Testing and modelling the effect of high octane petrols on an adapted vehicle

May 20, 2020

Report no. 8/20: Gasoline combustion has traditionally been measured using Research Octane Number (RON) and Motor Octane Number (MON) which describe antiknock performance under different conditions. All European gasoline cars must be capable of running on the 95 RON...

PetroTox version 4.0 User Manual

May 17, 2020

Report no. 7/20: PetroTox is a modelling tool implementing the Target Lipid Model (TLM) for the calculation of the aquatic toxicity of complex hydrocarbon mixtures. The model allows for the calculation of acute and chronic toxicity values for several trophic levels,...

Three-way catalyst performance using natural gas with two different sulphur levels

Apr 17, 2020

Report no. 6/20: Stoichiometric engines running on natural gas rely on three-way catalysts to meet limits e.g. Euro 6 regarding emissions of hydrocarbons (including methane), carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen. As is well known from decades of industry experience...

Real Driving Emissions from Four Euro 6 Diesel Passenger Cars

Apr 15, 2020

Report no. 5/20: In Europe, the development and implementation of new regulatory test procedures including the chassis dynamometer (CD) based World Harmonised Light Duty Test Procedure (WLTP) and the road-based Real Driving Emissions (RDE) procedure, has been driven...

Air emissions from the refining sector. Analysis of E-PRTR data 2007-2017

Mar 23, 2020

Report no. 4/20: This report is an updated version of the Concawe Report No 4/18 providing a review of the air pollutant emissions data submitted by national authorities for oil refineries in the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) from 2007 to...