Investigating the HCBM – GCxGC relationship: an elution model to interpret GCxGC retention times of petroleum substances

Oct 8, 2019

Report no. 10/19: Risk assessments on petroleum substances (PS) are challenging due to the fact that these complex materials contain thousands of individual chemical components having widely differing physico-chemical characteristics, environmental degradation rates,...

Assessing the aquatic toxicity of petroleum products: comparison of PETROTOX calculations and SPME-GC screening

May 25, 2016

Report No. 3/16: Using detailed two-dimensional chromatography (GCxGC) analysis of a set of petroleum product samples of Gas Oils, Residual Aromatic Extracts (RAE) and Bitumen categories, PETROTOX predictions have provided information to support revised category...

Analysis of N-, O-, and S- heterocyclics in petroleum products using GCxGC with specific detection

May 9, 2016

Report no. 2/16: REACH dossiers on all p etroleum productcategories were compiled and submitted by Concawe in 2010. ECHA subsequently raised co ncerns regarding the tech nical justification of the assumptions and too ls use d to generate the cu rrent PNECs for...

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...

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

Jan 21, 2014

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 perform environmental risk assessment of individual hydrocarbons as...