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ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems collocated with the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems
August 29–September 1, 2017
San Francisco, California, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division
ISBN:
978-0-7918-5809-7
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Monitoring Fugitive Methane Gas Emission From Natural Gas Pads Available to Purchase
Levente J. Klein,
Levente J. Klein
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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Ted van Kessel,
Ted van Kessel
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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Dhruv Nair,
Dhruv Nair
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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Ramachandran Muralidhar,
Ramachandran Muralidhar
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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Hendrik Hamann,
Hendrik Hamann
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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Norma Sosa
Norma Sosa
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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Levente J. Klein
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Ted van Kessel
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Dhruv Nair
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Ramachandran Muralidhar
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Hendrik Hamann
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Norma Sosa
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Paper No:
IPACK2017-74191, V001T03A006; 6 pages
Published Online:
October 27, 2017
Citation
Klein, LJ, van Kessel, T, Nair, D, Muralidhar, R, Hamann, H, & Sosa, N. "Monitoring Fugitive Methane Gas Emission From Natural Gas Pads." Proceedings of the ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems collocated with the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems. ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems. San Francisco, California, USA. August 29–September 1, 2017. V001T03A006. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IPACK2017-74191
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