Welcome to the Emission Inventory (EI)/Tribal Emission Inventory Software Solution (TEISS) Training Curriculum: Course 1-EI FundamentalsModule 4 – Introduction to TEISS

Discussion of Homework: Discuss the answers to the homework questions.

Learning Objectives: This module is an introduction to TEISS. I am going to open an existing project containing data from the NEI database that has already been imported into TEISS. Learning objectives for this session:

Know how to view data in the TEISS input view.

Know how to view data using the TEISS reports.

Know where to find the TEISS calculators for viewing.

Video 1--Opening TEISS: Find the TEISS View icon in the Start menu of your computer and click it to launch TEISS. If the TEISS View icon is not shown, you can select All Programs, then Lakes Environmental, and then select TEISS View. You can also generate a shortcut to TEISS on your desktop.

A splash screen will appear with an image of the Grand Canyon, and the current version. Click the OK button.

A blank screen will appear with the icons New and Open active in the TEISS toolbar at the top of the screen.

All TEISS projects are organized with a file ending in (filename extension) of .TSP, with an associated folder. You can only open TEISS projects from within TEISS, by opening the file with the filename extension .TSP, as shown below. (We have a video of how to set up your computer to show these filename extensions on our website, and doing this will help you in all your computer tasks.)

For this demonstration, I am going to open an existing project, so I am going to click on Open. This opens a box showing the location of the most recent TEISS project that you have opened. To open an existing TEISS project, click on the file with a filename extension of .tsp to select it. Make sure you do not click on the folder with the same name, but with a filename extension of .dat. For this demonstration, I am going to click on the ArizonaGPRImportTraining.tsp file. Then click on the Open button of that screen.

The log in screen appears. The default User Name and Password are set by Lakes Environmental, the TEISS developer. The User Name is already populated as Administrator. The Password is Teiss and it is case-sensitive. The “T” must be capitalized. Make sure the Caps Lock is not on when entering the password. Then click on the OK button.

The TEISS project opens. The map shows the state of Arizona. In this example, I did not import any reservation land coverage. On the lower right corner of the screen, you can see icons indicating that there are facility, release point, and nonpoint data in this project. This is because I previously imported NEI data for counties in Arizona into the TEISS project.

At this point, we HIGHLY recommend that you make a sticky note with this login information and post it on your computer, on the inside cover of your EI notebook, or where you can find it every time you work on TEISS:

Video 2--Finding Point Sources on the Map: Now I am going to zoom in on the map by clicking on the magnifying glass with a plus sign in it icon in the vertical toolbar to the left of the map. I want to get closer to the area I live in and see what point sources are nearby. The point sources are represented by the small blue boxes on the map. I am interested in seeing data on this facility in Coconino County.

If I zoom in even more on the facility, I can select it by clicking on the arrow icon in the vertical toolbar to the left of the map and then clicking within the facility represented by a small box.

This shows the facility identifier of 2321, the facility name of EPNG – Williams Compressor Station, and list the release points associated with the facility.

Video 3--Viewing Point Data in Input View:, If I select the facility in the list by highlighting it and clicking on it, I can then right click on the facility and select Edit to view the point data in TEISS input

view (even though I selected Edit, I can simply view the data without actually making any edits). Note that Input View, aka the Linear Data Entry screen, can be accessed either from the map directly, as shown in this example, or from the Input menu option or Input icon in the TEISS toolbar.

This opens in the Facility editing window of TEISS for this facility. In this window, I can see the facility information for this site. The green fields are required and the white fields are optional if you are submitting the data to the EPA NEI database. Scrolling through this window shows that this is a pipeline compressor station located in Williams, AZ. Clicking on the x button of this window closes it. When that window closes, a list of the other facilities in this location (in this case, Coconino County) is shown.

(You know that you are in the location of Coconino County, because you see on the left there is Facilities, and the way this window works is that the white panel on the left has a hierarchy of characteristics, and first you specify the POINT, and then in each of those points are listed Facilities, and so on. So since Facilities is highlighted, we can click one up in the hierarchy to see the Point Location that this facility is in. Additionally, the location of Coconino County is shown in what I call the Breadcrumbs panel at the top of the Linear Data Entry screen.)

