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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...
May 15, 2016
Critical review of the relationship between IP346 and dermal carcinogenic activity
Report no. 6/16: The IP 346 method was adopted as a screening assay to predict the carcinogenicity of specific petroleum streams. Its application is based on a strong correlation with results from ove...
May 9, 2016
Analysis of N-, O-, and S- heterocyclics in petroleum products using GCxGC with specific detection
Report no. 2/16: REACH dossiers on all p etroleum productcategories were compiled and submitted by Concawe in 2010. ECHA subsequently raised co ncerns regarding the tech nical justification of the ass...
March 14, 2016
The Natural Attenuation of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters in Soil and Groundwater (report no. 5/16)
Report no. 5/16: With the increasing use of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) in automotive fuels there is growing interest in the fate and effects of biodiesel, and biodiesel/ petroleum distillate blen...
March 9, 2016
Review of recent health effect studies with sulphur dioxide
Report no. 4/16: This report focuses on published toxicology and epidemiology studies that have examined the relationship between sulphur dioxide exposures and the occurrence of acute and chronic heal...
February 17, 2016
Sulphur dioxide emissions from oil refineries in Europe (2010)
Report no. 1/16: This report describes the results of the 2010 year survey into the sulphur pathways in European refining. This includes the distribution of sulphur in products, the capture and recove...
December 18, 2015
Concawe Review 24.2
Find out the contents of this Concawe Review:
Estimating the forward cost of EU legislation for the EU refining industry;
Estimating the marginal CO2 footprints of refinery products;
Natu...
December 17, 2015
Monitoring method for inhalation exposure to gas oil vapour and aerosol
Report no. 8/15: A study was conducted to characterize sampling and analysis methods for the measurement of the personal workplace exposure concentration of gas oil vapours and aerosols and in particu...
December 17, 2015
Literature review and practical experiences on continous dust monitoring at low concentrations
This report reviews the techniques available for the measurement of dust from gas-firing combustion in refineries and identifies challenges associated with the continuous monitoring of these dust emis...
December 11, 2015
Evaluation of Whole Effluent Bioassays for Assessment of Hydrocarbon Ecotoxicity – Phase III Stream Study
Report no. 7/15: Toxicity predictions based on laboratory- based Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) tests have been assessed by dosing outdoor stream mesocosms with unmodified and fortified refinery efflue...
October 5, 2015
Techniques for detecting and quantifying fugitive emissions – results of comparative field studies
Report no. 6/15: Sniffing and Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) methods for the detection of refinery fugitive VOC emissions were compared under field conditions. Both of these methods are described as Best A...
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