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January 22, 1989
Managing safety
Report no. 4/89: Managing safety is an integral and essential part of the total management of a successful enterprise in the oil industry. Company safety policies set the objectives to achieve this, a...
January 22, 1989
Emergency planning – guidance notes
Report no. 2/89: These are two more guidance notes in the CONCAWE Emergency Response Planning series. The first note is on training, exercises and rehearsal of emergency plans. For an installation's e...
November 21, 1988
The control of vehicle evaporative and refuelling emissions – the “on-board” system
Report no. 88/62: In this research programme to further investigate "on-board"control of evaporative Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions from gasoline fuelled vehicles, an Opel Ascona and a Hond...
July 22, 1988
Emergency planning guidance notes – refinery emergency planning
Report no. 6/88: This is the sixth Guidance Note in the series being issued by CONCAWE on the general subject of major hazards with specific reference to implementation requirements of the Seveso Dire...
June 22, 1988
Emergency planning guidance notes – content of emergency plans – planning for mutual aid
Report no. 5/88: These are two of a series of Guidance Notes being issued by CONCAWE on the general subject of major hazards with specific reference to the implementation of the requirements of the Se...
March 13, 1988
Regenerative flue gas desulphurization in European oil refineries – cost estimates based on a European application
Report no. 3/88: The OMV refinery at Schwechat, Austria, commissioned in 1985 a Wellman-Lord regenerative flue gas desulphurization plant (FGD) to control emissions essentially from the power generati...
January 13, 1988
Capital and operating cost estimating aspects of environmental control technology – residue hydrodesulphurisation as a case example
Report no. 88/51: Capital and operating cost estimates require a defined data framework to allow comparative scrutiny and meaningful correlation to be made with other estimates for the same and altern...
November 22, 1987
Emergency planning guidance notes
Report no. 11/87: These are three of a series of Guidance Notes to be issued by CONCAWE on the general subject of major hazards with specific reference t o the implementation of the requirements of th...
November 21, 1987
Diesel fuel quality and its relationship with emissions from diesel engines
Report no. 10/87: CONCAWE predicts future (year 2000) diesel fuel properties to essentially in the range of 43 to 54 cetane number (median value: 48.5) and 0.825 to 0.870 density (median value: 0.846)...
September 21, 1987
An investigation into evaporative hydrocarbon emissions from European vehicles
Report no. 87/60: The report covers an experimental programme to determine evaporative hydrocarbon emission levels from a range of modern European cars, and the effects of various fuel and vehicle par...
September 13, 1987
Sulphur emissions from small stationary oil combustion plant and the availability of low sulphur fuel oil in the EEC
Report no. 87/61: This report deals with sulphur emissions from combustion plant of capacities less than 50 MW/h and the possible effect the implementation of the EEC Large Combustion Plant Directive...
September 13, 1987
Volatile organic compound emissions in western Europe: control options and their cost-effectiveness for gasoline vehicles, distribution and refining
Report no. 6/87: This report summarises the conclusions drawn by CONCAWE from its recent work on volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions in Western Europe.
The underlying data are published by CO...
June 21, 1987
A survey of exposures to gasoline vapour
Report no. 4/87: This report presents data on 540 personal gasoline vapour exposure measurements collected in 13 European countries by an industrial hygiene task force during 1984 and 1985 and stored...
February 21, 1987
Effects of skin contact with gasoline containing methanol
Report no. 87/54: The use of methanol as a blending component in gasoline raises two questions concerning potential health hazards from skin contact with liquid fuel:
Is gasoline containing metha...
January 21, 1987
The health experience of workers in the petroleum manufacturing and distribution industry
Report no. 2/87: A review over one hundred papers on the health effects of workers engaged in the manufacture and distribution of gasoline revealed inconsistent results. This may, in part, be due to t...
January 13, 1987
Cost-effectiveness of hydrocarbon emission controls in refineries from crude oil receipt to product dispatch
Report no. 87/52: CONCAWE has recognised that, despite the relatively small contribution to hydrocarbon emissions in Europe arising from petroleum refining and distribution, there is need for document...
October 21, 1986
Future diesel fuel quality
Report no. 86/71: CCMC is providing information regarding fuel quality requirements of diesel engines in relation engine design characteristics and to emission and noise control.
On the other hand,...
October 21, 1986
Health aspects of worker exposure to oil mists
Report no. 86/69: The current Threshc lue (TLV) for worker exposure to oil mist recommended by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) is an 8-hour time-weighted average...
October 13, 1986
US experience of hydrocarbon and NOx, emissions control
Report no. 86/70: This paper summarises the presentation given by Dr L.J. McCabe in October 1985 at the CONCAWE Seminar on "Atmospheric emissions and their effects on the environment in Europe with pa...
October 13, 1986
Measured data on NOx, emissions in European refineries
Report no. 6/86: Recent NO concentration measurements provided by CONCAWE member companies, confirm earlier estimates of oil refinery NOx emissions.
For 1985, emissions from refineries are calculat...
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