Volatile organic compound emissions in western Europe: control options and their cost-effectiveness for gasoline vehicles, distribution and refining

Sep 13, 1987

Report no. 6/87: This report summarises the conclusions drawn by CONCAWE from its recent work on volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions in Western Europe. The underlying data are published by CONCAWE; VOC emissions inventories are addressed in Reports Nos. 2/F6 and...

Sulphur emissions from small stationary oil combustion plant and the availability of low sulphur fuel oil in the EEC

Sep 13, 1987

Report no. 87/61: This report deals with sulphur emissions from combustion plant of capacities less than 50 MW/h and the possible effect the implementation of the EEC Large Combustion Plant Directive could have on these emissions. The availability of low sulphur fuel...

A survey of exposures to gasoline vapour

Jun 21, 1987

Report no. 4/87: This report presents data on 540 personal gasoline vapour exposure measurements collected in 13 European countries by an industrial hygiene task force during 1984 and 1985 and stored in a Concawe computer database. Gasoline vapour exposures are...

Effects of skin contact with gasoline containing methanol

Feb 21, 1987

Report no. 87/54: The use of methanol as a blending component in gasoline raises two questions concerning potential health hazards from skin contact with liquid fuel: Is gasoline containing methanol more irritant to the skin than conventional gasoline? To what extent...

The health experience of workers in the petroleum manufacturing and distribution industry

Jan 21, 1987

Report no. 2/87: A review over one hundred papers on the health effects of workers engaged in the manufacture and distribution of gasoline revealed inconsistent results. This may, in part, be due to the variable quality of the epidemiological studies. There is,...