J. Vente, and M. Spek (2022). On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production. Sustainable Energy & Fuels 6 66.

    2021

  11. E.D. Sherwin, Y. Chen, A.P. Ravikumar, and A.R. Brandt (2021). Single-blind test of airplane-based hyperspectral methane detection via controlled releases. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9 00063.

  12. J.S. Rutherford, E.D. Sherwin, A.P. Ravikumar, G. Heath, J. Englander, D. Cooley, D.. Lyon, M. Omara, Q. Lang tt, and A.R. Brandt (2021). Closing the gap: Explaining persistent underestimation by US oil and natural gas production-segment methane inventories. Nature Communications 12 4715.

  13. C. Kemp and A.P. Ravikumar (2021). New technologies can significantly reduce the cost of addressing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. Environmental Science & Technology 55 9140.

  14. J. Wang, J.. Jingwei, A.P. Ravikumar, S. Saravese, and A.R. Brandt (2021). VideoGasNet: Deep learning for natural gas methane leak classification using an Infrared camera. Energy 238 121516.

  15. R.E. Liu, A.P. Ravikumar, X.T. Bi, S. Zhang, Y. Nie, A.R. Brandt, and J. Bergerson (2021). Greenhouse gas emissions of western Canadian natural gas: Proposed emissions tracking for life cycle modeling. Environmental Science & Technology 55 9711.

    2020

  16. K.A. Klise, B.L. Nicholson, C.D. Laird, A.P. Ravikumar, and A.R. Brandt (2020). Sensor placement optimization software applied to site-scale methane emissions monitoring. Journal of Environmental Engineering. 146 04020054.

  17. J. Wang, L.P. Tchapmi, A.P. Ravikumar, M. McGuire, C. Bell, D. Zimmerle, and A.R. Brandt (2020). Machine vision for natural gas methane emissions detection using an infrared camera. Applied Energy. 257 113998.

  18. J.Wang, S. Nadarajah, J. Wang, and A.P. Ravikumar (2020). A machine learning approach to methane emissions mitigation in the oil and gas industry. NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with AI. Best Overall Paper Award

  19. Y. Nie, S. Zhang, R.E. Liu, D. Roda-Stuart, A.P. Ravikumar, A. Bradley, M. Masnadi, A.R. Brandt, J. Bergerson, and X.T. Bi (2020). Greenhouse-gas emissions of Canadian liquefied natural gas for use in China: Comparison and synthesis of three independent life cycle assessments. Journal of Cleaner Production 258 120701.

    2019

  20. S.N. Lyman, T. Tran, M.L. Mansfield, and A.P. Ravikumar (2019). Comparison of optical gas imaging surveys at oil and gas wells in Utah. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 7 43.

  21. A.P. Ravikumar, S. Sreedhara, J. Wang, J. Englander, D. Roda-Stuart, C. Bell, D. Zimmerle, D. Lyon, I. Mogstad, B. Ratner, and A.R. Brandt (2019). Single-blind inter-comparison of methane detection technologies results from the Stanford/EDF Mobile Monitoring Challenge. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 7 37.

  22. T. Fox, T. Barchyn, D. Risk, A.P. Ravikumar, and C. Hugenholtz (2019). A review of current and emerging technologies for monitoring methane emissions in upstream oil and gas. Environmental Research Letters 14 053002.

  23. A.P. Ravikumar, D. Roda-Stuart, R. Liu, A. Bradley, J. Bergerson, Y. Nie, S. Zhang, X.T. Bi, and A.R. Brandt (2019). Repeated leak detection and repair surveys reduce methane emissions over scale of years. Environmental Research Letters 15 034029.

  24. T. Fox, A.P. Ravikumar, C.H. Hugenholtz, D. Zimmerle, T.E. Barchyn, M.R. Johnson, D. Lyon, and T. Taylor (2019). A methane emissions reduction equivalence framework for alternative leak detection and repair programs. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 7 30.

    2018 and prior

  25. A.P. Ravikumar, J. Wang, M. McGuire, C. Bell, D. Zimmerle, and A.R. Brandt (2018). Good versus good enough? Empirical tests of methane leak detection sensitivity of a commercial infrared camera. Environmental Science & Technology 52 2368.

  26. A.P. Ravikumar, J. Wang, and A.R. Brandt (2017). Are optical gas imaging technologies effective for methane leak detection? Environmental Science & Technology 51 718.

  27. A.P. Ravikumar and A.R. Brandt (2017). Designing better methane mitigation policies: the challenge of distributed small sources in the natural gas sector. Environmental Research Letters 12 044023.

  28. C. Kemp, A.P. Ravikumar, and A.R. Brandt (2016). Comparing natural gas leakage detection technologies using an open-source virtual gas field simulator. Environmental Science & Technology 40 4546.