Environmental compliance in the 1980's involved taking data from strip recorders and typing a few reports. During the 1990's, we added electronic data collection and some simple spreadsheets at the facility boundary. The late 1990's through today has become more challenging, as the number of regulations increase, monitoring moves from the fence-line to the process, and customers request product-specific environmental information. This presentation covers International Paper's journey through MACT (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) projects during the year 2000 through today, as we replace regulation-specific 80-tab Excel spreadsheets with real-time data collection systems and consolidated environmental reporting. The PI System is the basis for the information in the real-time data. Concepts include:
Data acquisition from numerous systems, data quality calculation, and potential-to-emit statuses
Standard methodologies and conventions
Designing fault tolerance from the beginning
Using metadata to create customer-specific reports from one data set