Advanced Environmental Controls Consulting and Engineering Services, Inc.

Air Quality Services

Permitting, compliance, and emissions-trading expertise that keeps California facilities operating — from NSR and Title V to RECLAIM and air toxics programs.

Permitting & Compliance

  • Develop emissions inventories
  • Conduct New Source Reviews (NSR)
  • Prepare air permit applications and obtain approval
  • Title V permit preparation
  • Regulatory liaison (SCAQMD and other air districts)
  • Assess emissions control technology to satisfy Best Available Control Technology (BACT) and Best Available Retrofit Control Technology (BARCT)
  • Prepare and assist in variance hearings
  • Facility air quality compliance audits
  • Engineering design and selection of air pollution control equipment and related systems

Air Toxics & Risk Programs

  • Air toxics program management: emission inventory plans and reports
  • Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) and air dispersion modeling
  • Air toxics reporting for SARA Title III
  • Source testing and sample analysis programs
  • Preliminary analysis using SCREEN and PTPLU models (required for most air permits)
  • Refined analysis using ISCST3, COMPLEX-1, SHORTZ, and AERMOD models for health risk assessments
  • Multi-pathway health risk assessment for Maximum Individual Cancer Risk (MICR) and excess cancer burden
  • Computerized isopleths plotting

RECLAIM Compliance

RECLAIM sets a facility-wide emissions limit and lets each facility determine the most cost-effective controls. Typical AEC services include:

  • Keeping you informed on regulatory requirements and how RECLAIM will affect your facility's operations
  • Auditing RECLAIM calculations to assure accurate allocations
  • Source testing
  • Technical and economic planning for meeting RECLAIM emission limits
  • Engineering of emission controls and process modifications to reduce emissions
  • Installation of Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) and Continuous Process Monitoring Systems (CPMS)
  • Computerized systems for recording, data validation, and transmission of emissions reports

Emissions Trading Services

Compliance and profits through emissions trading — create, certify, and sell emission credits. AEC provides trading services for buying and selling Emission Reduction Credits (ERC) and RECLAIM Trading Credits (RTC):

  • Monitoring emissions reports to advise whether RTCs should be bought or sold
  • Access to the SCAQMD electronic bulletin board for RTC availability and price information
  • Confidential third-party listing of RECLAIM Trading Credits at client's discretion
  • Projections on future trends of the RTC trading market
  • Advice on the best prices
  • Completion of all transaction documentation for the SCAQMD
  • Baseline emissions audits and technical/economic planning for RECLAIM compliance

California Air Toxics Compliance

Air Toxics Risk Assessment

AEC assists industries in determining air toxics emissions and complying with health risk assessment requirements.

California Programs

  • Air Toxics "Hot Spots" (AB 2588)
  • Proposition 65
  • California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
  • Risk Management and Prevention Program
  • Compliance with regional, state, and federal permit application requirements for health effects screening

Technical Deliverables

  • Estimation of air toxics emissions and source testing
  • Determination of toxic material usage limits, control equipment requirements, and stack design requirements to reduce health risk
  • Modeling deliverables suitable for HRA submittals

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