Concawe Review 24.2

Dec 18, 2015

Find out the contents of this Concawe Review: Estimating the forward cost of EU legislation for the EU refining industry; Estimating the marginal CO2 footprints of refinery products; Natural capital accounting and the Downstream Business; Ongoing EU regulation of...

Literature review and practical experiences on continous dust monitoring at low concentrations

Dec 17, 2015

This report reviews the techniques available for the measurement of dust from gas-firing combustion in refineries and identifies challenges associated with the continuous monitoring of these dust emissions at low concentrations.

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...