Teresa Harten, ETV Director

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Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)
Programhelping innovation, removing barriers

• Teresa Harten, ETV Director
• State-EPA Symposium on Environmental Innovation
  and Results
• January 24-25, 2006
• Denver, Colorado

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• Supplemental Slides

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ETV Helps Technology Commercialization and
Innovation
Research Proof of Development
Demonstration Verification
Commercialization/ Concept

Deployment
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ETV Verifications by Area/Media (1995-Present)
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Major ETV Center Verification Categories for FY
05/06

• Monitoring and Detection
• Rapid and/or continuous emission monitors for
  mercury, hydrogen sulfide, dioxin personal
  impactors for PM beach pathogens
• Drinking Water
• Removal of pathogens and arsenic
• Air Pollution Control
• Diesel engine retrofit technology, dust
  suppressants, baghouse filtration products
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction
• Diesel fuel economy devices, voltage regulator,
  geothermal water heating system
• Water Quality Protection
• Storm water treatment technologies, water
  infrastructure rehabilitation, ballast water
  treatment
• Pollution Prevention
• Low emissions coatings and equipment

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Verification definition

• To establish or prove the truth of the
  performance of a technology under specific,
  predetermined criteria or protocols and adequate
  QA procedures.
• ETV does not
• Pass / fail,
• Approve, or
• Certify technologies

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New in 2005Environmental and Sustainable
Technology Evaluations (ESTE)

• Targeted to high-risk, Agency needs EPA chooses
  technology categories to verify
• EPA initiates and directly manages verifications
• Scoped to include all environmental technologies,
  exception remediation (already covered by SITE
  (Superfund))
• Require sustainability metrics as part of
  criteria for sustainability pilot

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ESTE projects started in 2005

• Pesticide Drift Reduction Technologies
• Microbial Resistant Building Materials Gypsum
  Wallboard
• Biomass Co-fired Boilers
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for
  Tracking Hazardous Wastes Across International
  Borders
• Anaerobic Digesters for Animal Manure

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ETV Verification Process
With stakeholders, develop test protocols,
quality- assurance test plans AND
EPA, verification organizations, stakeholders OR
EPA-only (ESTE)...
Conduct technology testing


Identify vendors, collaborators
Identify priority technology categories
Write verification report
www.epa.gov/etv
ETV Outreach
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Getting to ETV Outcomes
Outputs Outcomes

• Number of protocols and verifications
• Value to potential buyers, regulators and vendors
  
• Use of better technologies reduced emissions
  because of ETV
• Reduced exposure reduced risk because of ETV
• Improved health/environmental quality because of
  ETV

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www.epa.gov/etv
Hits/year
In 2005, the ETV Web Site received 1.66 million
hits, resulting in an average of over 138,000
hits per month, approximately 9 percent of which
were from entities outside the US.
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Vendor Survey Resultspilot period 1995-2001

• 66 of 86 vendors with verified technologies
  responded (77 response)
• Nearly all were using, or planned to use, ETV
  information in product marketing
• 85 said verification would not be as valuable if
  EPA was not associated with it
• 73 believe customers will be impressed by ETV
  verification
• 37 said verification takes too long, the most
  common negative comment
• 92 would recommend ETV to others

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Case Study Eductor Vapor Recovery Unit (EVRU)

• 12,700 oil and gas storage tank batteries emit an
  23.3 bscfy of methane 7,000 tpy of HAPs and gt
  22,000 tpy of VOCs
• ETV verified COMM Engineerings Eductor Vapor
  Recovery Unit in 2002
• 99.9 of the vent gas was recovered during 5
  months of testing
• EVRU has since been installed at 11 facilities
• Emissions reductions of 280 MMscfy of methane,
  1,700 tpy of HAPs, and 21,600 tpy of VOCs
• Recovered natural gas valued at 6.3 million
  /year
• bscfy billion standard cubic feet per year
• MMscfy million standard cubic feet per year

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ETV International Activities

• 1999-2001 ETV-sponsored training workshops held
  in US, Thailand and India, for central and
  southeast Asia countries interested in starting
  programs
• 2003 invited trip to Japan ETV kick-off meeting
  
• 2004 Letter of intent to cooperate with
  Singapore on ETV protocols
• 2004 ETV National Stakeholder/Team Meeting
  included international session with Singapore,
  EU, and Korea
• 2005 invited trip to European Commission
  verification meeting, 2005/6 - invited as
  advisory board member to EC verification pilot
  program

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ETV International, cont.

• 2005 US ETV hosted ETV International Forum
  in Washington, DC - to begin discussions on
  potential collaborations, harmonization, and
  reciprocity
• Five other national/international programs
  represented (Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore,
  European Union)
• 12 other countries represented
• 2006 Environment Canada to host follow-on ETV-I
  meeting in Vancouver, March 28
• Same invitation list with additional focus on
  India, Bangladesh and others in South Asia
• 2006 Invited trip to Israel to brief
  environmental industry and government on ETV