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Building a Comprehensive Mill-Level Database for the Industrial Sectors Integrated Solutions (ISIS) Model of the U.S. Pulp and Paper Sector
Citation:
Modak, N., K. Spence, S. Sood, AND J. Rosati. Building a Comprehensive Mill-Level Database for the Industrial Sectors Integrated Solutions (ISIS) Model of the U.S. Pulp and Paper Sector. PLOS ONE . Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA, 10(3):3, (2015).
Impact/Purpose:
In response to a 2004 recommendation by the National Research Council (NRC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing integrated assessment techniques to monitor and manage environmental protection. These techniques include multi-pollutant sector-based analyses and approaches to assessing and regulating air quality. An appropriate mathematical modeling framework can be used to facilitate these analyses and, accordingly, the Industrial Sectors Integrated Solutions (ISIS) model has been developed. The ISIS model is a multi-sector multi-product dynamic linear modeling framework that evaluates the economic impact of emission reduction strategies for multiple pollutants. The model analyzes and evaluates the environmental and economic performance of the overall industrial sector.This article describes the method used to construct the ISIS database for the pulp and paper industrial sector, including the type of data needed, data processing, data analysis, and relevant assumptions that were made to develop the database to be used as the input to the ISIS model.
Description:
The Industrial Sectors Integrated Solutions (ISIS) model for the pulp and paper sector is currently under development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and can be utilized to facilitate multi-pollutant sector-based analyses that are performed in conjunction with regulatory development. The model is a multi-sector multi-product dynamic linear modeling framework that evaluates the economic impact of emission reduction strategies for multiple pollutants. The ISIS model considers facility-level economic, environmental, and technical parameters, as well as sector-level market data to estimate the impacts of imposing environmental regulations on the pulp and paper industry. Specifically, the model can be used to estimate the U.S. market and the global market impacts of new or more stringent air regulations such as impacts on product price, exports and import, demands, and mill closures. One major obstacle to developing a representative model is the need for an extensive amount of data. This article discusses the collection and processing of data for use in the model.
