Concawe Reports
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European downstream oil industry safety performance
Report no. 8/23: The 2022 annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance presents work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own employees and contractors and proces...
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Three-way catalyst performance using LPG with two different sulphur levels
Report no. 7/23: An experimental programme was carried out to determine the long-term impact of the level of sulphur present in LPG on the performance of three-way catalytic converters (TWCs) in t...
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Aviation: technologies and fuels to support climate ambitions towards 2050
Report no. 5/23: In 2019, the aviation sector directly employed 11.3 million people worldwide. If also accounting for the associated indirect, induced, and catalytic jobs, aviation enabled a total o...
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Biodiversity Impact Assessment of future biomass provision for biofuel production – Phase 2a
Biodiversity preservation has become a significant topic in Europe due to the increasing demand for more sustainable goods. Concawe, as part of its research activity in biomass availability and mo...
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Evaluation of aquatic toxicity monitoring techniques for refinery effluents
Report No. 4/23. This report identifies and evaluates a selection of in vivo and in vitro aquatic toxicity testing methods, in order to assess which tests could present an interest if included in a te...
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Revising ambient air quality standards – the implications for compliance in Europe towards 2050
Report no. 3/23: The European Commission (EC) is currently in the process of revising the EU Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Directives with the aim to set more strict ambient air quality standards (AAQS) i...
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The impact of shipping emissions to urban air quality in Europe – Detailed port-city analysis
Report no. 2/23: The report presents the results from a recent project Concawe conducted with TNO that used modelling to assess the influence of shipping emissions on the air quality in 19 selected Eu...
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Guidance for diffuse VOC emission determination following EN 17628:2022
Report no. 1/23: This document addresses the periodic determination of diffuse emissions of non-methane volatile hydrocarbon compounds from refineries by means of remote sensing. A recent European sta...
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A Mapping of Technology Options for Sustainable Energies and Powertrains for Road Transport
In December 2022, the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC) adopted during its plenary meeting a new document entitled “A Mapping of Technology Options for Sustainable Energies...
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Guidance to Registrants on Methods for the Identification of Petroleum UVCB Substances for REACH
Report no. 19/22: Following recent revisions to Annex VI of EU REACH Regulation No. 1907/2006, this report describes the information which registrants should now provide in Sections 1.2 and 1.4 of the...
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Future diesel-like renewable fuels – A literature review
Report no. 18/22: IFP Energies Nouvelles was commissioned by Concawe to identify novel sustainable liquid fuels pathways by 2030 for heavy duty trucks applications. The study consists of an extensive...
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E-Fuels: A techno-economic assessment of European domestic production and imports towards 2050 (Concawe Report 17/22)
Report no. 17/22: Concawe and Aramco have jointly commissioned this study, aiming to conduct a techno-environmental (Part 1) and economic (Part 2) analysis of different e-fuels pathways produced in di...
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Assessment of Chemical Oxygen Demand/Total Organic Carbon (COD/TOC) ratios in refinery effluents
Report no. 16/22: Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) analysis is one of the most commonly used analytical methods to indirectly measure organic pollutants in effluent waters. The standard COD methods use po...
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Waste to products – Technology and economic assessment (phase 1)
The EMG and Soil Wastes and Groundwater group (SWG) of the EI and Concawe have commissioned E4tech to conduct a technical analysis of waste-to-products (WTP) technologies that could be integrated with...
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European downstream oil industry safety performance
Report no. 8/22: The 2021 annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance presents work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own employees and contractors and process sa...
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Estimating the CO2 intensities of EU refinery products: Statistical Regression Methodology
Report no. 15/22: This study aims at estimating the CO2 intensity of petroleum products at the gate of an average EU refinery (refining step of the production process, excluding upstream and downstrea...
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PetroRisk version 8.01 – User Manual
Report no. 14/22: This report provides a detailed description of version 8.01 of Concawe’s PetroRisk model: (1) conceptual design, (2) main improvements compared to previous versions, (3) KNIME, the...
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A review of toxicity testing conducted on European refinery effluents in 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019
Report no. 13/22: This report provides an assessment of the extent to which toxicity testing is carried on European refinery effluents, and the types of tests being used. The analysis is based on resp...
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Qualitative and Quantitative comparison of field-based analytical technologies for petroleum hydrocarbons determination in soils
Report no. 12/22: The performance of seven field-based technologies including 3 portable solvent-based technologies and 4 handheld solvent free technologies were evaluated for petroleum hydrocarbons d...
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Effects based methods (EBMs) in combination with passive sampling of refinery streams
Report no. 11/22: This report provides an overview of spot and passive sampling data of three refinery effluents after treatment that were collected for chemical and ecotoxicological effluent assessme...
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Guidance on the compilation of Safety Data Sheets for Petroleum Products
Report no. 9/22: This Guidance addresses the specific Concawe recommendations for authoring of (extended) Safety Data Sheets for Unknown or Variable composition, Complex reaction products or of Biolog...
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Evaluation of plug-in hybrid vehicles in real-world conditions
Report no. 10/22: Assessing the real-world energetic performance and emissions of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHEVs) is complex. First, because of the complexity of the powertrain itself, pairing thermal...
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Biodiversity Impact Assessment of future biomass provision for biofuel production – Phase 1
This study aims to determine environmental impacts on biodiversity due to biomass production for bioenergy use. For this purpose the Biodiversity Impact Assessment (B.I.A.) method presented by Lindner...
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Petroleum refinery effluent contribution to chemical mixture toxic pressure in the environment
Report no. 7/22: Petroleum refinery effluents (PRE) are wastewaters from industries associated with oil refining. Within EU, PREs are regulated through local discharge permits and receive significant...