Patent ID: 7603210

Claim:
An emission management system for managing emissions from a vessel adapted to travel on water, the emission management system comprising: (a) a user interface adapted to receive from a user a proposed uptake location, proposed emission data, a proposed discharge location, and an actual discharge location, and further adapted to receive actual emission data; (b) a regulation compliance system in communication with the user interface, the regulation compliance system adapted to receive the actual or proposed discharge location from the user interface and generate regulation compliance data indicating a set of regulations of the actual or proposed discharge location that govern the actual or proposed emission; and (c) an emission management system processor in communication with the user interface and regulation compliance system, the emission management system processor adapted to receive the discharge location, the actual emission data, and the regulation compliance data and determine if the actual emission is in compliance with the set of regulations and further adapted to review the proposed emission data and proposed discharge location and determine if the proposed emission is in compliance with the regulations of the proposed discharge location.