Petroleum products and REACH: looking ahead

May 15, 2014

The petroleum refining industry successfully met the first REACH deadline in December 2010 with the registration of all petroleum substances. This was a commendable achievement in view of the complexity of REACH itself and the additional difficulties of dealing with...

Use of motor fuels and lubricants: habits and practices of consumers in Europe

Feb 17, 2014

Report no. 4/14: A structured survey of European consumers was carried out across 250 participants to better understand their habits and practices concerning their use of vehicle fuels and lubricants. This report contains the findings of the survey. The information...

Proceedings of the Mineral Oil CRoss Industry IssueS (MOCRINIS) Workshop September 2013

Jan 24, 2014

Report no. 2/14: CONCAWE organised a 2-day Mineral Oil Cross Industry Issues (MOCRINIS)Workshop in Bologna, Italy in September 2013. The objective of the Workshop was to address topics that have arisen following the publication of results demonstrating the presence of...

Application of the target lipid and equilibrium partitioning models to non-polar organic chemicals in soils and sediments

Jan 21, 2014

The Target Lipid Model (TLM) provides a framework for deriving predicted no effect concentrations (PNEC) for non polar organic chemicals to organisms in the environment. This approach has been used to perform environmental risk assessment of individual hydrocarbons as...

Challenges in addressing phototoxicity and photodegradation in the environmental risk assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the aquatic compartment

Oct 21, 2013

Report no. 9/13: This report summarises how light might interact with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to alter both their environmental fate and their potential to cause adverse effects. The quantification of these changes is complicated due to the...