The Emission Reduction Planning Model
Abstract
Day-to-day activities at both industrial and Department of Defense (DoD) facilities require the operation of a wide variety of air pollution sources, and achieving compliance with applicable air pollution regulations and permits governing the operation of such air pollution sources can be complicated. The Air Compliance Advisor (ACA) software was designed as a decision support tool to assist environmental coordinators in developing optimized compliance strategies. This report presents a description Emission Reduction Planning Model (ERPM) and the ACA. The ACA is an extendable computer-based decision support system for developing air pollution compliance strategies. It was developed to assist environmental personnel to achieve and maintain compliance with applicable regulations and permit conditions. It accomplishes this by providing a framework for collecting site-specific data, providing reliable estimates of emissions in the absence of actual data, providing estimates of pollution control options' efficiencies and costs, and integrating the functionality of regulatory requirements for federal facilities to determine what regulations may apply. While the software was developed initially for use by the DoD, these capabilities are clearly useful to industry and regulators both in the U.S. and Canada.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA378579
Entities
People
- Daniel M. Maloney
Organizations
- Argonne National Laboratory