I am going to keep investigating this facility. Under the Point Sources bar on the left of the screen, there are different items that can be clicked on to learn more about this facility. I want to see what emission units are at this facility. Clicking on the Emission Units item under the Point Sources bar on the left of the screen brings up this screen.

It shows 9 emission units located at this facility. I am going to select Unit 001 by clicking on it and then clicking on the Edit button (or double-clicking Unit 001) to see all the emission unit data available for this unit. That brings up this screen.

The Unit Type Code is unclassified, so this does not tell me much about what goes on at this unit. I am going to click on the x button to close this window. Now I am going to click on the Processes item under the Point Sources bar.

The important thing to notice here is that from this point on in the Point Sources bar, the data shown are building from your previous selection in the Point Sources bar. For example, there is one process shown in this screen. This process is associated with Emission Unit 001 because that is the emission unit that was selected before I clicked on the Processes item. This is not the only process at this facility, it is merely the only process associated with this emission unit (one up in the hierarchy, and you can also keep track of the hierarchy in the Breadcrumbs panel at the top of the Linear Data Entry screen). I am going to select this process by clicking on it and then click on the Edit button to view the data. That brings up this screen.

Breadcrumbs panel

By looking at the Source Classification Code description, I can see that the process at Emission Unit 001 involves a natural gas internal combustion engine. Click on the x button of this window to close it.

There are several options for viewing processes associated with other emission units. The first option is to select a different emission unit from the Emission Units item under the Point Sources bar. First click on the Emission Units item, then select a different emission unit by clicking on it. I am going to select Emission Unit 008.

Then clicking on the Processes item under the Point Sources bar, I can see that there is also one process associated with Emission Unit 008.

To find out what this process is, click Edit (or double click) the Process, and you will see the editing window that includes the Source Classification Code description. You can see how entering info in the Process Description (for data that you enter yourself) would make a clearer distinction of what each process is in the Linear Data Entry screen..

Another option for viewing processes associated with different emission units is to use the arrow buttons on the top of the right hand side of the Breadcrumb panel. There are three different sets of arrow buttons at this point. Clicking on the Point Locations arrow buttons changes the county selected. Clicking on the Facilities arrow button changes the facility selected. Clicking on the Emission Units arrow buttons changes the emission unit selected. This is what I want to do. I am going to click the right arrow button to go forward one emission unit.

This shows that there is also one process associated with Emission Unit 009.

Now I would like to look at the emissions from this facility. If I use the down arrow button under the Point Sources bar, I can scroll down to the Actual Emissions item.

Clicking on the Actual Emissions item shows that the selected emission unit (Emission Unit 009) and the selected process (Process 1) at this emission unit emit 0.56 tons of VOC. The selected reporting period is annual, as can be seen in the Breadcrumb panel.

Remember that the other emission units and processes at this facility have other emissions that are not currently shown on this screen. To view those emissions, I can either select the units from the Emission Units item and the processes from the Processes item under the Point Sources bar, or I can use the arrow buttons in the Breadcrumb panel. I want to view the emissions for Emission Unit 008. I can use the arrow buttons to scroll back to Emission Unit 008. I can also select this unit from the dropdown list accessed by clicking on the down arrow button of Emission Units in the Breadcrumb panel.

This screen shows that Emission Unit 008, Process 1 has emissions from eleven pollutants.

What I would really like to see is the total emissions for each pollutant from this facility. Although I could sum these emissions from each unit and process with a calculator, there is a much more productive method to do this with TEISS. That method is to run a report for the facility with TEISS. I am going to do that, but first I need to close the TEISS input view, aka Linear Data Entry screen, by clicking on the x button of this screen.

Video 4--Viewing Point Data in TEISS Reports: To access the TEISS reports, click on the Reports button in the TEISS toolbar.

This screen opens.

Under the Point Sources folder are all the reports that can be generated for point sources. The reports that have graphs associated with them have a small pie chart icon. I am looking for a report that shows the total facility emissions for the one facility I am interested in. Since I am only looking at data for one

facility instead of comparing this facility to other facilities, the graphs are not going to show me much. I am going to select the Facility Emissions report, that does not have a graph, by clicking on it. This screen opens where I begin the process of specifying the criteria for the report.

