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March 12, 2015
Spark versus compression ignition in a new energy environment
Dieselisation of the fuel market is accelerating as commercial transport increases and as the fuel consumption of new passenger cars decreases. At the same time, the recent US revolution in shale gas...
March 12, 2015
Abating fugitive VOC emissions more efficiently
This article summarizes the Concawe study, ‘Techniques for detecting and quantifying fugitive emissions—results of comparative field studies’, that compares the two BAT (best available technique...
March 12, 2015
Dermal exposures associated with service station refuelling activities: preliminary evaluation
Report no. 14/14: This study investigates dermal exposure to petrol and diesel fuel in service station attendants responsible for the refuelling of automobiles. In phase 1 of the study, six attendants...
December 8, 2014
Towards the establishment of a protocol for the quantification of VOC diffuse emissions using open-path remote monitoring techniques: DIAL monitoring of a VOC source of known emission flux
Report no. 12/14: This report provides the results of a programme of work undertaken to compare the controlled rate of release of propane from a simulated floating roof tank with the flux determined u...
November 8, 2014
The estimated forward cost of EU legislation for the EU refining industry
Report no. 11/14: This Concawe report provides an estimation of the cost burden imposed on EU refineries over the period from 2010 to 2020 by a number of EU legislative and implementing acts.
It is...
October 23, 2014
CONCAWE Review – Year of air 2014 (special issue)
The Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution (2005) has been under review since 2011 with the first of five stakeholder meetings taking place in January 2012. The underpinning work is very complex and rel...
September 25, 2014
JEC Biofuels Study: 2014 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...
September 25, 2014
CONCAWE Review – Spring 2014
As the world’s population moves towards 9 billion, societal expectation is that we find solutions to the fundamental problems of meeting increasing energy requirements whilst reducing the impact on...
September 25, 2014
Review of recent health effect studies with nitrogen dioxide
Report no. 9/14: This report focuses on published studies that have examined the epidemiologic associations of ambient air exposures to nitrogen dioxide and the occurrence of acute and chronic health...
August 29, 2014
CBA under the microscope
Concawe Comments on the Key Submissions Associated with 5th Stakeholder Expert Group of the Air Quality Policy Review held in Brussels, 3rd April 2013
August 28, 2014
Concentration Response Functions for Morbidity Endpoints under the Project HRAPIE
A review of the concentration response functions for morbidity endpoints under the HRAPIE project was conducted.
August 22, 2014
European downstream oil industry safety performance Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2013
Report no. 8/14: In this twentieth annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance, 2013 statistics are presented on work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own employ...
May 21, 2014
Impact of FAME on the performance of three Euro 4 light-duty diesel vehicles – Part 2: Unregulated emissions
Report no. 7/14: In 2009, EU legislation mandated that 10% renewable energy must be used in road transportation by 2020, primarily through the use of bio-blending components. Fordiesel fuel blending,...
May 19, 2014
Impact of FAME on the performance of three Euro 4 light-duty diesel vehicles – Part 1: Fuel consumption and regulated emissions
Report no. 6/14: By 2020, EU legislation will require that 10% of the total transport fuel energy demand is met by the use of renewable energy, primarily by blending bio-components. Although many type...
May 16, 2014
Science and Policy interface: role of integrated assessment modelling (IAM) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM) has been at the heart of European air quality policy development for more than two decades3. Such tools provide a useful framework for policy makers to connect th...
May 16, 2014
Ecosystem services under the microscope
Ecosystem approaches can be defined as ’approaches to environmental management and policy making that aim to compare costs and benefits of management and policy options on the basis of an analysis o...
May 16, 2014
CBA under the microscope
CONCAWE’s assessment of latest scientific information on valuation of benefits from aspects influencing mortality and morbidity factors reveals that proposed benefit numbers applied in recent Cost B...
May 16, 2014
Uncertainties under the microscope
This section is a summary of a paper prepared by CONCAWE as a contribution to the 4th meeting of the Stakeholder Expert Group on the EU Air Policy review. The study is based on the results of extensiv...
May 15, 2014
The future of water quality management for the refining industry
IntroductionIt is often assumed that the environment is deteriorating due to continuous emissions from industry and that new adverse effects can be attributed to chemical mixtures and unknown subst...
May 15, 2014
Petrochemical feedstocks: the cornerstone of competitiveness
Future outlookThe future of much of Europe’s chemical industry depends heavily upon the availability of affordable petrochemical feedstocks. In the Middle East, where petrochemical feedstocks areÂ...
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