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SPECIATE--EPA'S DATABASE OF SPECIATED EMISSION PROFILES
Citation:
BECK, L. SPECIATE--EPA'S DATABASE OF SPECIATED EMISSION PROFILES. A&WMA's 99th Annual Conference and Exhibition Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, June 20 - 22, 2006. AWMA, Pittsburgh, PA, Paper 229:CD-ROM, (2006).
Description:
SPECIATE is EPA's repository of Total Organic Compound and Particulate Matter speciated profiles for a wide variety of sources. The profiles in this system are provided for air quality dispersion modeling and as a library for source-receptor and source apportionment type models. This recent initiative to update SPECIATE is needed because speciated emissions profiles continue to be developed and the data in the existing EPA database (SPECIATE 3.2) is becoming outdated. SPECIATE v3.2 was posted to EPA's CHIEF web site in November 2002 with 2068 emission profiles. No new profiles had been added to SPECIATE until recently. SPECIATE v4.0 is now available. It contains more than 4300 source profiles. SPECIATE 4.0 currently exists as a Microsoft Access relational database but may be committed to stand-alone software with the development of a "front end". There also has been work to develop composite profiles and to map profiles to source classification codes. Other work related to EPA's SPECIATE database has been updated or new work has begun. This paper presents details about EPA's SPECIATE database and ancillary work being done through a collaboration involving EPA's Office of Research and Development and the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards at Research Triangle Park, NC.