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Technologies and fuels for decarbonising global aviation—the opportunities and challenges
This article provides a summary of a ‘deep dive’ study into the opportunities and challenges associated with the decarbonisation of the aviation industry. The study is part of Concawe’s Low Carb...
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HDV CO₂ Comparator—a life-cycle assessment tool for heavy-duty vehicles in real-world conditions
This article summarises a study to create a life-cycle assessment tool for heavy-duty vehicles. Users are provided with an easy-to-use interactive tool on the Concawe website to compare the CO₂ in...
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E-fuels: a techno-economic assessment of European domestic production and imports towards 2050
This updated study presents a twofold analysis — techno-environmental and economical — of the different e-fuels production pathways in Europe (northern, central and southern Europe), and the Middl...
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New Concawe linear programming model
The production of liquid fuels in Europe is evolving to embrace the low-carbon economy transition as presented by the European Commission (‘Fit for 55’, ‘EU Green deal’, etc.). Therefore, a fl...
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Concawe Review 33.1
I am pleased to introduce this new edition of the Concawe Review, which focuses mainly on topics related to the potential contribution of the fuel manufacturing industry and the role of liquid fuels t...
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Concawe Review 32.2 – Special Air Quality Edition
This Review is focused on air quality.
The first and third articles in this Review summarise studies conducted in collaboration with TNO, which analyse the influence that some sectors have on the a...
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The impact of aviation emissions on urban air quality in Europe – An airport/city analysis
This article presents results from a modelling study carried out to assess the influence that aviation emissions have on air quality in Europe. Using a 3-D chemical transport model (LOTOS-EUROS) and i...
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Atlas of Ozone chemical regimes in Europe
While concentrations of most air pollutants have been decreasing in Europe over the past 20 years, ozone (O3 ) is showing variable trends, with increasing average concentrations and decreasing peak on...
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The impact of shipping emissions on urban air quality in Europe – A port/city analysis
This article presents results from a modelling study carried out to assess the influence that shipping emissions have on the air quality in European port cities. Using a 3-D chemical transport model (...
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The Concawe LNAPL Toolbox
The Concawe LNAPL Toolbox is a web-based tool that provides essential information to the LNAPL remediation community. LNAPL, or light non-aqueous phase liquids, are typically historic hydrocarbon rele...
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Revising EU ambient air quality standards—the implications for compliance in Europe towards 2050
This article presents the results of a modelling study carried out to examine how concentrations of key air pollutants (i.e. nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM) and ozone (O3)) would vary...
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Evaluation of plug-in hybrid vehicles in real-world conditions by simulation and their contribution to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in a battery-constrained environment
Assessing the real-world energy performance and emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) is complex: it depends on their usage (trip distance, recharging behaviour), which results in diff...
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Biodiversity impact assessment of future biomass provision for biofuel production
Restoring and preserving biodiversity is widely acknowledged as crucial in the mobilisation of biofeedstocks for biofuels. Following Concawe’s joint study with Imperial College Consultants on the po...
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Concawe Review 32.1
As the September 2023 edition of the Concawe Review was being finalised, a number of reports discussed the decrease in the biodiversity of the planet. Because the biodiversity contained in different e...
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Concawe Review Special REACH
Following the REACH registration phase, ECHA began the substances evaluation phase in 2012. The proof of similarity and subsequent justification of read-across between Concawe’s substances, which is...
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PetroRisk version 8.01: Improved model for performing REACH Environmental Risk Assessments on petroleum substances
Concawe has updated the PetroRisk model used to calculate the environmental risk assessments (ERAs) for petroleum substances needed for REACH registration dossiers. The updates result in a model which...
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A novel approach for assessing the biodegradability of constituents in petroleum substances
Petroleum substances contain hundreds to thousands of constituents, making it very difficult to generate biodegradation data on all of those constituents individually.
Concawe is undertaking a nove...
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Generation of biodegradability data on petroleum constituents using enhanced tests (OECD guideline 301 F)
To improve the persistence assessment of petroleum substances, Concawe started a testing programme for several hydrocarbons. Ready biodegradability tests were proposed on six 3-ring polycyclic aromati...
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Hydrocarbon space mapping to support gas oil read-across for human health hazard assessment
As vertebrate animal studies form the basis for assessing certain human health and ecotoxicity hazards under the EU (European Union) REACH regulation, appropriate alternative approaches to fulfil info...
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Concawe Review 31.1
Evaluation of pathways to decarbonise transport, simulations of the impact of our products on air quality, evaluation of the safety of our industrial and supply activities: the articles in this editi...
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Fuel effects on modern diesel passenger car and commercial vehicle emissions (Concawe Review 31.1)
As both vehicle technology and emissions legislation continue to evolve, Concawe has conducted studies to examine the multidimensional effects that fuels can have on greenhouse gases (GHGs) and pollut...
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Fifty years of European oil pipeline safety and environmental performance statistics (Concawe Review 31.1)
At the beginning of the 1970s, Concawe, then a young organisation less than ten years old, launched a new activity aimed at recording loss-of-containment incidents affecting European cross-country oil...
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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...
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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,...