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June 25, 2021
Regulator-suggested ‘temperature correction’ of biodegradation rates leads to overestimation of persistence for hydrocarbon substances (Concawe Review 30.1)
Since 2017, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has required that all new biodegradation simulation tests be carried out at 12°C, and now also requires that half-life criteria resulting from studies...
June 25, 2021
The optimal vehicle electrification level in a battery-constrained future (Concawe Review 30.1)
In light of the EU’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Europe, there is considerable uncertainty as to whether battery production capacity will be able to meet the growing deman...
June 25, 2021
Concawe’s transport and fuel outlook towards the EU 2030 climate targets (baseline and sensitivity analysis) (Concawe Review 30.1)
A new Concawe report identifies key enablers and potential barriers associated with boosting the penetration of renewable energy and improving GHG intensity in the European transport sector towards 20...
June 25, 2021
How Covid-19 lockdown affected air pollution in Europe — a multi-city analysis (Concawe Review 30.1)
Concawe has undertaken a city-level analysis to quantify the ways in which the Covid-19 lockdown measures have had an impact on air quality in Europe. This article presents the results of the analysis...
June 25, 2021
Understanding the process of setting air quality limit values and the associated compliance challenge—the ozone study (Concawe Review 30.1)
The European Commission is proposing to revise air quality standards to align them more closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
This article focuses on O₃, and assesses how...
June 24, 2021
Concawe Review 30.1
The European Green Deal tackles all aspects of our industry, and it is no surprise that all of the articles in this edition of the Concawe Review are related to it.
In light of the zero pollution act...
June 10, 2021
Performance of water treatment systems for PFAS removal
Report no. 5/21: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of widely used man-made organic chemical substances. They contain alkyl groups on which all or many of the hydrogen atoms have b...
May 28, 2021
Improving our understanding of the environmental persistence of chemicals
Significant progress has been made in the scientific understanding of factors that influence the outcome of biodegradation tests used to assess the persistence (P) of chemicals. This needs to be evalu...
May 25, 2021
Additional worker inhalation exposure measurements of heavy fuel oil emissions during barge/truck loading
Report no. 2/20: The report details the outcome of a follow-up project of a study initiated by Concawe in 2013, investigating the occupational exposure to emissions from hot Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) (inha...
April 29, 2021
ERTRAC Carbon-neutral Road Transport 2050 – a technical study from a well-to-wheels perspective
The ERTRAC Carbon neutrality Study 2050 (WTW) analyses different “extreme” scenarios and compares effects. It does not aim at giving a projection or at describing the way to achieve a carbon neutr...
April 28, 2021
Overview of Field-Based Analytical Techniques, Devices and Kits to Determine Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soil
Report no. 3/21: Determination of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil has long been an area of active investigation and still attracting interest as there are important and complex environmental contaminan...
April 19, 2021
The shape of low-concentration dose–response functions for benzene: implications for human health risk assessment
Are dose–response relationships for benzene and health effects such as myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) supra-linear, with disproportionately high risks at low concent...
April 19, 2021
Concawe’s Transport and Fuel Outlook towards EU 2030 Climate Targets
Report no. 2/21: This Concawe report aims at providing an outlook on the European transport sector by modelling elements such as the evolution of the different powertrains and the availability of diff...
March 27, 2021
Conventional and high resolution chemical characterization to assess refinery effluent treatment performance
Refinery effluents represent an emission source of hydrocarbons (HCs) and other constituents to the environment. Thus, characterisation of effluent quality in terms of concentrations of key paramete...
March 4, 2021
Concawe Review 29.2
The move towards climate neutrality is clearly on its way: last year, the European Commission launched its Green Deal; and Japan, the Republic of Korea and more than 100 other countries worldwide have...
February 23, 2021
A Critical Review and Weight of Evidence Approach for Assessing the Bioaccumulation of Phenanthrene in Aquatic Environments
Bioaccumulation (B) assessment is challenging because there are various B-metrics from laboratory and field studies, various criteria and thresholds for classifying bioaccumulative (“B”) and non-b...
February 17, 2021
Technology scouting—carbon capture: from today’s to novel technologies (Concawe Review 29.2)
Concawe has commissioned a new study to evaluate state-of-the-art carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, with a focus on commercial/near-term opportunities for CCS that are already in the mark...
February 17, 2021
A Clean Planet for all: an impact assessment of the potential implications for the refining system and the link with ‘Refinery 2050’ (Concawe Review 29.2)
Focusing on three of the scenarios defined in the European Commission’s long-term strategy, A Clean Planet for all, Concawe has published a report that assesses the potential reductions in CO2 emiss...
February 17, 2021
JEC Well-to-Wheels study version 5: a look into the carbon intensity of different fuel/powertrain combinations in 2030 (Concawe Review 29.2)
Version 5 of the JEC evaluation of well-to-wheels energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for a range of potential future fuel and powertrain options has now been completed.
Full details are avail...
February 17, 2021
A review of the options for decarbonising maritime transport by 2050 (Concawe Review 29.2)
This article summarises Phase 1 of a new research project being undertaken by Concawe to investigate potential technological, operational and energy pathways to reduce emissions from the maritime tran...
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