United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
EPA 510-F-93-001
May 1993
Solid Waste And Emergency Response (OS-420WF)
xvEPA Hyperventilate
A Software Guidance
System Created For
Vapor Extraction
Systems For
Apple Macintosh And
IBM PC-Compatible
Computers
Pressure
Gauge
Air Bleed
Line
| Vacuum
w Pump
Flow
Meter
Vapor V/ell
Contaminated
Soil
Illustration from Hyperventilate Software
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United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
EPA 510-F-93-001
May 1993
Solid Waste And Emergency Response (OS-420WF)
&EPA Hyperventilate
A Software Guidance
System Created For
Vapor Extraction
Systems For
Apple Macintosh And
IBM PC-Compatible
Computers
Pressure
Gauge
Air Bleed
Line
Vacuum
Pump
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Flow
Meter
Vapor Well
Contaminated
Soil
Illustration from Hyperventilate Software
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What Is Hyperventilate?
Hyperventilate is user-friendly software that
can help you use vapor extraction (soil vent-
ing) technology. This software guides the user
through a structured thought process that
involves:
• Identifying and characterizing required
site-specific data,
• Deciding if soil venting is appropriate at a
specific site,
• Evaluating air permeability test results,
• Calculating the minimum number of
vapor extraction wells needed, and
• Illustrating how the results at a specific
site might differ from the ideal case.
Hyperventilate will not completely design
your vapor extraction system, tell you exactly
how many days it should be operated, or
predict the future. Hyperventilate is both an
educational tool for the novice environmental
professional and a functional tool for more
experienced users. It performs necessary
calculations and contains "help cards" that
define the equations used, make the necessary
unit conversions, and give supplementary
information on related topics. In addition,
Hyperventilate contains a list of 62 com-
pounds that can be updated by the user to a
maximum of 400 compounds.
What Do I Need To Run It?
Hyperventilate (v. 1.01) for Apple Macintosh
requires an Apple Macintosh (Plus or later)
computer with at least 1 MB RAM (2 MB
preferred) and the Apple HyperCard program,
version 2.0 or higher.
Hyperventilate (v.2.0) for Microsoft
Windows/Spinnaker PLUS requires an IBM
PC-compatible computer with an 80386
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Why Hyperventilate?
Hyperventilate software was developed by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and Shell Oil Company under a 1990 Coop-
erative Research and Development Agreement
under the Federal Technology Transfer Act.
EPA has evaluated Hyperventilate and is
facilitating the distribution of the software and
manual because it has found that they can be
helpful tools, especially when teaching users
about in-situ soil venting and when guiding
them through the structured thought process
used to evaluate the applicability of soil
venting at a particular site.
Hyperventilate is based on the article "A Practical
Approach to the Design, Operation, and Monitoring
of Soil Venting Systems" by P. C. Johnson, C. C.
Stanley, M. W. Kemblowski, J. D. Colthart, and D.
L. Byers, Ground Water Monitoring Review, Spring
1990, pp. 159 - 178.
EPA and Shell Oil Company make no warranties, either
express or implied, regarding the HyperVentilate computer
software package, its merchantability, or its fitness for any
particular purpose. EPA and Shell Oil Company do not
warrant that this software will be error-free or operate
without interruption. EPA and Shell Oil Company do
encourage testing of this product.
At this time, EPA does not intend to provide technical
support for, to update, or to fix any bugs that might be
found in this software. Neither the software nor the users
manual is copyrighted.
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How Do I Order?
A package consisting of a users manual and
either a 3.5" Macintosh disk or a 3.5" high
density IBM PC-compatible disk is available
from the U.S. Government Printing Office
(GPO), Superintendent of Documents, P.O.
Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.
Stock numbers:
For IBM: 055-000-00427-7, $22
For Macintosh: 055-000-00403-0, $17
An order form appears in this leaflet.
In addition, EPA's Office of Research and
Development has published a report entitled
Decision-Support Software for Soil Vapor
Extraction Technology Application:
Hyperventilate (publication number EPA/600/
R-93/028). This report includes an overview of
soil vapor extraction principles and procedures,
a case study of an application of the software, a
sensitivity analysis of the software's outputs,
and a users manual. A package consisting of
the report (which includes the users manual)
and both the Macintosh and IBM PC-compat-
ible disks or the report only is available from
the National Technical Information Service,
5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161,
703 487-4650.
Order numbers:
Both versions of the Hyperventilate soft-
ware can be downloaded (in compressed
form) from the following electronic bulletin
boards:
EPA's Cleanup Information Bulletin Board
(CLU-IN)—no charge
Data transmission 301 589-8366
System operator 301 589-8368
EPA's Alternative Treatment Technology
Information Center (ATTIC)—no charge
Data transmission 301 670-3808
System operator 301 670-6294
GPO's Federal Bulletin Board
(for deposit account holders)
Data transmission 202 512-1387
System operator 202 512-1524
CompuServe (Earth Forum,
Wastes/Toxics Library)
Assistance 1 800 848-8990
Report and both disks: PB93-502664/AS, $140
Report only: PB93-134880/AS,$27
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