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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Wood burning"”.
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Methods for particulate matter emissions reduction in wood burning cookstoves
About 3 billion people cook by burning biomass. Most use inefficient cooking technologies that lead to high levels of domestic air pollution. This results in tremendous damages to human and environmental health. For example, in 2012 the World Health Organization estimated that 4.3 million people …
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AI-Based Framework for Identifying Wood Burning Appliances through Chimney Recognition
Estimating the distribution of wood stove appliances is essential for fine-scale air quality management but remains limited by the coarse spatial resolution of survey-based inventories such as the U.S. National Emissions Inventory (NEI). To address this limitation, we proposed a novel computer …
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Monitoring Reduction Efforts for PM2.5 in Ellensburg,WA Using Community-Based Social Marketing to Examine Behavioral Change
… pollutant concentrations during winter months. Wood smoke from household burning has been identified by mobile PM<sub>2.5 </sub>monitoring completed in 2015 as the primary source of PM<sub>2.5</sub>. This research utilizes community-based social marketing techniques to encourage behavioral …
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Parameterizing Climate-Relevant Properties of Biofuel and Biomass Particulate Emissions Based on Combustion Conditions
… conditions (from 20% and 83% RH). Soot from wood combustion did not display any hygroscopic growth directly after generation or when aged for 24 hours with direct co-pollutants. Wood burning soot did display some hygroscopic growth when mixed with a larger mass fraction of hygroscopic …
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Modeling the effect of the energy crisis on air quality in the Po Valley, Italy.
… consumption over the potential changes in wood burn ing consumption. The study employs the WRF-CHIMERE model to simulate the consequences of varying wood burning consumption on air quality. Observational data of benzo[a]pyrene and PM2.5 concentrations in the Po Valley are also analyzed. The …
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"Sequencing infrastructure development in the ""barrios marginales"" of Quito, Ecuador: Policy findings of a hedonic price model"
… of garbage disposal, and pollution caused from wood burning stoves."
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CO₂ and public health impacts of US residential heating electrification
… pumps, with net benefits in every US county. Wood-burning systems alone account for 84% of this benefit, particularly in densely populated areas. However, the reduction in air pollution does not necessarily translate into CO₂ reductions, as the study highlights variations in emissions based on …
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Development of air/fuel ratio control and secondary combustion for a commercial-scale biomass-fueled boiler
… combustor segments commonly used on domestic wood burning equipment. The development and understanding of the combustion system is supported by both experimental measurements and theoretical modeling of the combustion process. Experimentally measured variables include gas temperatures, …
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CHARACTERIZATION OF EMISSIONS AND NON-HOMOGENEOUS FUEL DECOMPOSITION IN A BATCH RUN TWO-STAGE WOOD-FIRED HYDRONIC HEATER
… challenge often encountered in the domestic wood burning community is the inability to accurately determine real-time/instantaneous emissions and performance characteristics on unsteady batch run systems. These limitations are centered on a simplifying assumption; that the atomic ratios of …
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Simulating the sources of organic aerosol in the atmosphere
… region that we study. The source of residential wood burning was the most significant source during winter for all regions of Europe (20-60% of OA depending on the region). During autumn the wildfires was the most significant source especially in Russia (38%) and Balkans (36%), while during …
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Modelling of Air Pollution and Evaluation of the Human Health Implication in Phalaborwa, Mopani District, South Africa
… fuels, vehicles, mining, fugitive, and biomass burning) of criteria pollutants using United State Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) methodology. The emission factors used for each source were adopted from literature. Spatio-temporal distribution as well as the impact of meteorological …
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Ambient air pollution monitoring, modelling and human health risks in Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… sources: vehicular emissions and residential wood combustion (RWC). The results indicated annual emissions of 66.3, 1821.7, 21002.6, 2348.7, and 2649.3 tonnes, for SO₂, NOₓ, CO, PM2.5, and PM₁₀, respectively. RWC contributed over 96% of PM2.5 and PM₁₀ emissions, while NOₓ (84%) and SO₂ (60%) …
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Monitoring of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons through optimization of analytical techniques
… most pronounced variations were observed from wood burning emissions during use of traditional 3-stone stoves in rural households, with total PAH concentrations averaging 46.23 ±3.24 µg m-3 (n=6). In order to evaluate the relative carcinogenic contribution of each individual PAH based on …