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February 12, 2021
Literature review on emissions of semi- and intermediate volatile organic compounds and formation of organic aerosols with focus on the refinery sector
Report no. 1/21: Organic aerosols (OA) are an important component of ambient particulate matter (PM) but their origin and formation is not well understood. Traditionally, OA have been described by two...
January 7, 2021
Assessing the Efficiency of a New Gasoline Compression Ignition (GCI) Concept
A practical Gasoline Compression Ignition (GCI) concept is presented that works on standard European 95 RON E10 gasoline over the whole speed/load range. A spark is employed to assist the gasoline aut...
December 17, 2020
Fuel Effects on Regulated and Unregulated Emissions from Three Light-Duty Euro 5 and Euro 6 Diesel Passenger Cars
Substantial advances in European road vehicle emissions have been achieved over the past 3 decades driven by strengthening revisions in emissions legislation and enabled by advances in fuel, vehicle e...
December 17, 2020
Explicit Equations to Estimate the Flammability of Blends of Diesel Fuel, Gasoline and Ethanol
Blends of gasoline, diesel fuel and ethanol (“dieseline”) have shown promise in engine studies examining low temperature combustion using compression ignition. They offer the possibility of high e...
December 17, 2020
Determination of low environmental free cyanide concentrations in freshwaters
Cyanide compounds are naturally emitted into the environment in low levels by degradation processes or emitted from anthropogenic sources. In surface water, complex cyanide compounds as well as “fre...
December 3, 2020
Assessing toxicity of hydrophobic aliphatic and monoaromatic hydrocarbons at the solubility limit using novel dosing methods
Reliable delineation of aquatic toxicity cut-offs for poorly soluble hydrocarbons is lacking. In this study, vapor and passive dosing methods were applied in limit tests with algae and daphnids to eva...
November 25, 2020
Can a chemical be both readily biodegradable AND very persistent (vP)? Weight‑of‑evidence determination demonstrates that phenanthrene is not persistent in the environment
Under the European REACH regulation, chemicals are assessed for persistence as part of weight-of-evidence determinations of persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity (PBT), as required under Annex XII...
October 28, 2020
Results of a comparative pilot field test study of a first generation Quantitative Optical Gas Imaging (QOGI) system
Report no. 23/20: Quantitative optical gas imaging (QOGI) is a new system to detect fugitive emission sources and quantify their mass release rates. This report presents an evaluation of QOGI technolo...
October 20, 2020
Producing low sulphur marine fuels in Europe – 2020-2025 vision
Report no. 21/20: The global Sulphur cap entered into force from the 1st of January 2020, and it is seen by the refinery sector as an unprecedented step evolution for a key specification of one of the...
September 25, 2020
JEC Well-To-Wheels v5 related reports (including JEC WTT, TTW & WTW v5)
JRC (the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission), EUCAR and Concawe have updated their joint evaluation of the Well-to-Wheels energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for a wide range o...
September 22, 2020
A Clean Planet for all. Impact assessment on the potential implications for our refining system and the link with Refinery 2050 (Concawe Report 20/20)
Report no. 20/20: The “A Clean Planet for All” long-term strategy published by the European Commission (DG CLIMA) in 2018 analyses different long-term scenarios that could lead to significant GHG...
September 18, 2020
Effect of environmental conditions and microbial communities on ETBE biodegradation potential in groundwater
Report no. 19/20: This report describes research carried out to determine: a) the environmental conditions which may support Ethyl tert butyl ether (ETBE) biodegradation in groundwater, b) the prevale...
September 15, 2020
Technology Scouting – Carbon Capture: From Today’s to Novel Technologies (Concawe Report 18/20)
Report no. 18/20: The EU Commission has recently published its long-term strategic vision exploring different scenarios leading to an EU low-carbon economy by 2050. In all these scenarios, the Carbon...
September 10, 2020
High Octane Petrol Study
Report no. 17/20: The long-term goal of the EU is the ambition of climate neutrality by 2050 (EU Energy Roadmap 2050). As an introduction to reach this target, vehicle efficiency targets for passenger...
September 1, 2020
Literature Review: Effects-Based Analysis for Soils, Risk Management, and Waste Disposal
Report no. 16/20: Classification of wastes is based on different pieces of legislation including the Waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC) (WFD), as well as EU Member State guidance, that c...
August 27, 2020
Assessment of Photochemical Processes in Environmental Risk Assessment of PAHs
Report no. 15/20: Petroleum substances may contain polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that can interact with sunlight. These interactions can increase hazard, via photo-enhanced toxicity, and reduce exp...
August 27, 2020
Simulating behavior of petroleum compounds during refinery effluent treatment using the SimpleTreat model
Distribution and elimination of petroleum products can be predicted in aerobic wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) using models such as multimedia fate model SimpleTreat. An advantage of the SimpleTre...
August 5, 2020
Review of water treatment systems for PFAS removal
Report no. 14/20: The group of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a large family of anthropogenic substances with a wide range of industrial applications. Due to their specific pr...
July 28, 2020
Detailed Evaluation of Natural Source Zone Depletion at a Paved Former Petrol Station
Report no. 13/20: This report presents the results of an investigation that was carried out to demonstrate Natural Source Zone Depletion (NSZD) occurred under a paved site and compare various monitori...
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