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Atmosphere Publications

Listed below are publications that relate specifically to the atmosphere activities of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources. Hard copies of some of these publications are available free of charge from the Community Information Unit.

Air quality

Books, reports and series

• Report on Woodheater Operation and Firewood Parameters: Australia - May 2008
• A Status Report to the Community: Living Cities - Air Toxics Program
• Marine outboards and personal watercraft - Comparative assessment of the environmental performance of small engines - February 2007
• Outdoor garden equipment - Comparative assessment of the environmental performance of small engines - February 2007
• Health Impacts of Ultrafine Particles - Desktop Literature Review and Analysis - September 2004
• Management of Petrol Octane Enhancing Additives/Products - Paper 2A: Setting National Fuel Quality Standards - November 2000
• National Standard for Biodiesel - Discussion Paper - March 2003
• National woodheater audit program action plan - 2004
• National woodheater audit program report - 2004
• Nitrogen oxides emissions standards for domestic gas appliances - background study - 2000
• Proposed Standards for Liquefied Petroleum Gas ('Autogas') Paper 5: Setting National Fuel Quality Standards - October 2001
• Review of Fuel Quality Requirements for Australian Transport - March 2000
• Setting the Ethanol Limit in Petrol: An issues paper - 2002
• Setting National Fuel Quality Standards - Discussion Papers, 2000
• State of Knowledge Report: Air Toxics and Indoor Air Quality in Australia - 2001
• State of the Air: National Ambient Air Quality Status and Trends Report 1991-2001 - April 2004
• Technical Report No 1: Toxic Emissions from Diesel Vehicles in Australia: - May 2003
• Technical Report No 2: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Ambient Air in Australia - October 1999
• Technical Report No 3: Review of Data on Heavy Metals in Ambient Air in Australia - May 2001
• Technical Report No 4: Review of Literature on Residential Firewood Use, Wood-Smoke and Air Toxics - June 2002
• Technical Report No 5: Emissions from Domestic Solid Fuel Burning Appliances - March 2002
• Technical Report No 6: BTEX Personal Exposure Monitoring in Four Australian Cities - May 2003
• Technical Report No 7: Air Quality and Child Health - October 2003
• Technical Report No 8: Personal Monitoring of Selected VOCs: The Contribution of Woodsmoke to Exposure - May 2004
• Technical Report No 9: Unflued Gas Appliances and Air Quality in Australian Homes - June 2004
• Use of Particle Counters in Woodsmoke affected areas Study Report - September 2005
• Wood heater Particle Emissions and Operating Efficiency Standards - Cost Benefit Analysis - June 2006
• Woodheaters in Launceston - Impacts on Air Quality Study Report - September 2005
• Wood-Smoke handbook: woodheaters, firewood and operator practice - 2003

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Brochures, fact sheets and case studies

• Air Toxics - Fact sheet - 2005
• Carbon Monoxide (CO) - Fact sheet - 2005
• Ground-Level Ozone (O₃) - Fact sheet - 2005
• Hot tips for cleaner wood heating - A guide to using your woodheater for maximum heat and minimum pollution - July 2007
• Lead - Fact sheet - 2005
• National Standards for Criteria Air Pollutants in Australia - Fact sheet - 2005
• Nitrogen Dioxide (NO₂) - Fact sheet - 2005
• Particles - Fact sheet - 2005
• Setting National Fuel Quality Standards: Liquefied Petroleum Gas ('Autogas') Standards - Fact sheet - October 2001
• Smoke from Biomass Burning - Fact sheet - 2005
• Sulfur Dioxide (SO₂) - Fact sheet - 2005
• Woodheaters and Woodsmoke - Fact sheet - 2005

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Posters, postcards, stickers and fridge magnets

• Check your chimney - five things you can do - fridge magnet
• The Six Step Guide to Painting Your Home - Lead Alert - poster

