Screening and utility programs for air modeling

✍ Scribed by Kumar, Ashok

• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 234 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0278-4491
• DOI: 10.1002/ep.670100407

✦ Synopsis

Environmental professionals working on air pollution problems may be required to get an idea of the impact of a source before proceeding for a detailed analysis. Screening models available from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can help in the work. The EPA modeling guideline [ I ] indicates that a screening analysis should be conducted to determine the maximum impact of a source. The screening results generally tend to overestimate the real life concentrations because of the assumptions used during modeling.

EPA also provides a number of utility programs making it easier to work with the data. This paper presents a brief description of the screening and utility programs available from the EPA. A list of the programs is given in Table 1. Most of the programs can be executed on an IBM PC compatible. The procedure for downloading the programs from the EPA Bulletin Board is given in the earlier review paper by Kumar and Mohan [2]. These programs are available free of charge.