Regular short-term peak exposure to benzene in the supply chain of petroleum products – Review of exposure and existing industry practices for targeted risk management

May 3, 2018

Report no. 9/18: Exposures to benzene and benzene-containing products are generally well controlled within industry. However, given the recent findings of a possible association of myelodysplastic syndrome with exposure levels that approach some Short Term Exposure...

A comparison of real driving emissions from Euro 6 diesel passenger cars with zero emission vehicles and their impact on urban air quality compliance – Urban air quality study: extension I

Apr 24, 2018

Report no. 8/18: This report describes an extension to the Urban Air Quality Study commissioned by Concawe that explored how urban air quality is affected by emissions from road transport and domestic combustion. In the first report a particular focus was placed on...

Transcription of Concawe chemical safety assessments into Chesar: summary of a pilot project & current status

Nov 23, 2017

Report no. 11/17: A pilot study was conducted to assess the suitability of transcribing the Concawe CSAs into Chesar version 2.2. The aim was to identify areas that could affect the effective use of the Chesar tool as a vehicle for developing CSAs for PS with respect...

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...