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Fuel Quality

Books, reports and series

• Cetane discussion paper - National Fuel Quality Standards: Measuring cetane number: options for diesel and alternative diesel fuels - April 2004
• Companies approved to supply leaded fuel in Australia
• Draft standard for fuel parameters (biodiesel) - Commonwealth position - August 2003
• Literature Review Based Assessment on the Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on Non-Automotive Engines - December 2000
• Literature Review Based Assessment on the Impacts of a 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on the Australian Vehicle Fleet - November 2000
• Marine Outboard Driveability Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on a Small Batch of Engines - February 2003
• Regulation Impact Statement for the Fuel Standard (Petrol) Determination 2001 and the Fuel Standard (Automotive Diesel) Determination 2001 - 2001
• Review of fuel quality requirements for Australian transport commences - Background paper
• Review of Fuel Quality Requirements for Australian Transport - March 2000
• Review of fuel quality report stakeholder consultation and scenario development - 2001
• Proposed management of diesel/biodiesel blends - Position Paper - January 2008
• Standardising diesel/biodiesel blends - Discussion paper - November 2006
• Setting national fuel quality standards - discussion papers:
  • Paper 1 - Summary Report of the Review of Fuel Quality Requirements for Australian Transport and Assessment of Benefits and Costs of Adopting New Standards
  • Paper 2 - Proposed Standards for Fuel Parameters (Petrol and Diesel) - May 2000
  • Paper 2A - Proposed Management of Petrol Octane Enhancing Additives/Products
  • Paper 3 - proposed model for standards implementation - May 2000
  • Paper 4 - Discussion Paper on Operability Fuel Parameters (Petrol and Diesel) - August 2001
  • Paper 5 - Proposed standards for liquefied petroleum gas (Autogas) - October 2001
  • Paper 6 - National Standard for Biodiesel - March 2003
  • Discussion paper submissions
  • Paper 7 - Diesohol - May 2004
• Setting national fuel quality standards - proposed standards for fuel parameters (petrol and diesel) - revised commonwealth position - 2000
• Setting the Ethanol Limit in Petrol - Jan 2002
• Technical Assessment of E10 and E20 Petrol Ethanol Blends Applied to Non-Automotive Engines: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis of Engine Function and Component Design for Mercury Marine 15hp Outboard and Stihl FS45 Line-Trimmer Engines - November 2002
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on Non-Automotive Engines - January 2003
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on the Australian Passenger Vehicle Fleet - March 2003
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on Non-automotive Engines - 2000hrs Material Compatibility Testing - May 2003
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on the Australian Passenger Vehicle Fleet - 2000hrs Material Compatibility Testing - May 2003
• Testing Gasoline Containing 20% Ethanol (E20) - Phase 2B Final Report Market Barriers to the Uptake of Biofuels Study - May 2004

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Newsletters, magazines and bulletins

• Clean fuels bulletin

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Brochures, fact sheets and case studies

• Selling ethanol blends? Don't keep it a secret!
• Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 labelling requirements from 1 March 2004
  • Ethanol blend petrol label
• National fuel quality standards: Monitoring compliance enforcement - 2002
• National fuel quality standards: What do they mean for the petroleum industry? - 2002
• National standards for fuel quality

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Guidelines, manuals, standards and labels

• Fuel quality standards (register of prohibited fuel additives) guidelines 2003
• Procedures Manual for Approvals - Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000

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Biodiesel

Books, reports and series

• Paper 6 - National standard for biodiesel - March 2003
  • Discussion paper submissions
• Draft standard for fuel parameters (biodiesel) - Commonwealth position - August 2003

