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Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other Environmental Impacts

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TRACI, the Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other environmental Impacts, has been developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory to facilitate the characterization of stressors that have potential effects, including ozone depletion, global warming, acidification, eutrophication, tropospheric ozone (smog) formation, human health criteria-related effects, and fossil fuel depletion effects. TRACI can be used for sustainability metrics, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, pollution prevention, or process design.

Record Details:

Record Type:MODEL

Product Published Date:10/31/2003

Record Last Revised:11/16/2009

Record ID: 74923

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Keywords:

Sustainability metrics, life cycle impact assessment, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology, pollution prevention, impact assessment, characterization,

Model Keywords:

Physical (e.g., radiation, heat particles, fibers, noise), Point Source (e.g., tank, spill, stack, discharge pipe), Area Source (e.g., spray, fertilizer, lagoon, holding area), Land Use Changes, Ecological Indicators, Chronic and Acute Diseases, Mortality, Body Burden - Dose (e.g., phamacokinetics, retention, transformation), Pathway (e.g., inhalation, digestion, dermal, injection), Location, Biogeochemical (e.g., cycling, growth, consumer-resource), Accumulation (e.g., deposition, sedimentation), Transformation (e.g., chemical reaction, partitioning, biodegradation), Transport (e.g., advection, bulk, dispersion, diffusion), Ecosystem, Air, Water (e.g., surface water, ground water), Ground (e.g., soil, sediment), Mobile Source (e.g., automobiles, trains, ships, airplanes), Chemical (e.g., organic, inorganic, toxics),

Model Detail:

Model Evaluation :Code verification, sensitivity analysis, and qualitative & quantitative uncertainty analysis have been performed.

The model has been internally and externally peer reviewed.

Model URL :http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/std/sab/traci/

Model Guidance Documents :User needs only moderate level of technical education and/or modeling experience.

Documentation is available on the homepage.

Model Decision Documents :Technical publication link on above website or found in:Bare, J.C., G.A. Norris, D.W. Pennington, and T. McKone, "TRACI - The Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and other environmental Impacts," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2003.

Model Download Information :The model is available through its homepage.

modelcontactinfo :Jane Bare
U.S. EPA
Office of Research and Development (ORD)
National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL)
Sustainable Technology Division (STD
U.S. EPA/NRMRL (Mail Code: MS-466)
(513) 569-7513
bare.jane@epa.gov

Model Inputs :Screening model with moderate input requirements. User inputs the emissions from a facility or other scenario for comparison.

Requires user to have inventory of emissions to input.

Model Outputs :Comparison between two or more scenarios. Results will be recorded in several categories.

Provides characterized results for all of the above mentioned categories.

otheruserdocs :Bare, J.C., G.A. Norris, D.W. Pennington, and T. McKone. (2003). “TRACI – The Tool for the Reduction and Assessment of Chemical and Other Environmental Impacts.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 6, 3.

Model Computer Requirements:

Model Operating Systems Needs :Windows 95, 98, NT, or later

Model Hardware Needs :PC compatible

other_req :Microsoft EXCEL