The facility I am interested in is in Coconino County. I am going to click on the Uncheck All button. This button has an icon that looks like two blank boxes on top of each other. Then I can select only Coconino County by clicking on the blank box next to it.

Then I click on the Next button to go to the next screen of the report criteria specification. This screen lists every facility in Coconino County that has emissions in the TEISS project. Again, I am going to click on the Uncheck All button and select only the facility I am interested in, the EPNG – Williams Compressor Station.

Then I click on the Next button again. I do not need to change anything in this screen because the Annual Reporting Period is already selected.

Clicking on the Next button again brings up a screen where I can select what pollutants I want to include in the report. I would like to see emissions for all pollutants, so I am going to click on the Check All button that looks like two boxes with check marks in them. This selects all pollutants that the facility has emissions for in the TEISS project.

Clicking on the Next button brings up a screen where I can specify details on how I want the data displayed in the report. I am going to leave the defaults.

Clicking on the Finish button brings up the report.

I can make the report bigger by using the dropdown box at the top of the screen.

This report tells me that this facility emits a significant amount of NOx. Click on the x button to close the report screen.

Video 5—Nonpoint Data

Viewing Nonpoint Data in Input View: The easiest way to access nonpoint data in input view is to click on the Input button in the TEISS toolbar.

That brings up the same input screen that I looked at the point data in. To see the nonpoint data, click on the Nonpoint Sources bar.

On the left side of the screen, you can see that there are less items listed for nonpoint sources than there were for point sources. This is because there are less data associated with nonpoint sources. I want to look at data for Coconino County, so I am going to click on it in the list of counties on the right side of the screen. Then on the left side of the screen under the Nonpoint Sources bar, I am going to click on the Nonpoint Processes item. I would like to see what emissions are coming from residential heating.

On the right side of the screen is the list of processes, sources in other words, reported for this county. The Process Description field is not populated, and since I do not know what Source Classification Codes characterize residential heating, it makes it hard to find what I am looking for. It would be easier to use the TEISS reports to find the residential heating emissions. I am going to close the input view by clicking on the x button of this screen.

Viewing Nonpoint Data in TEISS Reports: I am going to click on the Reports button in the TEISS toolbar just like I did when I wanted to view the reports for point sources.

This screen opens.

Under the Nonpoint Sources folder are all the reports that can be generated for nonpoint sources. I am looking for a report that compares emissions for the various residential heating sources. Since I am

comparing multiple sources, a graph would be beneficial. I am going to click on the by SCC report, under the Nonpoint Sources folder. That brings up the first screen for specifying the report criteria.

I am only interested in Coconino County, so I am only going to select that entry. Clicking on the Next button then brings up this screen.

This screen allows me to select the Source Classification Code (SCC) grouping I want to see data for. Residential heating falls into the Stationary Source Fuel Combustion category. I want to see data specifically for each type of residential heating, for example, wood, LPG, natural gas, etc., so this category is too general. To get more specific, I need to click in the Select SCC Level to Report dropdown box.

What do these SCCs mean? Searching in TEISS Help, under SCC Database gives you this info:

For point sources, there are four levels of source descriptions for each SCC, associated with the first 1, 3, 6, and 8 digits of the codes.  A column is available for each description level.  The first level (SCC 1 Description) provides only the most general information on the category of emissions.  The second level (SCC 3 Description) subdivides the 5 major emission categories into major industry groups.  The third level (SCC 6 Description) identifies a specific industry or emission source category.  The fourth level (SCC 8 Description) specifies the particular emitting process.

For nonpoint sources there are four levels of source descriptions for each SCC, but associated with the first 2, 4, 7, and 10 digits of the codes. (So that is why in the “SCC Level to Report” dropdown box they give the choices of SCC 2, 4, 7, or 10—in this case, we want all the emissions for all of the SCC codes that have the same first 4 numbers.)

Nonpoint Source Example SCC: 2610030000 26-10-030-000 = 10-charactersFor each SCC, there are four levels of descriptions:

SCC  2 Description (26): Waste Disposal, Treatment, and Recovery SCC  4 Description (26-10): Open Burning SCC  7 Description (26-10-030): Residential SCC 10 Description (26-10-030-000): Household Waste

Selecting SCC 4 in this box gives me many more options.

