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October 1, 2008
Particle emissions from modern vehicles
Ultra-low sulphur fuels have enabled the introduction of modern engine and after-treatment technologies in order to meet increasingly stringent exhaust emissions limits. Through these improvements,...
October 1, 2008
Advanced combustion engines for low emissions and high efficiency
Air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles have fallen dramatically over the past two decades as a result of continuing improvements in engine and after treatment technologies to meet lower regulated...
August 13, 2008
Optical methods for remote measurement of diffuse VOCs: their role in the quantification of annual refinery emissions
Report no. 6/08: This report provides a review of the techniques which are currently commercially available for remotely monitoring VOCs from both point and area diffuse emission sources. The use of r...
July 13, 2008
Report of a toxicology forum symposium on air quality and cardiovascular health effects: what’s the impact
Report no. 5/08: CONCAWE sponsored a special session at the ToxForum meeting (October 2007) on Air Quality and Cardiovascular health effects.
The session provided an opportunity to bring together l...
May 1, 2008
Cost-benefit analysis and air quality policy
Air quality policy measures implemented in the past decades have successfully reduced national pollutant emissions in all European countries. Not surprisingly, it now becomes more difficult to identif...
May 1, 2008
The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive
In the Autumn of 2005, during the preparatory work by DG Environment to revise the current Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive, CONCAWE published the results of a small but im...
May 1, 2008
Cost-benefit analysis for air quality policies
An article published in CONCAWE Review Vol. 15, No. 2, described the methodology for assigning a monetary value to the effects of air pollution on human health. In the present article we briefly re...
May 1, 2008
CO2 emissions from EU refineries
The current focus on climate issues and, more specifically, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is generating much debate regarding emission sources and reduction options. Oil refineries are amongst the so...
May 1, 2008
Mandatory collaboration of all registrants under REACH
Under the new REACH Regulation1 all chemical substances will have to be registered with the European Chemical Agency (ECHA).
This includes petroleum substances that are manufactured in, or impor...
May 1, 2008
Advanced combustion engines for low emissions and high efficiency
European road traffic has increased dramatically over the past several decades and the same growth is now being seen in many other parts of the world. This increased demand has brought new challeng...
April 23, 2008
CONCAWE Review – Spring 2008
Volume 17 • Number 1: Earlier this year, CONCAWE became aware of a discussion around the status of gasoline under the REACH legislation. This discussion could have led to a momentous change that wou...
April 22, 2008
Advanced combustion for low emissions and high efficiency: a literature review of HCCI combustion concepts
Report no. 4/08: This report reviews an extensive published literature covering a class of advanced combustion concepts for low emissions and high efficiency in internal combustion engines. For diesel...
April 21, 2008
Guidelines for blending and handling motor gasoline containing up to 10% v/v ethanol
Report no. 3/08: This report provides guidance on handling and blending ethanol at up to 10% v/v concentrations in motor gasoline. The major challenges associated with ethanol containing gasolines are...
March 21, 2008
European downstream oil industry safety performanceStatistical summary of reported incidents – 2006
Report no. 2/08: The thirteenth such report by CONCAWE, this issue includes statistics on work-related personal injuries for the European downstream oil industry’s own employees as well as contracto...
February 13, 2008
Impact on the EU of SOx, NOx and primary PM2.5 emissions from shipping in the Mediterranean Sea: Summary of the findings of the Euro Delta Project
Report no. 1/08: This report discusses the outcome of modelling scenarios comparing the impact of emissions from ships in different areas of the Mediterranean with those from land-based emissions. The...
November 1, 2007
The compliance challenge from measuring PM10 concentrations
The First Air Quality Daughter Directive (1999/30/EC) establishes limit values for ambient concentrations of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter (PM10) and lea...
November 1, 2007
The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Regulation (E-PRTR) came into force on 24 February 2006, replacing the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) Decision....
November 1, 2007
The future composition of the EU road fuel pool
The transport sector in general, and particularly road transport, is the focus of much attention at the moment. Demand for mobility keeps increasing, driving up demand for both vehicles and fuels, whi...
October 23, 2007
CONCAWE Review – Autumn 2007
Volume 16 • Number 2: Environmental issues are, in many ways, at the heart of public concerns today. Quite naturally CONCAWE gets involved in these issues and brings its contribution in a variety of...
October 1, 2007
Assessing the environmental sensitivity of petrol filling station locations across Europe
In the context of the Groundwater Directive (2006/118/EC), the CONCAWE Soil & Groundwater Task Force commissioned the consultants, Arcadis Geraghty & Miller (Newmarket, UK) to assist in a stud...
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