User Manual for Concawe LNAPL Toolbox

Apr 21, 2022

Report no. 5/22: LNAPL stands for “Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids” or hydrocarbons that exist as a separate undissolved phase in the subsurface at some sites with legacy releases of fuels. They are referred to as “Light” because most petroleum hydrocarbons are less...

Performance of European cross-country oil pipelines – Statistical summary of reported spillages in 2020 and since 1971

Apr 19, 2022

Report no. 6/22: Concawe has collected 50 years of spillage data on European cross-country oil pipelines. At nearly 36,000 km the current inventory includes the majority of such pipelines in Europe, transporting some 615 million m3 per year of crude oil and oil...

Definition Guidelines of Water Reuse, Recycling and Reclamation for European Refinery Sector

Mar 11, 2022

Report no. 4/22: The current Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference document (BREF) for the mineral oil refining sector (REF BREF) contains requirements such as reducing water consumption by water recycling and internal water reuse. However, the terms water reuse,...

Impacts of low carbon technologies on environmental parameters: air/water/waste

Mar 3, 2022

Report no. 3/22: Concawe’s Low Carbon Pathways (LCP) programme aims to identify opportunities and challenges for different low-carbon technologies and feedstocks to achieve a significant reduction of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with both the...

Literature review of Particulate Matter (PM) from transport with a special focus on organic aerosols

Feb 23, 2022

Report no. 2/22: Several recent scientific studies on urban air quality have suggested that air quality modelling based on current emission inventories for mobile sources systematically underestimates the contribution of these sources to ambient particulate matter...