I need to scroll up to get to the Stationary Source Fuel Combustion sources. Also, note that you can expand the columns by clicking on the header and dragging to the right to see the full column entry. And, you can click on the header to sort alphabetically or numerically.

This shows the residential grouping, but it is not further divided by fuel type. I am going to select SCC 7 in the Select SCC Level to Report dropdown box. Again, I need to scroll up to the Stationary Source Fuel Combustion sources.

This shows the different residential heating fuel types and that is what I want for my report. I am going to click on the Uncheck All button and then select only the residential heating sources.

Clicking on the Next button brings up this screen. I do not need to change anything in this screen because the Annual Reporting Period is already selected.

Clicking on the Next button brings up the screen where I can specify what pollutants I want to include in the report. I am only interested in criteria pollutants from residential heating, so I am only going to select the criteria pollutants, shown with a black font.

Clicking on the Next button brings up a screen where I can specify details on how I want the data displayed in the report. I am going to leave the defaults.

Clicking on the Finish button brings up the report. I am going to make the report bigger by using the dropdown box at the top of the screen. This report has 20 pages, as shown by the navigation arrows at the top of the screen. The first page of the report shows the CO emissions for the various residential heating sources in tabular format.

I am going to click the right arrow button at the top of the screen to go to the next page of the report. This page shows a graph of the CO emissions for the various residential heating sources. From this graph, I can see that residential wood heating contributes the most CO emissions of the residential heating sources.

Scrolling through the pages of this report, I can see that residential wood heating and residential natural gas heating are the top two emitters of criteria pollutants of the residential heating sources. If I was going to develop an EI for my area and I did not have the resources to inventory every residential heating source, I would make sure to include at least these two residential heating sources in the EI (QAPP NOTE: You can write a description of how you plan to use the TEISS reports to prioritize what sources you are going to include in your EI and put it in your QAPP). Click on the x button to close the report screen.

Video 6--TEISS Calculators: I want to briefly introduce the TEISS calculators. I want to view the TEISS calculators, so I am going to click on the Calc button in the TEISS toolbar. Important Note: This is only for viewing the calculators to determine what data you need to collect or to see what TEISS calculators are available. When you use the calculators to estimate emissions, you need to access them from the TEISS input view, aka the Linear Data Entry screen. This is because only when you access the TEISS calculators from input view can you import the emissions the TEISS calculator estimates into your TEISS project. More details to come on this in upcoming webinars.

This screen opens. I want to look at the residential woodstoves calculator to see what data I need to collect to estimate emissions for this source. I do this by expanding the 1.0 External Combustion Sources folder by clicking on the plus sign to the left of the folder. Then I click on 1.10 Residential Wood Stoves and get this screen.

I click on the Estimator button to open the data entry screen for the calculator. From this screen, I can tell I need to collect data on the type of woodstoves and the amount of fuel burned.

To learn more about these data elements, for example, what is meant by a conventional, pre-phase I woodstove, I can click the x button to close the calculator data entry window. Then if I scroll down on the page that is shown, I can find an online link to the source the calculator is based on. I highly recommend you read the source document for any of the calculators you use in your TEISS project to estimate emissions. (QAPP NOTE: If you are going to be estimating emissions for on-reservation sources with TEISS for your EI, you can write descriptions of the data you need to collect for each source you are going to include in your EI based on what you need to enter into the TEISS calculators, and include that in your QAPP).

Click on the Close button to close the calculators screen.

Homework: I have contacted Lakes Environmental, the TEISS developer, about establishing you as new TEISS users. You should have received an email from Lakes Environmental welcoming you to TEISS. This email has the link to obtain TEISS from with instructions on how to install TEISS. Your homework is to download and install TEISS. Email the instructors a screen capture of the opening screen of TEISS (To take a screen capture, press the Prnt Scrn button on your keyboard. Then open a new document in your word processing program. Paste the screen capture into the document by pressing the Ctrl and V buttons on your keyboard or select Paste from the Edit menu.). If you have any questions on the installation process, please let the instructors know.