Organic tracers in aerosols from the residential combustion of pellets and agro-fuels

Alves, Célia; Vicente, Estela D.; Rocha, Sónia; Vicente, Ana

doi:10.1007/s11869-016-0406-3

Cited by 19 publications

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“…L/M ratios of around 14–17 for hardwoods and of 2.5–3.5 for softwood combustion using manually fired appliances were found, whereas during combustion in a biomass boiler, the authors reported L/M ratios of 2.3–2.9 for wood pellets, 1.7 for wood chips made of softwood and higher values for miscanthus and triticale pellets, which behave similarly to hardwoods. Alves et al, 2017 [ 169 ] reported that anhydrosugars represented 2.3–3.5 and 0.73–1.7 wt.% of the OC mass in emissions from the combustion of pellets and agrofuels, respectively, in a pellet stove. The authors came to the conclusion that the anhydrosugar mass fractions were 30 to 70 times lower than the amount reported for manually fired systems.…”

Section: Saccharidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Saccharides as Particulate Matter Tracers of Biomass Burning: A Review

Vincenti

Paris

Carnevale

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The adverse effects of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) on health and ecosystems, as well as on meteorology and climate change, are well known to the scientific community. It is therefore undeniable that a good understanding of the sources of PM is crucial for effective control of emissions and to protect public health. One of the major contributions to atmospheric PM is biomass burning, a practice used both in agriculture and home heating, which can be traced and identified by analyzing sugars emitted from the combustion of cellulose and hemicellulose that make up biomass. In this review comparing almost 200 selected articles, we highlight the most recent studies that broaden such category of tracers, covering research publications on residential wood combustions, open-fire or combustion chamber burnings and ambient PM in different regions of Asia, America and Europe. The purpose of the present work is to collect data in the literature that indicate a direct correspondence between biomass burning and saccharides emitted into the atmosphere with regard to distinguishing common sugars attributed to biomass burning from those that have co-causes of issue. In this paper, we provide a list of 24 compounds, including those most commonly recognized as biomass burning tracers (i.e., levoglucosan, mannosan and galactosan), from which it emerges that monosaccharide anhydrides, sugar alcohols and primary sugars have been widely reported as organic tracers for biomass combustion, although it has also been shown that emissions of these compounds depend not only on combustion characteristics and equipment but also on fuel type, combustion quality and weather conditions. Although it appears that it is currently not possible to define a single compound as a universal indicator of biomass combustion, this review provides a valuable tool for the collection of information in the literature and identifies analytes that can lead to the determination of patterns for the distribution between PM generated by biomass combustion.

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Section: Saccharidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Saccharides as Particulate Matter Tracers of Biomass Burning: A Review

Vincenti

Paris

Carnevale

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…Levoglucosan has been extensively used as a chemical tracer for characterisation and quantification of biomass burning emissions worldwide (Vicente andAlves, 2018). This anhydrosugar has been identified in PM emissions from residential biomass combustion (Alves et al, 2017;Vicente et al, 2015), wildfires (e.g. Alves et al, 2011b;Vicente et al, 2011), prescribed fires (e.g.…”

Section: 24organic Compoundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most of these organics were only detected in samples collected during fireplace operation. In source characterisation studies, Alves et al (2017) observed that many of these organic compounds were negatively correlated with combustion temperature, indicating thermal degradation or preferential formation of other classes of organic compounds.…”

Section: 24organic Compoundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of wood combustion on indoor air quality

Vicente

Evtyugina

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…In fact, these combustion appliances emit low or undetectable amounts of anhydrosugars (Alves et al, 2017;Schmidl et al, 2011;Vicente et al, 2015). In the current study, these compounds were present in samples from the three pellet fuels with levoglucosan encompassing 0.01 to 0.02 %wt.…”

Section: 23organic Speciationmentioning

confidence: 48%