Human Exposure Modeling - Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure Model (HAPEM)

The HAPEM has been designed to estimate inhalation exposure for selected population groups to various air toxics. Through a series of calculation routines, the model makes use of ambient air concentration data, indoor/outdoor microenvironment concentration relationships, population data, and human activity pattern data to estimate an expected range of inhalation exposure concentrations for groups of individuals.

Two versions of this model are currently available: HAPEM7, and the latest version, HAPEM8.

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• User's Guides for HAPEM7 and HAPEM8

• Supporting Documents. 

  • Development of microenvironmental factors for hazardous air pollutants in 37 microenvironments.

  • Background information, including the development of model versions since HAPEM4.

  • EPA Science Advisory Board review (pdf) (318 KB) of the use of HAPEM4 in EPA's National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment for 1996, and material associated with that review.