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Vacuum Gas Oils, Hydrocracked Gas Oils, and Distillate Fuels
Hydrocarbon types: straight and branched alkanes and alkenes, cycloalkanes and
cycloalkenes, aromatics and mixed aromatic cycloalkanes.
Boiling point range: 141- 500 o C
Carbon number range: predominantly C9 to C30
The category is formed on the principle that vacuum gas oil, hydrocracked gas oil and distillate fuel
substances have similar physical-chemical and technical characteristics and present similar health,
safety and environmental hazards.
1.2 Category Members
This category is comprised of seventeen UVCB substances (substances of Unknown or Variable
compositions, Complex reaction products and Biological materials), each with a unique CAS Registry
Number (CAS RN); see Appendix 1. The EINECS definition includes, inter alia, reference to method
of refining (distillation), boiling point and carbon number ranges, and in some cases, final processing
step. Category members are produced in a refinery as petrochemical intermediates, used in the
manufacture of automotive diesel fuels, home heating oils, marine gas oils and gas oils or used as
components of formulated industrial lubricants or additives. In general the individual substances are
all produced in quantities of greater than 1,000t/a.
The members of this category are shown in Appendix 1, some of these members are listed in REACH
Annex XVII, to which Nota N 1 have been applied.
Included in the category are six petroleum substances for which the EINECS number is not
accompanied with a description providing information on the carbon number range and/or the boiling
range. In practice, however, these substances show carbon number ranges and boiling ranges similar
to other members of the category and within the category domain definition.
1.3 Purity / Impurities
From a regulatory perspective, the category members are recognised as UVCB substances derived
from the refining of crude oil (petroleum). Such chemical substances cannot be represented by simple
or unique chemical structures or molecular formulae. As such, they contain constituents but do not
contain impurities.
1.4 Category Order
The category described consists of UVCB substances and a category order is therefore not relevant
2. Category justification
The Vacuum Gas Oils, Hydrocracked Gas Oils & Distillate Fuels substances in this category are all
produced by distillation and processing of crude petroleum. They are all liquids of varying viscosity,
and have low volatility. They are complex combinations of straight and branched alkanes and
alkenes, cycloalkanes and cycloalkenes, aromatics and mixed aromatic cycloalkanes with carbon
numbers ranging from C9 - C30, and boiling range of 141 - 500 o C.
The complex and variable composition of UVCB substances means that it is not possible to define
precisely their physical-chemical, toxicological and environmental properties, but they will fall into a
range, defined by the properties, and amounts present, of the individual hydrocarbon constituents. To
take account of the variable composition, hazard properties are determined using a ‘worst case’
approach, except where specified. Where data do not exist for vacuum gas oils, hydrocracked gas
1 i.e. The classification as a carcinogen need not apply if the full refining history is known and it can be
shown that the substance from which it was produced is not a carcinogen. This Nota applies only to
certain complex oil-derived substances in Annex 1.
2010-07-30 CSR Appendix 1