Odour management guidance for refineries

Jan 21, 2020

Report no. 1/20: This document aims to help refineries, in conjunction with any existing national guidance, to develop methods to prevent odour nuisance and how to manage a complaint should an odour event arise on site. It describes some of the main aspects relating...

A comparison exercise between a wind LIDAR and anemometers mounted on a 30 m mast

Dec 11, 2019

Report no. 13/19: This report describes the results of a side-by-side comparison of a ZephIR wind LIDAR with anemometers mounted on a 30 m meteorological mast at an open-field site. The work was done as part of a refinery wind study and is novel in the use of wind...

A study of wind flow around a refinery

Dec 11, 2019

Report no. 12/19: Assessment of diffuse emissions using remote sensing needs appropriate information on vertical profiles of wind speed and wind direction. This information has then to be combined with concentration, or path-integrated concentration, in order to...

Air pollutant emission estimation methods for E-PRTR reporting by refineries

Jul 31, 2019

Report no. 4/19: This report is an update of the Concawe publication “Air Pollutant Emission Estimation Methods for EPER and PRTR Reporting by Refineries”. It provides algorithms to permit emission estimates to be made by refineries to meet the reporting requirements...

An overview of HCN emissions from FCCU’s and their potential impacts on human health

Jan 23, 2019

Report no. 1/19: This report provides an overview of the monitoring methods and abatement techniques available for hydrogen cyanide (HCN) emissions in fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU’s). Recommendations are made for emission factors (EF’s) that can be used to...