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Industrial Sectors Integrated Solutions (ISIS) Model for the portland cement manufacturing industry
Citation:
SRIVASTAVA, R., G. S. BHANDER, W. YELVERTON, AND E. TORRES. Industrial Sectors Integrated Solutions (ISIS) Model for the portland cement manufacturing industry. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2010.
Impact/Purpose:
EPA report 600R14089,
Description:
In the National Academy of Science's 2004 report, "Air Quality Management in the United States," the National Research Council (NRC) recommended to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that standard setting, planning, and control strategy development should be based on integrated assessments that consider multiple pollutants, and that these integrated assessments should be conducted in a comprehensive and coordinated manner (NAS, 2004). With these recommendations, EPA began to move toward establishing multi-pollutant and sector-based manage air quality and environmental protection. The benefits of multi-pollutant sector-based analyses and approaches include the ability to identify optimum strategies (considering feasibility, costs, and benefits across all pollutant types such as criteria, toxics, and others), while streamlining administrative and compliance complexities and reducing conflicting and redundant requirements. The development of policy options for managing emissions and air quality can be made more effective and efficient through sophisticated analyses of relevant technical and economic factors. Such analyses are greatly enhanced by the use of an appropriate modeling framework. Accordingly, the Industrial Sectors Integrated Solutions (ISIS) model has been developed at EPA (ARCADIS, 2010). Currently, the ISIS model is populated with US cement manufacturing data, and efforts are underway to build representations of the U.S. pulp and paper sector and the U.S. iron and steel sector. This document describes the framework of EPA's ISIS model and its application to the U.S. cement manufacturing industry.