Inventory data

AU inactive sites where wastes have been disposed of in tbe past should be inventoried. Data should be gathered on buried wastes, including types, quantity, and sources. A groimdwater-monitoriug program should be developed. 

Mah, R.S., G.M. Stanley, and D.M. Downing, Reconciliation and Rectification of Process Flow and Inventory Data, Indushial and Engineeiing Chemishy, Piocess Design and Development, 15(1), 1976, 175-18.3 (Reconciliation, impact of gross errors)... 

The tools available for site selection include climatological data, topography, population data, emission inventory data, and diffusion modeling. Climatological data are useful in relating meteorology to emission patterns. For example, elevated levels of photochemical oxidant are generally related... 

Failure and Inventory Reporting System Offshore Oil and Natural Gas 8,000 failure events and causes Inventory data on ASME coded devices Safety and pollution prevention devices on offshore structures, eg. subsurface safety valves 72. 

TRI99. 2001. TRI explorer Providing access to EPA s toxics release inventory data. Washington,... 

The considerably higher effort of carrying out LCAs would be worthwhile in two situations. First, individual LCAs may be valuable in cases where complex and potentially relevant trade-offs occur in mass balancing which cannot be resolved by expert judgement. Second, the routine use of LCA could be aimed for. This would necessitate a dedicated effort to compile inventory data for frequently used processes, such as waste treatment. Once this is achieved, calculating LCAs for existing or new processes is relatively easy. 

The advantages to using MSDSs for chemical inventories are that MSDSs are publicly available and required by law. There is no extra cost or labour needed to supply them. The limitations to using MSDSs as a source of inventory data are that currently, in the United States, a standardized reporting format is not mandatory. MSDSs are not verified or audited and MSDS information can be incomplete and/or inaccurate. In addition, OSHA s definition of hazard does not include the broader scope of hazard used in green chemistry. Therefore, chemicals that are potential hazards from the green chemistry perspective but are not defined by OSHA as hazards, are not required to be identified on a MSDS. 

Brown S, Gillespie A, Lugo A. Biomass estimation methods for tropical forests with applications to forest inventory data. Forest Science, 1989. 35(4) pp. 381-902. 

Walser et al. [65] have published a LCA study using inventory data for polyester (PET) textile production. The authors also noticed that the data in the Ecoinvent database [66] on cotton and bast fibers do not specify the yam size, which has an important influence on energy use. 

The EPS system was initially developed to be used within the product development process as a tool to help assess the environmental performance of products. The system is based on LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) methodology and uses inventory data (kg of substance A), characterization factors (impact/kg of substance X) and weighting factors (cost/impacts) to calculate the external costs or values of a product. By multiplying the characterization factor with the weighting factor, an impact index is obtained (cost/kg of substance X) which describe the cost/values related to the emission per use of a kg of a certain substance. 

The scope of the case study is depicted in Fig. 2. In the inventory, average data on emissions and consumptions, typically based on 5-10 data points (depending on the parameter) from a total of 71 Danish and Swedish printing houses and European literature values, are used (foreground data). For the upstream and downstream emissions and consumptions (background data), inventory data from databases like EDIP LCV tool [12] and literature like BUWAL [13] and data from Swedish paper mills [14] have been used. In the main scenario, it is assumed that 53% of the paper is recycled and the rest incinerated (Danish situation in year 2000). 

The rather thoughtless use of chemical compounds for plant protection in the second half of the XX century has brought about the accumulation in the storehouses of some facilities of about 1000 tons of preparations that are unfit for use, forbidden or unidentified. The sanitary and epidemiological service jointly with the Ecological inspection and the District station for plant protection are conducting an inventory of the storage sites of these toxic wastes. Inventory data with indications for the place of the storage, the names of the preparations and their quantity is kept in a computer database. 

Air quality simulation models for photochemical pollutants were reviewed by Johnson et al. for a new edition of Air Pollution. Some of the models developed for simulating photochemical smog were reviewed from the viewpoints of module logic and evaluation. The Los Angeles-based developments were outlined, including the format and preprocessing of emission inventory data and meteorologic data. Lumped-param-... 

For starch production, we refer to published inventory data [13] prepared based on 1995 Input-Output Tables. The economic value of starch is based on 1995 Input-Output Tables [14]. 

Transportation of succinic acid and 1,4-butanediol and other various raw materials is the same as for Bionolle. Starch and plasticizer are transported to Showa Denko Tatsuno Factory from domestic and overseas production plants. We derive various scenarios from actual transport information in this study, including distance, route, means of transport, and loading ratios. Fuel consumption and CO2 emission related to transportation are estimated based on these scenarios. As starch is assumed to be produced in the USA, we account for both sea transportation from the USA to Japan and land transportation from domestic ports to the Tatsuno Factory in this study. For inventory data per unit amount of transport during transportation, we refer to data from JEMAI LCA Ver. 1.1.6 [8] for land transportation and data from the literature [15] for sea transportation in particular, data from the literature [16] is also referred to for sea transportation distances. 

FIGURE 16.27 Measured ratio of VOC to NO, in the Los Angeles area during the 1987 Southern California Air Quality Study (SCAQS) to that calculated from emission inventories. (Data from Fujita et al., 1992.)... 

Classification Properly select and organize inventory data into technically correct categories. Ex-... 

Characterization Model the selected inventory data to provide better perspective than simple mass loadings, for example, the total number of pounds or tons released. 

EPA. 1998. Instructions for reporting for the 1998 partial updating of the TSCA chemical inventory data base. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. EPA 749-B-98-001. 

Data screening and quality assurance checking were conducted at initial information retrieval and all data entries cross-checked during subsequent data compilation. Production/activity levels were verified against different information sources including annual records, selfmonitoring reports and ad hoc study reports. There was inadequate documentation of local industrial/commercial/urban activities and/or limited analytical data on the level of POPs contamination in some classes of emission sources. These were identified as inventory data gaps for followup actions. 

To maintain a perpetual inventory system, all purchases and sales must be entered into the computer system (Carroll, 1998 West, 2003). A clerk can enter data from purchases, or the computer dispensing system can be interfaced with the computer order system. The interface allows for the inventory to be reduced when a product is dispensed. The sales data can also be entered at the point of sale by devices that use optical scanning and barcode technology. Point-of-sale (POS) devices are advantageous in that they improve the accuracy of pricing and inventory data. They eliminate the need for price stickers, reduce the frequency of pricing errors, and automatically track inventory. 

Peereboom, E., R. Kleijn, S. Lemkowitz, et al. 1998. Influence of inventory data sets on life-cycle assessment results A case study on PVC. J. Ind. Ecol. 2 109-130. 

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