Review of recent health effect studies with sulphur dioxide

Mar 9, 2016

Report no. 4/16: This report focuses on published toxicology and epidemiology studies that have examined the relationship between sulphur dioxide exposures and the occurrence of acute and chronic health effects in laboratory animals and humans. All relevant studies...

Sulphur dioxide emissions from oil refineries in Europe (2010)

Feb 17, 2016

Report no. 1/16: This report describes the results of the 2010 year survey into the sulphur pathways in European refining. This includes the distribution of sulphur in products, the capture and recovery of sulphur in refineries and the emission of sulphur oxides as...

Monitoring method for inhalation exposure to gas oil vapour and aerosol

Dec 17, 2015

Report no. 8/15: A study was conducted to characterize sampling and analysis methods for the measurement of the personal workplace exposure concentration of gas oil vapours and aerosols and in particular, to describe their ability to quantify the aerosol-vapour...

Evaluation of Whole Effluent Bioassays for Assessment of Hydrocarbon Ecotoxicity – Phase III Stream Study

Dec 11, 2015

Report no. 7/15: Toxicity predictions based on laboratory- based Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) tests have been assessed by dosing outdoor stream mesocosms with unmodified and fortified refinery effluents. The tests performed allowed the process effluents to be...

Techniques for detecting and quantifying fugitive emissions – results of comparative field studies

Oct 5, 2015

Report no. 6/15: Sniffing and Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) methods for the detection of refinery fugitive VOC emissions were compared under field conditions. Both of these methods are described as Best Available Techniques (BAT) in the EU BAT Reference (BREF) document...