AIR QUALITY SERVICES
Develop Emissions Inventories
Conduct New Source Reviews (NSR)
Prepare Air Permit Applications and Obtain Approval
Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM Compliance strategies)
Trading Services for Buying and Selling RECLAIM Trading Credits (RTCs)
Baseline Emissions Audits
Technical/Economic Planning for RECLAIM compliance
Computerized Systems for recording, data validating, and transmission of emissions reports
Process review and control technology analysis
Engineering design and process modifications to reduce emissions
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)
Air Toxics Program Management
Air Toxic Emission Inventory Plan
Air Toxic Emission Inventory Report
Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) and Air Dispersion Modeling
Air Toxics Reporting for SARA Title III
Source Testing and Sample Analysis Programs
Prepare and Assist in Variance Hearings
Computer Aided Environmental Management Services Facility Air Quality Compliance Audits
Provide Engineering Design and Selection of Air Pollution Control Equipment and Related Systems
COMPLIANCE AND PROFITS THROUGH “EMISSIONS TRADING”
Create, Certify and Sell Emission Credits
AEC assists industries to determine air toxics emissions and comply with health risk assessment requirements:
Compliance with California’s air toxics laws:
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
Estimation of air toxics emissions
Source testing for air toxics emissions
Preliminary analysis using SCREEN and PTPLU models (Required for most air permits)
Refined analysis using the ISCST3, COMPLEX-1, SHORTZ, and AERMOD models (Required for Health Risk Assessments or when preliminary analysis indicates high risk)
Multi-pathway health risk assessment for Maximum Individual Cancer Risk (MICR) and excess cancer burden
Computerized Isopleths plotting
Determination of toxic material usage limits, control equipment requirements, and/or stack design requirements to reduce health risk
REGIONAL CLEAN AIR INCENTIVES MARKET (RECLAIM)
RECLAIM sets a limit on facility-wide emissions and allows each facility to
determine the most cost-effective controls. Typical services that AEC provides
include:
Keeping you informed on regulatory requirements and how RECLAIM will affect your facility’s operations
Auditing of RECLAIM calculations to assure accurate RECLAIM allocations
Source testing
Technical and economic planning for meeting RECLAIM emission limits
Engineering of emission controls and process modifications to reduce emissions
Installation of Continuos Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) and Continuous Process Monitoring Systems (CPMS)
Computerized System for recording, data validation, and transmission of emissions reports
AEC also provides the following trading services for buying and selling Emission Reduction Credits (ERC) and RECLAIM Trading Credits (RTC):
Monitoring of emissions reports to advise whether RTCs should be bought or sold
Access to SCAQMD electronic bulletin board to obtain 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