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European cross-country oil pipelines
The Concawe Oil Pipelines Management Group (OPMG) has collected data on the safety and environmental performance of oil pipelines in Europe since 1971. Information on annual throughput and traffic, sp...
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Real-world emissions measurements of a GDI passenger car with and without a gasoline particulate filter
A new study aims to evaluate the effects of a gasoline particulate filter on NOx and PN emissions from GDI passenger vehicles under real driving conditions. Emissions have been the focus of worldwide...
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Validation of a simulation model for the assessment of CO2 emissions of passenger cars under real-world conditions
The gap between real-world fuel consumption and manufacturers’ figures has been increasing since 2001. Could the use of generic simulation models making use of on-road test data provide a more accurate approach to measuring fuel consumption and CO2 emissions?
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Using forest carbon credits to offset emissions in the downstream business
Current policy conditions are not generally conducive to the use of voluntary carbon credits in the refining sector. Could the development of ‘carbon neutral’ petrol and/or diesel fuel using forest carbon credits provide a solution?
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Concawe Review 26.1
Find out the articles of this Concawe Review:
Using forest carbon credits to offset emissions in the downstream business. Could forest carbon credits become a viable trading option for the EU ref...
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Concawe Review Special Symposium Edition
The future of the transport system
Drive trains and fuels for road transport, Neville Jackson (Ricardo)
Challenges for hybridisation and electrification of vehicles as a route to decarbonisati...
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Concawe Review 25.2
Contents of this Concawe Review:
A review of REACH registration for petroleum substances in 2016. Addressing the tensions that REACH presents for the regulatory compliance industry
Cat-App: ca...
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A review of REACH registration for petroleum substances in 2016
Ten years on — addressing the tensions that the REACH regulation has created for the regulatory compliance community....
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Downstream oil industry safety statistics for 2015
The 2015 safety statistics report presents data on personal injures and process safety, highlighting trends over the past 22 years of data collection....
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Optical gas imaging: from qualitative to quantitative
New technology capable of quantifying fugitive emissions using infrared imaging may eventually serve as a full replacement for Method 21....
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Concawe Review 25.1
These are the contents on this Concawe Review:
The impact of emission reduction scenarios on air quality limit values. A study of the air quality compliance issues for PM and NO
Effect of fuel...
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Concawe Review 24.2
Find out the contents of this Concawe Review:
Estimating the forward cost of EU legislation for the EU refining industry;
Estimating the marginal CO2 footprints of refinery products;
Natu...
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Downstream oil industry safety statistics for 2013
Safety management systems are widely recognized by the oil industry as an essential tool for collecting and analysing safety incident data and continuously improving the safety of employees and contra...
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Abating fugitive VOC emissions more efficiently
This article summarizes the Concawe study, ‘Techniques for detecting and quantifying fugitive emissions—results of comparative field studies’, that compares the two BAT (best available technique...
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Concawe Review 24.1
The articles in this Concawe Review describes on ongoing work by Concawe to further contribute to the safety of everyone working in our industry, to improve the environmental performance in the manufa...
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Spark versus compression ignition in a new energy environment
Dieselisation of the fuel market is accelerating as commercial transport increases and as the fuel consumption of new passenger cars decreases. At the same time, the recent US revolution in shale gas...
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CONCAWE Review – Year of air 2014 (special issue)
The Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution (2005) has been under review since 2011 with the first of five stakeholder meetings taking place in January 2012. The underpinning work is very complex and rel...
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CONCAWE Review – Spring 2014
As the world’s population moves towards 9 billion, societal expectation is that we find solutions to the fundamental problems of meeting increasing energy requirements whilst reducing the impact on...
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CBA under the microscope
Concawe Comments on the Key Submissions Associated with 5th Stakeholder Expert Group of the Air Quality Policy Review held in Brussels, 3rd April 2013
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Concentration Response Functions for Morbidity Endpoints under the Project HRAPIE
A review of the concentration response functions for morbidity endpoints under the HRAPIE project was conducted.
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CBA under the microscope
CONCAWE’s assessment of latest scientific information on valuation of benefits from aspects influencing mortality and morbidity factors reveals that proposed benefit numbers applied in recent Cost B...
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Ecosystem services under the microscope
Ecosystem approaches can be defined as ’approaches to environmental management and policy making that aim to compare costs and benefits of management and policy options on the basis of an analysis o...
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Science and Policy interface: role of integrated assessment modelling (IAM) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM) has been at the heart of European air quality policy development for more than two decades3. Such tools provide a useful framework for policy makers to connect th...
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Uncertainties under the microscope
This section is a summary of a paper prepared by CONCAWE as a contribution to the 4th meeting of the Stakeholder Expert Group on the EU Air Policy review. The study is based on the results of extensiv...