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May 25, 2016
Assessing the aquatic toxicity of petroleum products: comparison of PETROTOX calculations and SPME-GC screening
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 pre...
May 19, 2016
Assessment of petroleum streams for thyroid toxicity
The thyroid gland, and its associated endocrine hormones, is a growing area of interest in regulatory toxicology due to its important role in metabolism, growth and development. This report presents a...
May 15, 2016
Critical review of the relationship between IP346 and dermal carcinogenic activity
Report no. 6/16: The IP 346 method was adopted as a screening assay to predict the carcinogenicity of specific petroleum streams. Its application is based on a strong correlation with results from ove...
May 9, 2016
Analysis of N-, O-, and S- heterocyclics in petroleum products using GCxGC with specific detection
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 ass...
March 14, 2016
The Natural Attenuation of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters in Soil and Groundwater (report no. 5/16)
Report no. 5/16: With the increasing use of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) in automotive fuels there is growing interest in the fate and effects of biodiesel, and biodiesel/ petroleum distillate blen...
March 9, 2016
Review of recent health effect studies with sulphur dioxide
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 heal...
February 17, 2016
Sulphur dioxide emissions from oil refineries in Europe (2010)
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 recove...
December 18, 2015
Concawe Review 24.2
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;
Natu...
December 17, 2015
Monitoring method for inhalation exposure to gas oil vapour and aerosol
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 particu...
December 17, 2015
Literature review and practical experiences on continous dust monitoring at low concentrations
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 emis...
December 11, 2015
Evaluation of Whole Effluent Bioassays for Assessment of Hydrocarbon Ecotoxicity – Phase III Stream Study
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 efflue...
October 5, 2015
Techniques for detecting and quantifying fugitive emissions – results of comparative field studies
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 A...
September 28, 2015
Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2014
Report no. 5/15: In this twenty-first annual report on European downstream oil industry safety performance, 2014 statistics are presented on work-related personal injuries for the industry’s own emp...
May 8, 2015
Downstream oil industry safety statistics for 2013
Safety management systems are widely recognized by the oil industry as an essential tool for collecting and analysing safety incident data and continuously improving the safety of employees and contra...
May 6, 2015
Performance of European cross-country oil pipelines (1971-1983)
Detailed description of reported spillages 1971-1983. Twenty-one spillages were reported during 1972 and these are itemised in detail in Appendix I, and further tabulated in categories and volumetric...
April 28, 2015
Air pollutant emission estimation methods for E-PRTR reporting by refineries
Report no. 3/15: This report is an update of the Concawe publication “Air Pollutant Emission Estimation Methods for EPER and PRTR Reporting by Refineries”.
It provides algorithms to permit emi...
April 2, 2015
Air emissions from the refining sector. Analysis of E-PRTR data 2007-2011
Report no. 2/15: This report provides a review of the air pollutant emissions data submitted by national authorities for oil refineries in the E-PRTR from 2007 to 2011.
Detailed analyses are given...
March 24, 2015
Oil refinery experience with the assessment of refinery effluents and receiving waters using biologically based methods
The trend in discharges of petroleum‐related substances from refineries in Europe shows a consistent picture of declining emissions, since first measured in 1969. This decline coincides with enhan...
March 19, 2015
Risk assessment for emissions from hot heavy fuel oil during barge loading
Report no. 1/15R: A series of emissions, occupational exposures, and mutagenic hazard studies were conducted to assess the risk associated with the loading of commercial Heavy Fuel Oils onto barges on...
March 14, 2015
Specific Consumer Exposure Determinants (SCEDs) for key uses of fuels and lubricants
Report no. 15/14: Under the REACH regulation, registrants are required to demonstrate the absence of significant risk when consumers are exposed to their registered substances. To do this, the Europea...
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