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Cleaner-fuels

Books, reports and series

• Review of fuel quality requirements for Australian transport commences - Background paper
• Review of Fuel Quality Requirements for Australian Transport - March 2000
• Review of fuel quality report stakeholder consultation and scenario development - 2001
• Paper 1: Summary report of the Review of Fuel Quality Requirements for Australian Transport
• Paper 2: Proposed Standards for Fuel Parameters (Petrol and Diesel) - May 2000
• Paper 2A - Proposed Management of Petrol Octane Enhancing Additives/Products
• Paper 3: Proposed Model for Standards Implementation - May 2000
• Setting National Fuel Quality Standards - 2000
• Regulation Impact Statement - 2001
• Paper 4: Operability Standards for Fuel Parameters (Petrol and Diesel) - August 2001
• Paper 5: Proposed standards for Liquified Petroleum Gas (Autogas) - October 2001
• Setting an Ethanol limit in Petrol - An issues paper - Jan 2002
• Paper 6: National Standard for Biodiesel - March 2003
• Proposed standard for fuel parameters (biodiesel) - Commonwealth Position - August 2003
• Paper 7: Diesohol discussion paper - May 2004
• Independent Statutory Review of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 - April 2005

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Newsletters, magazines and bulletins

• Clean fuels bulletin

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Brochures, fact sheets and case studies

• National Fuel Quality Standards: Better Fuel...Cleaner Air

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Guidelines, manuals, standards and labels

• Fuel quality standards (register of prohibited fuel additives) guidelines 2003
• Procedures Manual for Approvals - Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000

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Ethanol

Books, reports and series

• Literature Review on the Impacts of 10 and 20% Ethanol on Non-automotive Engines - December 2000
• Setting the Ethanol Limit in Petrol - 2002
• Literature Review on the Impacts of 20% Ethanol on Vehicles - November 2000
• Results of Testing 10 and 20% Ethanol on Non-automotive Engines - January 2003
• Results of Testing 20% Ethanol on Vehicles - March 2003
• Marine Outboard Driveability Assessment - Impacts of 10 and 20% Ethanol - February 2003
• Materials Compatibility Testing - Non-automotive Engines - May 2003
• Materials Compatibility Testing - Vehicles - May 2003
• Testing Gasoline Containing 20% Ethanol (E20) - Final Report - May 2004
• Setting a Quality Standard for Fuel Ethanol
• Technical paper - December 2004
• Submissions
• Proposed Fuel Quality Standard for Fuel Grade Ethanol - Australian Government position - July 2005

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Brochures, fact sheets and case studies

• Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 labelling requirements from 1 March 2004
  • Ethanol blend petrol label

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Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Books, reports and series

• Paper 5 - Proposed standards for liquefied petroleum gas (Autogas) - 2000

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Ozone Protection

Books,reports and series

• Australia's critical uses of methyl bromide - November 2005
• Australian Chlorofluorocarbon Management Strategy
• Australian Halon Management Strategy
• Ozone Hole Summary Reports
• The Hole Truth: The role of ozone depletion in Australia's changing climate
• The Use of Alternatives to Synthetic Greenhouse Gases in Industries Regulated by the Montreal Protocol

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Brochures, fact sheets and case studies

• Australian Halon Management Strategy Fact Sheet
• The Refrigeration and Air conditioning industry in Australia
• Methyl bromide - legal requirements for buyers, sellers and users
• New Product Stewardship Requirement - Frequently Asked Questions
• Natural Refrigerants Guide

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Guidelines, manuals and forms

• 20th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol
• Essential Uses Licences
  • Annex IV - Categories and Examples of Laboratory Uses
• HCFC Controlled Substances Licences
  • HCFC Reporting Forms
• List of import, export and manufacture licences granted and cancelled under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989
• Section 41 – Register of Montreal Protocol Countries - Imports and Exports of Ozone Depleting Substances
• Methyl Bromide Controlled Substances Licences
• Methyl bromide
  • Feedstock permit application Form
  • Exemption List for Non-QPS Applications of Methyl Bromide
  • Intermediate supplier list for non-QPS applications of Methyl Bromide
  • Record of Sale Form
  • Report of Sales Form
  • Record of All Use Form
  • Summary Record of All Use Form
  • Report of All Use of Methyl Bromide by Critical Use Exemption Holders
• Pre-Charged Equipment Licences
• Section 40 Exemptions
  • Section 40 Exemption Reporting Forms
• Section 46 - Quarterly Reports Export of CFCs and HCFCs for use on board Ships and Aircraft
• Used Substances Licences
  • Used Substances Reporting Forms