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July 15, 2022
How additional actions in the road transport sector could improve air quality in Europe — an extension of the Concawe urban air quality studies (Concawe Review 31.1)
This article presents results from a modelling study carried out to examine how concentrations of the major urban pollutants (i.e. nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM) and ozone (O₃)) wou...
July 15, 2022
Technological, operational and energy pathways for maritime transport to reduce emissions towards 2050 (Concawe Review 31.1)
This article provides a summary of a ‘deep dive’ study into the future development of emissions from international maritime transport. The study is part of Concawe’s Low Carbon Pathways project,...
July 15, 2022
A review of toxicity testing conducted on European refinery effluents in 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019
Report no. 13/22: This report provides an assessment of the extent to which toxicity testing is carried on European refinery effluents, and the types of tests being used. The analysis is based on resp...
July 11, 2022
Qualitative and Quantitative comparison of field-based analytical technologies for petroleum hydrocarbons determination in soils
Report no. 12/22: The performance of seven field-based technologies including 3 portable solvent-based technologies and 4 handheld solvent free technologies were evaluated for petroleum hydrocarbons d...
July 8, 2022
Effects based methods (EBMs) in combination with passive sampling of refinery streams
Report no. 11/22: This report provides an overview of spot and passive sampling data of three refinery effluents after treatment that were collected for chemical and ecotoxicological effluent assessme...
June 29, 2022
Guidance on the compilation of Safety Data Sheets for Petroleum Products
Report no. 9/22: This Guidance addresses the specific Concawe recommendations for authoring of (extended) Safety Data Sheets for Unknown or Variable composition, Complex reaction products or of Biolog...
June 20, 2022
Evaluation of plug-in hybrid vehicles in real-world conditions
Report no. 10/22: Assessing the real-world energetic performance and emissions of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (PHEVs) is complex. First, because of the complexity of the powertrain itself, pairing thermal...
June 8, 2022
Comparison of PAC and MOAH for understanding the carcinogenic and developmental toxicity potential of mineral oils
The carcinogenicity and developmental toxicity of unrefined mineral oil is related to its 3–7 ring polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAC) content. Therefore, refining operations focus on the targeted r...
June 2, 2022
Biodiversity Impact Assessment of future biomass provision for biofuel production – Phase 1
This study aims to determine environmental impacts on biodiversity due to biomass production for bioenergy use. For this purpose the Biodiversity Impact Assessment (B.I.A.) method presented by Lindner...
May 16, 2022
Petroleum refinery effluent contribution to chemical mixture toxic pressure in the environment
Report no. 7/22: Petroleum refinery effluents (PRE) are wastewaters from industries associated with oil refining. Within EU, PREs are regulated through local discharge permits and receive significant...
April 21, 2022
User Manual for Concawe LNAPL Toolbox
Report no. 5/22: LNAPL stands for “Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids” or hydrocarbons that exist as a separate undissolved phase in the subsurface at some sites with legacy releases of fuels. They a...
April 19, 2022
Performance of European cross-country oil pipelines – Statistical summary of reported spillages in 2020 and since 1971
Report no. 6/22: Concawe has collected 50 years of spillage data on European cross-country oil pipelines. At nearly 36,000 km the current inventory includes the majority of such pipelines in Europe, t...
March 11, 2022
Definition Guidelines of Water Reuse, Recycling and Reclamation for European Refinery Sector
Report no. 4/22: The current Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference document (BREF) for the mineral oil refining sector (REF BREF) contains requirements such as reducing water consumption by water...
March 3, 2022
Impacts of low carbon technologies on environmental parameters: air/water/waste
Report no. 3/22: Concawe’s Low Carbon Pathways (LCP) programme aims to identify opportunities and challenges for different low-carbon technologies and feedstocks to achieve a significant reduction o...
February 23, 2022
Literature review of Particulate Matter (PM) from transport with a special focus on organic aerosols
Report no. 2/22: Several recent scientific studies on urban air quality have suggested that air quality modelling based on current emission inventories for mobile sources systematically underestimates...
February 4, 2022
Linking biodegradation kinetics, microbial composition and test temperature – Testing 40 petroleum hydrocarbons using inocula collected in winter and summer
Many factors affect the biodegradation kinetics of chemicals in test systems and the environment. Empirical knowledge is needed on how much test temperature, inoculum, test substances and co-substrate...
February 1, 2022
Technological, Operational and Energy Pathways for Maritime Transport to Reduce Emissions Towards 2050
This is the final report from a study for OGCI and Concawe on the “Technological, Operational and Energy Pathways for Maritime Transport to Reduce Emissions Towards 2050”. The context for this stu...
January 18, 2022
Predicting vapour composition and flammability in a fuel tank (Concawe Report 30.2)
Fuel blends consisting of a mixture of gasoline, diesel fuel and ethanol—referred to as dieseline—have shown promise for use in high-compression engines. Such mixtures could be flammable in the he...
January 18, 2022
Hydrogen for Europe (Concawe Review 30.2)
A new report co-financed by Concawe and a number of key stakeholders in the low-carbon and renewable hydrogen value chain details a study to assess the contribution of renewable and low-carbon hydroge...
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