The project period was from Jan 24, 2014 to Dec 31, 2014. The tasks included
prior auditing the air pollution control fee for mobile pollution sources based on
the “Air Pollution Control Fee Collection Regulations”, inspecting the data and
testing the quality of gasoline and diesel fuels in producers/importers’ refineries,
storages, depots, retails and other distribution places based on the “Selling and
Importing Permit Management of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels” and the
“Standards for the Composition of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels”, and
collecting and analyzing the foreign and domestic regulations of fuels(including
bio-fuel). From January to December, the air pollution control fee of both gasoline
and diesel collected was 2.953 billion NT dollars. It increased about 4.25％
comparing to last year. The monthly average reporting volumes of gasoline and
diesel also increased. About the web reporting system of air pollution control fees,
the scanning result in the second half year showed no vulnerabilities. From
January to December, The average sulfur contents of gasoline and diesel produced
by domestic refineries were between 2.2 ～ 8.5 mg/kg and 3.2 ～ 7.4 mg/kg
respectively. All results complied with the standard. For the field inspection, the
sampling number of gasoline and diesel fuels was 24 for refineries, 116 for depots,
and 270 for gas stations. All the testing results complied with the “Standards for the
Composition of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels”. Besides, the field
inspections of 1 bio-diesel entity had been finished in April. Also the Department
of Energy (DOE) announced that the automobile diesel didn’t have to add
bio-diesel since May 5th. DOE has started to discuss with the experts and
professors together to find a way for consumption of domestic bio-diesel and how
the policy continues. However, domestic bio-diesel will be added to boiler fuel for
industrial use temporary. In the aspect of foreign fuel regulations, the main
purposes of the fuel quality regulations in European Union were unleaded gasoline
and low sulfur content. US Environmental Protection Agency promulgated fuel
regulations based on the various evaluation projects including Reformulated
Gasoline project, Tier 2 project, and Mobile Source Air Toxics project. Asian
countries like Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan are following the fuel
regulation of European Union mostly, and have restricted the standard of sulfur
contents in gasoline and diesel to 10mg/kg. The project concluded the global
tendency for the fuel regulation. 2 fuel inspection tasks and achievements forums
had been held in Taipei on 27th June and 24th November. In addition to sharing the
experiences of fuel inspection and achievements, the preventions of illegal fishing
vessel diesel from using by vehicles and their successes were interpreted during
the forum. Also the domestic gas station management and its fuel quality auditing
had been introduced. The unqualified rate of domestic illegal fuels auditing was
0.04% from January to September. The municipalities provided only 1 illegal fuel
sample for testing from January to December. The sample’s sulfur content
exceeded the standard 10mg/kg but PAH content complied with the standard 11%.
The sample had been analyzed by GC/FID and GC/MS equipment, the result of the
spectrum comparison was normal.
