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May 1, 2010
COPEX 2010
The 2010 CONCAWE Oil Pipeline Operators Experience Exchange seminar (COPEX 2010) took place in Brusselson 25–26 March, continuing a long-established tradition started in the 1980s. The COPEX semin...
May 1, 2010
The impact of biodiesel on vehicle performance
The use of bio-derived blending components in road fuels is increasing around the world as a result of legislative initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reduce dependence on imported f...
May 1, 2010
Fuels for advanced combustion engines
Over the past two decades, air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles have fallen dramatically as a result of continuing improvements in vehicle, engine and after treatment technologies aided by the...
April 26, 2010
CONCAWE effluent speciation project
Report No. 3/10: In preparation for the implementation of the EU REACH regulation, a project was undertaken to transfer the high-resolution analytical method for determining hydrocarbon blocks in petr...
April 23, 2010
CONCAWE Review – Spring 2010
Volume 19 • Number 1: Content of this Concawe Review:
CONCAWE’S Role in REACH Registration. The ‘end of the beginning’ of the REACH registration process;
European Pollutant Release and...
April 7, 2010
Refinery BREF related environmental parameters for aqueous discharges from refineries in Europe
Report No. 2/10: This report is prepared as part of the Industry input to the revision process for the Refinery Best Available Technique (BAT) Reference Document (BREF) that is being undertaken by the...
January 13, 2010
Sulphur dioxide emissions from oil refineries in Europe (2006)
This report describes the results of the 2006 year survey into the sulphur pathways in European refining. This includes the distribution of sulphur in products, the capture and recovery of sulphur in...
November 21, 2009
Guidelines for handling and blending FAME
Report no. 9/09: This report provides guidance on the handling and blending of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME), as a neat product and at concentrations up to 10% v/v in diesel fuel. The major challeng...
November 1, 2009
New refinery effluent survey
Within the REACH registration process, registrants of a substance must submit a Chemicals Safety Report that includes a Chemical Safety Assessment (CSA).
If the CSA indicates that the substance...
November 1, 2009
CONCAWE sulphur survey
Since 1979 CONCAWE has conducted a regular fouryearly survey of its member companies to determine how the fate of sulphur through the refining process changes over time.
The last sulphur survey...
November 1, 2009
Downstream oil industry safety statistics
The collection and analysis of incident data is an essential element of a modern safety management system, and its importance is recognised throughout the oil industry. CONCAWE has been compiling s...
November 1, 2009
CONCAWE sulphur survey
Since 1979 CONCAWE has conducted a regular fouryearly survey of its member companies to determine how the fate of sulphur through the refining process changes over time.
The last sulphur survey...
October 23, 2009
CONCAWE Review • Autumn 2009
Volume 18 • Number 2 • Autumn 2009: At the end of May this year, I took over from Alain Heilbrunn as the Secretary General of CONCAWE. As I had hoped and expected, I have inherited an organisation...
October 21, 2009
Volatility and vehicle driveability performance of ethanol/gasoline blends: a literature review
Report no. 8/09: The effect of blending ethanol (up to 20% v/v) into gasoline on the volatility of the ethanol/gasoline blend and on the hot and cold weather vehicle driveability performance of these...
October 1, 2009
Benchmarking of refinery CO2 emissions
The EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) foresees a number of mechanisms for distributing emission allowances amongst market players. In the first and second emission trading periods under...
September 21, 2009
European downstream oil industry safety performance Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2008
Report no. 7/09: The fifteenth such report by CONCAWE, this issue includes statistics on work related personal injuries for the European downstream oil industry’s own employees as well as contractor...
September 20, 2009
European downstream oil industry safety performance Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2007
Report no. 6/09: The fourteenth such report by CONCAWE, this issue includes statistics on work-related personal injuries for the European downstream oil industry’s own employees as well as contracto...
June 17, 2009
Additional human exposure information for gasoline substance risk assessment (period 2002-2007)
Report no. 5/09: This report provides an update on human exposure information for gasoline-related activities for which previous assessments had suggested that exposure was either elevated or highly v...
May 1, 2009
Best Available Techniques (BAT) for the mineral oil and gas refineries
Industrial sites in Europe are required to have an operating permit issued under the national implementation of the IPPC Directive. The permit conditions require that the emissions to air and to wa...
May 1, 2009
Impact of marine fuels quality legislation on EU refineries at the 2020 horizon
Over the years the oil refining system in the EU has developed and adapted to meet the evolving demand, in both qualitative and quantitative terms, while coping with an ever-changing supply of crude o...
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