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wayneheritage8Title API PUBL 4661 - Exploration and Production Emission Calculator II (EPEC II)
User’s Guide - 2nd Edition; Includes Access to Additional Content
Knowledge Base Standards Expert
Document Status Active
Publication Date January 2007
Posted Date 1/18/2007
Document Language English
Page Count 110
Publisher API - American Petroleum Institute
Publisher 200 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Information 20001
Phone: (202)682-8000
Washington
20005
1220 L Street, NW
DC
http://www.api.org/
DoD Adopted No
ANSI Approved No
IHS Segments 590AH - API - Collection (Active/Historical)
594 - API - Environmental and Safety
Abstract INTRODUCTION
The Exploration and Production Emission Calculator Version 2.0 (EPEC II) is a
software tool that can be used to estimate emissions for exploration and
production (E&P) facilities.
EPEC II integrates user inputs, emission calculations, and data summaries for
many equipment types common to E&P facilities.
The calculation techniques and emission factors utilized by the EPEC II software
were, in most cases, established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the Gas Research Institute
(GRI).
Published references that provide background information for the calculation
methods used in EPEC II are given for each equipment type in both the software
and in each section of this User's Guide.
EPEC II can be used to estimate emissions of criteria pollutants (carbon monoxide
[CO], nitrogen oxides [NOx], sulfur oxides [SOx], particulate matter under 10 μm
[PM10], and volatile organic compounds [VOCs]), hydrogen sulfide (H2S),
greenhouse gases (GHGs—carbon dioxide [CO2], methane, and ethane), and
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes,
1,3-butadiene, n-hexane, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane, formaldehyde, and acetaldehyde.
The types of equipment addressed by the EPEC II software include amine units,
cooling towers, diesel/gasoline internal combustion (IC) engines, external
combustion emission units, fixed-roof storage tanks, flares, fugitive emissions,
glycol dehydrators, loading operations, natural gas engines, natural gas turbines,
and vents.
The user also has the flexibility to include emissions from additional equipment
types, or to use alternative means to calculate emissions.
Document History
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API PUBL Exploration and Production Emission Calculator Active 1/1/2007
4661 II (EPEC II) User’s Guide - 2nd Edition; Includes
Access to Additional Content
Related Documents
This document contains the following References (4)
API GHG1 Compendium of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation Methodologies for the Oil
and Gas Industry - Pilot Test Version
API MPMS 19.1 Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards Chapter 19.1 Evaporative Loss
from Fixed-roof Tanks - Fifth Edition
API PUBL 4638 Calculation Workbook for Oil and Gas Production Equipment Fugitive Emissions
API PUBL 4683 Correlation Equations to Predict Reid Vapor Pressure and Properties of Gaseous
Emissions for Exploration and Production Facilities
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