CONCEPTION AND APPLICATION OF A MATERIAL- FLOW MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COST-EFFECTIVE REDUCTION STRATEGIES FOR OZONE PRECURSOR SUBSTANCES

Presently, a lack of quantitative instruments for the development and realization of options for environmental policy-making is evident. Thi s statement holds true also for the development and economical evaluat ion of emission reduction of VOC (volatile organic compounds), which a re important precursor substances for ground-level ozone in summer-tim e, and, therefore, in the focus of today's environmental discussions. In this paper, an optimizing material-flow and energy-flow model for t he creation of cost-effective reduction strategies of VOC emissions is formulated, Furthermore, this model is applied on the sector ''surfac e treatment of wood''.