Concawe Reports

Assessment of Recent Health Studies of Long-Term Exposure to Ozone

Report no. 3/14: This report summarises the assessment of the policy relevant long-term health studies published since the last update of the ozone Air Quality Limit Value (AQLV). This project was und...

Proceedings of the Mineral Oil CRoss Industry IssueS (MOCRINIS) Workshop September 2013

Report no. 2/14: CONCAWE organised a 2-day Mineral Oil Cross Industry Issues (MOCRINIS)Workshop in Bologna, Italy in September 2013. The objective of the Workshop was to address topics that have arise...

Application of the target lipid and equilibrium partitioning models to non-polar organic chemicals in soils and sediments

The Target Lipid Model (TLM) provides a framework for deriving predicted no effect concentrations (PNEC) for non polar organic chemicals to organisms in the environment. This approach has been used to...

Assessment of the impact of ethanol content in gasoline on fuel consumption, including a literature review up to 2006

Report no. 13/13: Ethanol, at low concentrations in motor gasoline, is known to impact both the fuel consumption and emissions from vehicles. Because ethanol has a lower energy content per litre compa...

Supplementary guidance for the investigation and risk-assessment of potentially contaminated sediments: a companion volume to Energy Institute

Report no. 11/13: This report provides guidance on the investigation and assessment of potentially contaminated sediments, focusing on the inland, estuarine and coastal environments. It is designed as...

Laboratory Oxidation Stability Study on B10 Biodiesel Blends

Report no. 10/13: A laboratory oxidation stability study has been completed jointly by CONCAWE and DGMK on three biodiesel blends containing 10% v/v (B10) Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME). The results o...

Challenges in addressing phototoxicity and photodegradation in the environmental risk assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the aquatic compartment

Report no. 9/13: This report summarises how light might interact with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to alter both their environmental fate and their potential to cause adverse effects. The q...

Marine fuels and hydrogen sulphide

Report no. 8/13: The safe handling of petroleum cargoes and refined products that may contain hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is an important issue for the marine and inland fuel industries. Attention has ref...

Acute and chronic aquatic toxicity of aromatic extracts. Summary of relevant test data

Report no. 6/13: This report describes the experimental procedures and the results obtained in acute and chronic ecotoxicity tests on several aromatic extracts samples. The samples were tested for tox...

Aquatic ecotoxicity and biodegradability of cracked gas oils. Summary of relevant test data

Report no. 7/13: This report describes the experimental procedures and the results obtained in acute and chronic ecotoxicity tests as well as a biodegradation study on cracked gas oil samples. In a...

European downstream oil industry safety performance. Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2012

Report no. 5/13: In this nineteenth annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance, 2012 statistics are presented on work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own emplo...

Refinery effluent analysis methodologies for relevant parameters from EU-regulatory regimes

Report no. 4/13: This report provides guidance to CONCAWE members on the analytical methods that might be used to monitor oil refinery effluents for those refinery-specific parameters covered by relev...

Predicting refinery effluent toxicity on the basis of hydrocarbon composition determined by GCxGC analysis

Report no. 2/13: A high resolution analytical method for determining hydrocarbon blocks in petroleum products by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC) was used for the analysis of p...

Oil refining in the EU in 2020, with perspectives to 2030

Report no. 1/13: In the two decades to 2030, the EU refining industry will face significant changes in product demand, both in absolute terms and with regard to the relative demand for gasoline and di...

Use of the modified Ames test as an indicator of the carcinogenicity of residual aromatic extracts

Report no. 12/12: Existing data demonstrate that residual aromatic extracts (RAEs) can be either carcinogenic or non-carcinogenic. CONCAWE had previously concluded that “Although limited data availa...

Developing human health exposure scenarios for petroleum substances under REACH

Report no. 11/12: This report describes the approaches that were adopted by CONCAWE to prepare the human exposure estimates in the chemical safety assessments of the REACH registration dossiers for pe...

Primary biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in seawater

Report no. 10/12: This report describes primary biodegradation experiments performed to determine the persistence of higher molecular weight petroleum hydrocarbons in seawater. Results from the bio...

Developing a methodology for an EU refining industry CO2 emissions benchmark

Report no. 9/12: In the third trading period under the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), refineries and other eligible industrial installations may be granted free CO2 emission allowances according...

REACH – Analytical characterisation of petroleum UVCB substances

Report no. 7/12: The purpose of this report is to summarise the findings of the scientific and technical work undertaken by CONCAWE to assess the feasibility and potential benefit of characterising pe...

Trends in oil discharged with aqueous effluents from oil refineries in Europe – 2010 survey data

Report no. 6/12: This report summarises data gathered by CONCAWE in a 2010 survey of effluent water quantity, oil content and treatment processes for refinery installations situated in the EU-27 count...

European downstream oil industry safety performance – Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2011

Report no. 5/12: In this eighteenth annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance, 2011 statistics are presented on work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own emplo...

Gasoline ether oxygenate occurrence in Europe, and a review of their fate and transport characteristics in the environment

Report no. 4/12: Ether oxygenates are added to certain gasoline (petrol) formulations to improve combustion efficiency and to increase the octane rating. In this report the term gasoline ether oxygena...

A global and historical perspective on traditional and new technology gasoline engines and aftertreatment systems

This report reviews the technologies available to meet the exhaust emissions regulations for gasoline-fuelled passenger cars, light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles, non-road mobile machinery and motorc...

A global and historical perspective on the exposure characteristics of traditional and new technology diesel exhaust

This report reviews the global and historical development of exhaust emissions regulations for diesel-fuelled heavy-duty vehicles, passenger cars, and related vehicles as well as the engine, aftertr...