Patent Document ID: 20020065581
Application ID: 09725467
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computerized method for determining the optimum strategy for controlling pollutant emissions from an electric power generating plant, the method comprising the steps of: providing a historical data base for the electric power generating plant; providing real time data; predicting projected power generation requirements for a user specified future time period by using the historical data base and the real time data; calculating a baseline projected emission rate for each pollutant over the user specified future time period using the projected power generation requirements; displaying the baseline projected emission rate for each pollutant over the user specified future time period to a user; displaying a pollutant emission limit for each pollutant over the user specified future time period; displaying a list of pollution control options to the user; calculating a projected emission rate for each pollutant over the user specified future time period for a user selected pollution control option; and displaying the projected emission rate over the user specified future time period for the user selected pollution control option.