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API PUBL 2524 Document Information:
Title
Impact Assessment of New Data on the Validity of American Petroleum Institute Marine Transfer Operation Emission Factors
American Petroleum Institute
Publication Date:
Jul 1, 1992
Scope:
The marine transfer emission factors documented in the American
Petroleum Institute (API)
publication entitled "Atmospheric Hydrocarbon Emissions from Marine
Vessel Transfer Operations, API
2514A" (API, 1987) has been widely accepted by industry and by the
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) as containing accurate equations to calculate emissions from
marine transfer operations.
However, recent emission testing of crude oil loading operations at
Valdez, Alaska, by the Alyeska
Pipeline Service Company, together with its owner company
organizations, Atlantic Richfield (ARCO),
British Petroleum (BP), and EXXON, indicated higher crude oil loading
emissions than that predicted
by the API equations in API 2514A (Alyeska, 1990).
As a result of this, and a part of the API 2514A reaffirmation
process, API retained CH2M HILL to
assess the validity of the API 2514A marine vessel loading equations
in light of this new Alyeska
data and any additional data available in literature and from API
members, and to make specific
recommendations for improving the validity of API 2514A. Although the
evaluation of crude oil
loading emissions is the main emphasis of this study, a review and
critique of the gasoline loading
and crude oil ballasting emission factors and equations in API 2514A
was also performed.
This report is divided into five major sections:
1. A summary of the results of a literature search of published
information and a telephone survey
of unpublished information from API member organizations on marine
vessel loading and ballasting
emissions (First part of Task 1, Section 3 of the report).
2. A review and critique of the crude oil loading, gasoline loading,
and crude oil ballasting
emission test data bases and associated emission models (Second part
of Task 1, Section 4 of the
report).
3. A direct comparison of measured and predicted emissions from marine
vessel loading and
ballasting operations (Task 2, Section 5 of the report).
4. An assessment of the validity and application of API emission
estimates in light of new test
data and the reviews summarized in Sections 3 through 5 (Task 3,
Section 6 of the report).
5. Specific recommendations on improving the validity and application
of API 2514A emission
estimates (Task 4, Section 7 of the report).
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