DREAM

In 1996 the DREAM project (DREAM: Dose-related Risk and Effect Assessment Model) was initiated to study unresolved issues in produced water risk assessment: effects of long-term exposure to low concentrations of mixtures of contaminants, with the aim of developing a computerised risk assessment model .

In 1999, a new path was added to this program focusing on the development of a tool for produced water management, capable of comparing scenarios of mitigating measures. This resulted in two different procedures for risk assessment in one computer tool. The first one is a screening tool using PNEC and SSDs. The second one is a biology based approach based on DEBtox.

Although DREAM is designed for modelling the environmental risk of the discharge of produced water, it can also be applied to other point sources. The model requires basic emission data and chemical/physical properties of the discharged pollutants. The model is supplied with historic data sets on winds and currents of the North Sea, which is required for the calculation of the dispersion of the pollutants.

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