Environmental monitoring and reporting system for EPA cluster rule 010094

A method for the combined monitoring and reporting of actual and potential emissions of multiple phases of matter from a production facility which utilizes and/or generates such multiple phases of matter comprising the steps of:

• a. identifying each of the potential sources of emission events of gaseous matter generated within the production facility and desired to be monitored and reported,
• b. identifying each of the potential sources of emission events of liquid matter generated within the production facility and desired to be monitored and reported,
• c. at each identified potential source of gaseous or liquid emission event, providing means for detecting an emission event occurring at said source and generating an event signal which is representative of a detected emission event of a respective one of gaseous or liquid emission events at said source, said signal being representative of at least the occasion of the emission event, the volumetric extent of the event, the timing of the event, and the location of the event with the production facility,
• d. transmitting said event signal from its identified source thereof to at least one central location,
• e. generating a further signal representative of an operational phase of the production facility which is associated with each identified potential source of an emission event,
• f. transmitting said signal representative of an operational phase of the production facility to said at least one central location,
• g. at said central location, monitoring said incoming signals from said sources of emission events and said signals representative of respective associated operational phases of operation of the production facility associated with said sources of emission events, comparing each of said signals from respective ones of said sources of emission events with said signals representative of a respective one or more operational phase of the production facility associated with said source of said emission event to determine the status of the operation of the production facility at the time of said emission event,
• h. reporting as actual emission events only those emission events which positively correlate with an associated ongoing production phase of the production facility at the time of the reported emission event.