Potential to Emit (PTE) Calculation Spreadsheets

These tools (in Microsoft Excel format) are designed to assist your facility in estimating its potential to emit (PTE) from various operations:

    Abrasive Blasting PTE

    Tool to assist businesses in calculating PTE for new (or existing projects) to determine if a construction approval or permit would be (or would have been) required.  It also contains a table for tracking and calculating a 12-month rolling total of actual abrasive media usage.  

    Air Curtain Incinerator PTE

    Tool to assist businesses in calculating the potential and actual air pollutant emissions from air curtain incinerator operations. The tool is designed to track hours of operation, amounts and types of materials burned, document ozone alert days, track performance test dates and document monthly qualitative assessments for the Class I operating permit.

    Boiler/Furnace PTE

    Tool to assist businesses in calculating the potential to emit air pollutants from a boiler or small furnace. Heat input capacity is entered in units of BTU/hour or horsepower.

    Engine PTE

    Updated 2023-Tools to assist businesses in calculating the potential to emit air pollutants or the actual emission of air pollutants from engines running on natural gas, gasoline, or diesel fuel.

    Grain Elevator PTE

    Updated 2023- These spreadsheets will guide country and terminal elevators through the process of determining the amount of PM and PM-10 their facility emits. It will calculate the potential-to-emit (for the entire facility and/or for new air-emitting equipment, operations, or structures) to indicate if a permit or approval is needed.

    Hemp Processing PTE

    Hemp processing can include several activities which would need to be evaluated for potential air emissions under the Kansas Air Quality Act and regulations. Operations producing primary and/or secondary products from hemp include equipment used to handle, dry, grind, and extract hemp byproducts, including cannabidiol, or CBD, and fiber materials to be used in the manufacture of products such as clothing, building materials, paper and bioplastics. This tool is intended to be used for estimating emissions (potential to emit) from hemp production and helps to evaluate the need for an air permit under Kansas air quality regulations. A companion guidance document has also been developed.  

    Painting/Coating PTE

    Tool to assist businesses in calculating the potential to emit air pollutants from a painting/coating operation. Designed for input based on purchase or usage amount. 

    Watch a 10-minute video tutorial on the painting/coating PTE calculator

    Plasma/Laser-Cutting PTE

    Tool to assist businesses in calculating both the potential to emit (PTE) and actual emissions from the source. It is designed to calculate a 12-month rolling total based on actual hours operated during each month for each plasma-/laser-cutting activity. It can be used in two ways, and it is recommended that a copy of two spreadsheets be used: one for PTE of new projects and a second for facility-wide calculation of actual emissions from total operations.

    Welding PTE

    Tool to assist businesses with calculating emissions from welding operations [both actual and potential to emit (PTE)]. Can be used to track 12-month rolling totals. Designed for entering data from purchasing records, equipment inventories, SDSs, or other supporting documentation.