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The Concawe LNAPL Toolbox
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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...
Revising EU ambient air quality standards—the implications for compliance in Europe towards 2050
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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...
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
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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...
Biodiversity impact assessment of future biomass provision for biofuel production
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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...
Concawe Review 32.1
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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...
Concawe Review Special REACH
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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...
PetroRisk version 8.01: Improved model for performing REACH Environmental Risk Assessments on petroleum substances
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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...
A novel approach for assessing the biodegradability of constituents in petroleum substances
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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...
Generation of biodegradability data on petroleum constituents using enhanced tests (OECD guideline 301 F)
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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...
Hydrocarbon space mapping to support gas oil read-across for human health hazard assessment
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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...
Concawe Review 31.1
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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...
Fuel effects on modern diesel passenger car and commercial vehicle emissions (Concawe Review 31.1)
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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...
Fifty years of European oil pipeline safety and environmental performance statistics (Concawe Review 31.1)
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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...
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)
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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...
Technological, operational and energy pathways for maritime transport to reduce emissions towards 2050 (Concawe Review 31.1)
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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,...
Predicting vapour composition and flammability in a fuel tank (Concawe Report 30.2)
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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...
Hydrogen for Europe (Concawe Review 30.2)
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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...
Low-carbon liquid fuels: exploring potential ways to contribute to the 2050 EU climate ambition goals (Concawe Review 30.2)
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Low-carbon liquid fuels: exploring potential ways to contribute to the 2050 EU climate ambition goals (Concawe Review 30.2)

With the publication of the European Green Deal and the recent legislative proposal from the European Commission to strengthen the 2030 climate-related targets, Europe has made clear its ambition to l...
Sustainable biomass availability in the EU towards 2050 (RED II Annex IX, Parts A and B) (Concawe Review 30.2)
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Sustainable biomass availability in the EU towards 2050 (RED II Annex IX, Parts A and B) (Concawe Review 30.2)

Within the framework of the European Commission’s long-term strategy, Concawe’s cross-sectoral Low Carbon Pathways project identifies opportunities and challenges for different low-carbon technolo...
Concawe Review 30.2
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Concawe Review 30.2

This Review adds some important articles to Concawe’s Low Carbon Pathways project, a programme started several years ago to develop a holistic view of how the refining industry could contribute to...
Concawe’s response to the publication and presentation of T&E’s report “Magic green fuels: Why synthetic fuels in cars will not solve Europe’s pollution problems?”
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Concawe’s response to the publication and presentation of T&E’s report “Magic green fuels: Why synthetic fuels in cars will not solve Europe’s pollution problems?”

T&E published a report on Monday 6 December, presenting their interpretation of the results of the lab tests they commissioned to IFPEN to measure air pollutant emissions of e-petrol in cars. Conc...
Regulator-suggested ‘temperature correction’ of biodegradation rates leads to overestimation of persistence for hydrocarbon substances (Concawe Review 30.1)
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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...
The optimal vehicle electrification level in a battery-constrained future (Concawe Review 30.1)
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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...
Concawe’s transport and fuel outlook towards the EU 2030 climate targets (baseline and sensitivity analysis) (Concawe Review 30.1)
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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...
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