Staff members provide technical information to various Departments (Ministry of Industry, Environment, Health, Finance) and public Institutions on various topics such as combustion of fuel and refuse derived fuels, antiknocking properties of automotive fuels, control of stack emissions, etc.. .
Particular attention is devoted to standardization, mainly focused on the validation of test methods for gaseous and liquid fuels. SSC coordinates various ongoing activities, e.g. the round robin test on petroleum products carried out within the framework of UNICHIM (Standardization association for chemical industry, member of UNI, the Italian standardization body) and the round robin tests on automotive fuels and on vehicle emissions within CUNA (National Unification Commission for the Automobile) activity. Staff members participate in national committees and in CEN TC19 working groups. Standardisation meetings are held regularly at SSC.
Certified Reference Materials (such as coal and coal ash) had been developed within the SM&T programme (former BCR) of the European Community with the participation of SSC