In this project, we conduct the review for air pollution fee application of mobile source and accounting certification check according to “Air Pollution Control Fee Collection Regulations”, check relevant data as well as inspect the gasoline and diesel quality upon the plant area, storage tank of finished products, oil terminal, sale location, and other public and private places of manufacturers and importers according to “Sale and Import License and Management Regulations of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels” and “Standards for the Composition of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels”, and conclude the relevant data of control specifications of foreign and domestic fuels (including automobile fuels, vessel fuels, and aviation fuels, etc.) as well as alternative fuels (including renewable diesel, such as HVO, and biodiesel, etc.). According to statistics of this project, the gasoline air pollution fees collected were approximately 2.33 billion NTD, and diesel air pollution fees 1.339 billion NTD from Jan. to Dec. in 2017, approximately 3.67 billion NTD in total. Compared with 2016, the collected fees increased by 18.7%. The annual applied quantities of gasoline and diesel was 150,497 kl in 2017, which was slightly decreased compared to the 154,585 kl in 2016. Such dramatic increase of overall collected fee for air pollution was due to the fact that the price of gasoline and diesel was adjusted from 0.2/l to 0.3/l for gasoline and 0.4/l foe diesel since Sep. 1st, 2017. In terms of the on-line application of air pollution fee, the project has amended and added new functions aiming at relevant systems, and assists the operators in solving the issue of reporting. According to the system weakness scanning of the later-half year, no potential risks may exist. Additionally, the open data of Environmental Protection Administration as well as the information of applied air pollution fee quantities and amount of mobile sources are updated to Jun. 2018. Operators’ fuel quantity and data of air pollution fee application from Mar. 2017 to Jun. 2018 has been reviewed and deemed correct by the accountant. The 200 checking operations had been completely finished in Jun.2018. According to analysis, only 7 filling stations and fuel shops of CPC exceeded the standard of RVP volume. After the second check, 2 filling stations still exceeded the standard, and relevant penalties shall be carried out; others meet the requirement of “Standards for the Composition of Automobile Gasoline and Diesel Fuels”. For oil refinery, storage station, and sale station, tracing and sampling for the same batch were conducted, and the results of composition inspection were all meet the requirements of current regulations. In addition, spectrum of graph of fuel products is drawn out to compare the difference between FPG and CPC by the oil refineries. The analysis of the graph receives the same results as the data analysis in 1997. In terms of the regulations of gasoline and diesel in our country, the priority goal is to make the standard for benzene in gasoline and PAH in diesel. According to the fuel quality specification of other countries, the maximum volume for benzene in gasoline is 1% (v/v) for EU, 0.8% (v/v) for the U.S.A., and 0.7% (v/v) for South Korea; the maximum volume for PAH in diesel is 8% (v/v) for EU and Singapore. In order to improve the regions where fuels fail to meet the requirements of national air quality standard, the Environmental Protection Agency of the U.S.A. stipulates that these regions must use gasoline of new formula or use oxi-fuels in winter. The oxygen concentration in the gasoline shall be 2.0 to 2.7 wt%, the added MTBE concentration shall be 11 to 15 vol%, and the MTBE in gasoline from Japan shall not exceed 7% (v/v); the MTBE from Australia shall not exceed 1% (v/v). For the sulfur in aviation fuels, the checked average sulfur content per year of CPC and FPG is much lower than the current standard for sulfur in aviation fuels of 0.3% (v/v) in our country. Based on this as the reference for the standard for composition of aviation fuels, the maximum volume of sulfur in aviation fuels is additionally stipulated as 0.2% (v/v). The other goal is to aim at the standard for vessel fuels. Therefore, based on MARPOL and the standards for sulfur in vessel fuels of nearby countries, the maximum volume of sulfur in vessel fuels is additionally stipulated as 0.5% (m/m).
