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SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR APPLICATION OF THE INHALATION EXPOSURE METHODOLOGY (IEM) TO STUDIES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES
Citation:
O'Donnell, F. AND C. Gilmore. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR APPLICATION OF THE INHALATION EXPOSURE METHODOLOGY (IEM) TO STUDIES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/2-87/071 (NTIS PB87232641), 1987.
Description:
The Inhalation Exposure Methodology (IEM) is an integrated system of computer programs that simulates the atmospheric transport of and the resulting human exposures to pollutants released from one or more sources at an industrial complex. The study was undertaken to determine the sensitivity of IEM predictions of pollution concentrations and population exposures to (1) variations of selected, user-supplied source, meteorological, climatological, and pollutant parameter values and (2) use of the three available source modeling options to represent emission sources found at hazardous waste management facilities (HWMFs). These sources include incinerators and associated structures, storage, and treatment tanks, drum stacks, process buildings, surface impoundments, waste piles, and land treatment areas.