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February 7, 2017
Concawe Review 25.2
Contents of this Concawe Review:
A review of REACH registration for petroleum substances in 2016. Addressing the tensions that REACH presents for the regulatory compliance industry
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February 7, 2017
A review of REACH registration for petroleum substances in 2016
Ten years on — addressing the tensions that the REACH regulation has created for the regulatory compliance community....
February 7, 2017
Downstream oil industry safety statistics for 2015
The 2015 safety statistics report presents data on personal injures and process safety, highlighting trends over the past 22 years of data collection....
February 7, 2017
Optical gas imaging: from qualitative to quantitative
New technology capable of quantifying fugitive emissions using infrared imaging may eventually serve as a full replacement for Method 21....
January 26, 2017
Experimental evaluation of the flux chamber technique to determine VOC emissions from a water surface
Report no. 3/17: Tests have been undertaken under controlled conditions in a wind tunnel to compare the emission fluxes from an open tank containing an aqueous toluene solution with those determined u...
January 18, 2017
EU renewable energy targets in 2020: 2015 legislative update
This report is the result of the JEC Biofuels Programme, a joint study carried out by JRC (the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission), EUCAR (the European Council for Automotive R&D) an...
January 10, 2017
An evaluation of an optical gas imaging system for the quantification of fugitive hydrocarbon emissions
Report no. 2/17: This report provides the results of a preliminary study undertaken to test the performance of a quantitative optical gas imaging (QOGI) system. This has been developed to measure the...
January 4, 2017
Estimating the marginal CO2 intensities of EU refinery products
Report no. 1/17: Estimating the CO2 emissions associated with production of individual oil products is challenging inasmuch as they are produced simultaneously through a combination of interrelated pr...
December 8, 2016
Impact of FAME Content on the Regeneration Frequency of Diesel Particulate Filters (DPFs)
Report no. 14/16: Modern diesel passenger cars utilize Diesel Particulate Filters (DPFs) to reduce particulate matter exhaust emissions. In addition oxygenated fuels and fuel blending components such...
December 6, 2016
Phase 1: Effect of Fuel Octane on the Performance of Two Euro 4 Gasoline Passenger Cars
Report no. 13/16: This report details work that was carried out to study the response of modern gasoline passenger cars on octane. The objective of this phase 1 of the study was to investigate the eff...
November 8, 2016
Concawe and EWF position on the 4th version of the EU Commission Recommendation on the monitoring of mineral oil hydrocarbons in food and materials and articles intended to come into contact with food
Concawe and EWF welcome the initiative of the EU Commission to monitor mineral hydrocarbons and materials and articles intended to come into contact with food.
This initiative is in line with our o...
September 19, 2016
Marine Fuel Facts
Learn more about Marine Fuels. Background Information:
Background on Shipping
Sources of Atmospheric Sulphur Emissions
Marine Fuel Regulations
Current Situation, Alternatives and Possibl...
August 25, 2016
European downstream oil industry safety performance – Statistical summary of reported incidents 2015
Report no. 12/16: In this twenty-second annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance, 2015 statistics are presented on work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own e...
August 5, 2016
Concawe Review 25.1
These are the contents on this Concawe Review:
The impact of emission reduction scenarios on air quality limit values. A study of the air quality compliance issues for PM and NO
Effect of fuel...
July 1, 2016
Urban Air Quality Study
Report no. 11/16: An exploration into the effect of emission reduction scenarios on compliance with the ambient air quality limit values for the EU-27 countries in urban environments....
June 30, 2016
Gasoline Direct Injection Particulate Study
Report no. 10/16: Two modern Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) light duty vehicles have been tested to investigate the effect of oxygenates (mainly ethanol) on particulates - both mass and number, fuel...
June 23, 2016
Emission factors for metals from combustion of refinery fuel gas and residual fuel oil
Report no. 9/16: This report provides emission factors for nine metals (arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium and zinc) emitted to atmosphere during the combustion of ref...
June 20, 2016
Environmental fate and effects of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Report no. 8/16: Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) and Fluoroprotein (FP)/ Film Forming Fluoroprotein Foam (FFFP) foam have been used since the 1960s and 1970s, respectively, for the suppression of cla...
May 25, 2016
Assessing the aquatic toxicity of petroleum products: comparison of PETROTOX calculations and SPME-GC screening
Report No. 3/16: Using detailed two-dimensional chromatography (GCxGC) analysis of a set of petroleum product samples of Gas Oils, Residual Aromatic Extracts (RAE) and Bitumen categories, PETROTOX pre...
May 19, 2016
Assessment of petroleum streams for thyroid toxicity
The thyroid gland, and its associated endocrine hormones, is a growing area of interest in regulatory toxicology due to its important role in metabolism, growth and development. This report presents a...
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