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Smkinven allocates multiple of the seasonal emissions if unit has one active hour of CEMs for that season #38

Closed christos-e closed 2 years ago

christos-e commented 3 years ago

CEMs for winter season may have a single value that causes smkinven to put multiple of the seasonal emissions in each hour of the day that contains the active hour.

christos-e commented 2 years ago

A series of tests were performed using the 2016v2 EGU "all inclusive" package. The issue is reported for Future Year 2023 wintertime EGU sector simulations. The issue was reported for unit 55271 CT2 and CT3. For CT2, the first hour of December has heat input values but the subsequent hours are all null. Moving that value to December 4 resulted to higher estimates for all units in PHOUR files. Moving the CT3 values as well, resulted to values higher than original for all units as well (but different from the previous test). Noted that 55271 has 3 CEMS stacks and one non-CEM.

christos-e commented 2 years ago

The issue was found to be related to CEMSUM mismatch with the HOURLY CEMS inputs.