Practical guidance to determine NMVOC emissions from refinery wastewater collection and treatment facilities

May 20, 2025

Report no. 5/25: Wastewater from refinery operation contains various pollutants that shall be purified prior to wastewater emitted to sea. A major pollutant is hydrocarbon remains. Wastewater collection and treatment facilities in European refineries are generally not...

A Review of Particulate Matter Emission Factors for Gas Firing in Combustion Units at Refineries

Jan 29, 2025

Report no. 2/25: Particulate matter is defined as either filterable (FPM) or condensable (CPM) and by size: FPM2.5 refers to filterable particles with aerodynamic diameters ≤2.5 μm and FPM10 those ≤10 μm. Total filterable PM is referred to as total suspended...

Measurements of emissions of Particulate Matter (PM) and Semi-Volatile and Intermediate-Volatility Organic Compounds (S/IVOC) from refinery sources – Phase 1: A refinery fuel gas-fired heater

Jan 22, 2025

Report no. 1/25: This report provides the results from two measurement campaigns carried out on a gas-fired heater at a refinery in north-west Europe. The main purposes of the campaigns were i) to measure the emissions of primary particulate matter (PM) and also the...

Revising EU ambient air quality standards—the implications for compliance in Europe towards 2050

Sep 5, 2023

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 under different emission reduction scenarios, and to assess how...

Guidance for diffuse VOC emission determination following EN 17628:2022

Feb 16, 2023

Report no. 1/23: This document addresses the periodic determination of diffuse emissions of non-methane volatile hydrocarbon compounds from refineries by means of remote sensing. A recent European standard, EN 17628:2022, addresses the proper conduct of such a survey...