Literature review and practical experiences on continous dust monitoring at low concentrations

Dec 17, 2015

This report reviews the techniques available for the measurement of dust from gas-firing combustion in refineries and identifies challenges associated with the continuous monitoring of these dust emissions at low concentrations.

Evaluation of Whole Effluent Bioassays for Assessment of Hydrocarbon Ecotoxicity – Phase III Stream Study

Dec 11, 2015

Report no. 7/15: Toxicity predictions based on laboratory- based Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) tests have been assessed by dosing outdoor stream mesocosms with unmodified and fortified refinery effluents. The tests performed allowed the process effluents to be...

Techniques for detecting and quantifying fugitive emissions – results of comparative field studies

Oct 5, 2015

Report no. 6/15: Sniffing and Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) methods for the detection of refinery fugitive VOC emissions were compared under field conditions. Both of these methods are described as Best Available Techniques (BAT) in the EU BAT Reference (BREF) document...

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

Apr 28, 2015

Report no. 3/15: 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...

Air emissions from the refining sector. Analysis of E-PRTR data 2007-2011

Apr 2, 2015

Report no. 2/15: This report provides a review of the air pollutant emissions data submitted by national authorities for oil refineries in the E-PRTR from 2007 to 2011. Detailed analyses are given for five pollutants (SOx, NOx, NMVOCs, CO2 and benzene).