Process Unit Areas

On the Process Areas form, set up groups of process units for reporting and internal tracking. These groups are independent of any production units and emission units, so a process unit can belong to one or more groups at the same time.

Your process unit areas could be physical locations, such as all of the process units in a plant area, or conceptual, such as all of the process units that were recently installed. You must also designate a type for the process unit area. For physical locations, you might designate a building or a room. For conceptual groups, you might designate a date range over which the process units were installed.

Process unit areas can also be used to enter internal plant IDs for your process units if you assign one process unit to one process unit area. Before establishing process unit areas, validate your area types on the Process Unit Area Types form.

To enter process unit areas

1. Use one of the following paths in the Navigation Tree to access the Process Areas list:

Chemical Inventory module

1. • Click Data Entry > Storage Area Information > Process Areas.

Compliance Manager module

1. • Click Data Entry > Validation > Process Areas.

Air, Waste modules

2. • Click Data Entry > Process Unit Information > Process Areas.

2. Click the New button.

3. Select an Enterprise Entity from the list.

4. Select an Area Type from the list.
   
   If the applicable value is not listed, click the Ellipsis button and add it.

5. Type an Area Name and a Description for the process area.

6. Click Save.

7. Expand the Process Units section when necessary to assign process units to the process area. Otherwise, skip to step 11.
   
   Tip:  Process units can also be associated with process unit areas on the Process Unit form.

8. Click Add Process Units.

9. Click the check box adjacent to a process unit to select it. Remove a selection by clicking the check box to clear it. Only process units with a checkmark in the check box adjacent to the unit name will be added.

10. Click the Add Process Units button.
    
    Each assigned process unit is displayed as a line item in the Process Units section with a link to the Process Unit form. Click the Delete button adjacent to the line item to remove an assignment. Click the link to open the Process Unit form for the process unit.

11. Expand the Location section if the area is a physical location and use the following guidelines to enter location information:

1. • Type Latitude and Longitude degrees, minutes, and seconds in the appropriate fields and select a directional abbreviation from the list.

   • Enter the UTM Zone, Northing and Easting coordinates.

12. Click Save.