Air Emissions Software for GHG/Carbon Management
Air emissions management is increasingly complex, and requires continuous visibility of compliance status. IHS software provides a powerful calculation engine to perform required calculations at the facility and enterprise level.
Collect
Securely gathers, stores, and organizes the data necessary in air emissions calculations, including data that:
- Represents 1 to 1000s of facilities, and 100s to 100,000s of emission sources
- Is static or time-varying
- Is stored in other enterprise and site-level software systems
- Is needed for Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions (e.g. Fuel use, composition, equipment operating parameters,
CEM data, Utility bills) - Is collected using handheld devices, spreadsheets, or web-based data entry forms
Process
Uses consistent methodologies to calculate required results, including:
- Source-level emissions from operating assets such as boilers, heaters, turbines, paint booths
- Facility-rollup emissions for the plant-wide view required in meeting management system targets and certain regulatory programs
- Division, Country, and Corporate-level values useful for internal KPIs and external Corporate Responsibility reporting
- Industry-specific calculation protocols, for equipment such as tanks
- Quantifying carbon assets and mitigating risks
Deliver
Produces outputs in formats such as:
- Formatted compliance reports for submission to regulatory agencies
- Data outputs in .xml format for submission to online regulatory programs
- Reports detailing GHG and other emissions across the enterprise
Benefits & Features
| Benefits | Features | ||
| Manages change of organizational boundaries and emission sources for accurate trend reporting | Tracks changes in facility ownership, operational control, emission sources, and chemicals to maintain an accurate history, maintaining both current and prior values, and reasons for change. Useful for reporting both GHGs and other (e.g., NOX, SOX, VOC) pollutants. | ||
| Supports emissions trading with financial-quality GHG, SOX, and NOX accounting. | Auditable, verifiable system includes all calculation inputs, intermediate values, and final results. | ||
| Automates data handling to save time, increase auditability, and decrease introduction of errors by manual entry | Provides three ways to collect data going into your emissions calculations:
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| Increases efficiency and consistency of emission inventories | Automates data collection, calculations and reporting to dramatically reduce the amount of time spent on emissions inventories. | ||
| Increases information availability to support operations better, allowing you to permit new processes faster in a manner consistent with emissions inventories | Visualizes emission trends in the Essential Performance Manager™ module dashboard. Provides fast access to operating equipment parameters, allowing faster permit application submittal. | ||
| Standardizes calculations to assure consistency within and between facilities and environmental professionals | Does any required calculations ranging from simple (e.g., fuel use x emission factor) to very complex (e.g., speciated tank calculations). Performs unit of measurement conversions. | ||
| Strengthens conformance with operating limits, including equipment and facility-level compliance requirements | Checks emissions against limits using scheduled and on-demand calculations | ||
Clients
- Alcoa
- Caterpillar
- Delta Airlines
- Duke Energy
- Halliburton
- H.B. Fuller
- KNPC
- New York Power Authority
- US Steel
Case Studies
- Alcoa
Title V Monitoring, Recordkeeping and Reporting System Reduces Compliance Fees by $100,000+ - Dow Chemical
Environmental Reporting Project Streamlines Emissions Management, Reduces Costs $2 Million - CNPC - PetroChina
Launches HSE Information System at PetroChina as Foundation for World-Class Sustainability
Solutions
- Part of the IHS Environmental Compliance and GHG/Carbon Management solutions.
- Available in Essential Suite™
