TY - JOUR
T1 - Emission estimation of aromatic and halogenated VOCs from household solid fuel burning practices
AU - Verma, M.
AU - Pervez, S.
AU - Majumdar, D.
AU - Chakrabarty, R.
AU - Pervez, Y. F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Islamic Azad University (IAU).
PY - 2019/6/6
Y1 - 2019/6/6
N2 - This study describes the emission factors (EFs) of 16 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for the combustion of commonly used household solid fuels including coal balls (CB), fuelwood (FW), dung cakes (DC), crop residues (CR), and mixed fuels (MF: DC + FW), collected from ten states of India. Sum of 16 VOCs EF (g kg −1 ) have shown highest level (50.0 ± 22.7 g kg −1 ) for CB, followed by CR (23.71 ± 10.64 g kg −1 ), DC (19.08 ± 3.29 g kg −1 ), MF (15.77 ± 9.49 g kg −1 ), and FW (12.79 ± 5.69 g kg −1 ). These findings are multifold higher than those reported for biomass burning in test chamber studies. Benzene and dichloromethane EFs were found to be dominating among the aromatic and halogenated VOCs, respectively. Annual TVOCs emission estimates were evaluated to be 12.58 ± 5.92 Gg year −1 from household solid fuel burning practices. It was the 1/6th of TVOCs emission estimates (73 Gg year −1 ) from biomass burning in India during 2009.
AB - This study describes the emission factors (EFs) of 16 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for the combustion of commonly used household solid fuels including coal balls (CB), fuelwood (FW), dung cakes (DC), crop residues (CR), and mixed fuels (MF: DC + FW), collected from ten states of India. Sum of 16 VOCs EF (g kg −1 ) have shown highest level (50.0 ± 22.7 g kg −1 ) for CB, followed by CR (23.71 ± 10.64 g kg −1 ), DC (19.08 ± 3.29 g kg −1 ), MF (15.77 ± 9.49 g kg −1 ), and FW (12.79 ± 5.69 g kg −1 ). These findings are multifold higher than those reported for biomass burning in test chamber studies. Benzene and dichloromethane EFs were found to be dominating among the aromatic and halogenated VOCs, respectively. Annual TVOCs emission estimates were evaluated to be 12.58 ± 5.92 Gg year −1 from household solid fuel burning practices. It was the 1/6th of TVOCs emission estimates (73 Gg year −1 ) from biomass burning in India during 2009.
KW - Emission factor
KW - Household solid fuels
KW - Volatile organic compounds
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U2 - 10.1007/s13762-018-1920-7
DO - 10.1007/s13762-018-1920-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051622746
SN - 1735-1472
VL - 16
SP - 2683
EP - 2692
JO - International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
JF - International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
IS - 6
ER -