Environmental Technology

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Environmental Technology Verification Program
(ETV)
Evelyn Hartzell
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
European Forum on Eco-Innovation Boosting
Eco-technologies through Verification
November 27, 2007 Paris, France
Evelyn Hartzell, Environmental Technology
Verification Program, US EPA , Cincinnati, Ohio,
USA
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Communicating verification results
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• Transparency is a core ETV value
• All methods and results are made publicly
  available
• Verification Reports Detailed results of an
  individual technology test.
• Verification Statements - Summaries of results
• Test/QA Plans - The experimental approach used to
  test a technology
• Protocols Generic approach to testing a class
  of technologies
• Confidential business information kept private

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Communicating verification results (cont.)

• Vendors are provided with
• Electronic copies of the verification report and
  statement to duplicate or post
• Use of the ETV logo and name if they agree to
  follow the logo use policy

• Logo use policy
• Identifies appropriate uses
• Language when writing or talking about ETV
• Prohibited uses
• To imply EPA endorsement, approval,
  certification, guarantee, or warrantee of the
  company, its products, its technologies, or its
  services.
• Consequences

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Outreach

• Performed at all levels EPA, verification
  organizations, stakeholders, and collaborators
• Venues
• ETV Web site
• Verification reports, test/QA plans, stakeholder
  meeting minutes, fact sheets, technology briefs,
  case studies, etc.
• Over 3 million hits per year 10 international
• Conferences, workshops, meetings
• Presentations, papers, exhibits
• Face-to-face meetings with collaborators and key
  clients
• Also facilitates capacity building

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Case Studies
Case Studies Booklets

• 15 case studies
• Show actual and project likely outcomes of
  verifications
• Summarizes available info
• vendor sales
• regulatory responses
• pollutant reduction
• science innovation
• projected health outcomes
• resource conservation
• economic and financial

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Demonstrated ETVs usefulness as a marketing tool

• Vendors - use ETV as a marketing and sales tool
• Vendor survey responses, 1995 -2001
• Testimonials - Ex. ETV is a tremendous
  advantage to a small business it creates
  technology awareness and provides a quality,
  credible referral Felicia Owens, MTI, 2004
• Self reporting Ex. PCI Membrane Systems Inc.
  installed at least five new treatment systems (gt
  1 million sales) based on ETV

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Demonstrated ETVs usefulness as a marketing tool
Stakeholders - ready markets for ETV results
. . . The Association of State Drinking Water
Administrators (ASDWA) and its members have
consistently supported the . . . DWS Center . . .
ASDWA relies heavily on these evaluations to
support the use of technologies and products in
our industry and assure a proper standard of
care. Jim Taft, ASDWA, 2007
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Selected outcomes
Selected Outcomes

• Eductor Vapor Recovery Unit (for oil and gas
  storage tanks) 1 verified, 11 installed since
  verification
• Emission reduction of 280 M std cubic ft/yr
  methane, 1700 tons/yr hazardous air pollutants,
  21,600 tons/yr volatile organic compounds
• Gas recovered valued at 6.3 M/yr
• Diesel Retrofit - 7 technologies verified in
  2003-5
• 6 reduce particulate matter (PM) by 21 to 95
• Verification makes eligible for EPAs National
  Clean Diesel Campaign grants
• 1,345 technologies installed as result of
  verification and grants
• At 10 market penetration, for 7 yr use
• reduction in PM calculated to be 9K to 31K tons
• avoided premature mortality calculated to be 683
  2,380 fewer deaths
• 5 -18B in monetary benefits calculated

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Contact information

• Evelyn Hartzell
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Environmental Technology Verification Program
• 26 West Martin Luther King Drive
• Cincinnati, Ohio 45268 USA
• hartzell.evelyn_at_epa.gov
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]