Particulate, Carbon Monoxide, and Acid Emission Factors for Residential Wood Burning Stoves

Burnet, P.; Edmisten, Norman G.; Tiegs, P.E.; Houck, James E.; Yoder, R.A.

doi:10.1080/00022470.1986.10466139

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“…Different wood combustion appliances, including wood stoves, fireplaces, and any corresponding emissions control equipment, can lead to very different emission characteristics even when the same woods are burned [ McCrillis and Burnet , 1990; McCrillis et al , 1992; McDonald et al , 2000]. Other factors such as fuel moisture content, burn rate, log size, and log configuration also can significantly affect emission rates [ Burnet et al , 1986; McCrillis and Burnet , 1990; McCrillis et al , 1992; Stern et al , 1992]. Currently, the best estimates of the amount of fine‐particulate matter emitted to the atmosphere from residential wood combustion are based on emissions inventory approaches.…”

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Organic compounds in biomass smoke from residential wood combustion: Emissions characterization at a continental scale

2002

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[1] Wood smoke in the atmosphere often accounts for 20-30% of the ambient fineparticle concentrations. In communities where wood is burned for home heating, wood smoke can at times contribute the majority of the atmospheric fine-particle burden. Chemical mass balance receptor models that use organic compounds as tracers can be used to determine the contributions of different emission sources, including wood smoke, to atmospheric fine-particle samples. In order for organic chemical tracer techniques to be applied to communities across the United States, differences in wood smoke composition that arise from differences in the type of wood burned in various regions must be understood. A continental-scale accounting of particulate organic compound emissions from residential wood combustion has been constructed which helps to quantify the regional differences in wood smoke composition that exist between different parts of the United States. Data from a series of source tests conducted on 22 North American wood species have been used to assemble a national inventory of emissions for more than 250 individual organic compounds that are released from wood combustion in fireplaces and wood stoves in the United States. The emission rates of important wood smoke markers, such as levoglucosan, certain substituted syringols and guaiacols, and phytosterols vary greatly with wood type and combustor type. These differences at the level of individual wood type and combustion conditions translate into regional differences in the aggregate composition of ambient wood smoke. By weighting the source test results in proportion to the availability of firewood from specific tree species and the quantities of wood burned in each locale, it is possible to investigate systematic differences that exist between wood smokes from different regions of North America. The relative abundance of 10 major wood smoke components averaged over the emissions inventory in different regions of the United States is computed and then used to illustrate the extent to which wood smoke composition differs from region to region in North America.

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Organic compounds in biomass smoke from residential wood combustion: Emissions characterization at a continental scale

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“…Air pollution from residential wood burning stoves Burnet et al (18) found that particulate emissions from wood stoves included polycyclic organic materials in the submicrometre size fraction. Many of these demonstrate carcinogenic and mutagenic properties.…”

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Comparative evaluation of Indoor and outdoor air quality ‐ chemical considerations

Harrison

Colbeck

Simmons

1988

Environmental Technology Letters

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The sources and major environmental pathways of important primary and secondary air pollutants are reviewed, and typical concentrations in background, polluted outdoor, and indoor air defined.Indoor/outdoor concentration relationships indicate that pollutant levels : indoors are normally lower than those outdoors due to enhanced deposition processes in the indoor environment.The converse is found where a major source of pollutants is present indoors, and in some instances extremely elevated pollutant levels have been observed.

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Indoor Particles, Combustion Products and Fibres

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He²

2014

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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Particulate, Carbon Monoxide, and Acid Emission Factors for Residential Wood Burning Stoves

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Organic compounds in biomass smoke from residential wood combustion: Emissions characterization at a continental scale

Organic compounds in biomass smoke from residential wood combustion: Emissions characterization at a continental scale

Comparative evaluation of Indoor and outdoor air quality ‐ chemical considerations

Indoor Particles, Combustion Products and Fibres

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