Ting, Y, Mitchell, EJS, Allan, JD et al. (7 more authors) (2018) Mixing State of Carbonaceous Aerosols of Primary Emissions from “Improved” African Cookstoves. Environmental Science and Technology, 52 (17). pp. 10134-10143. ISSN 0013-936X
Abstract
Designs of “improved” stoves are introduced recently to benefit the solid fuel consumption of cooking activities in developing countries, but the uncertainties concerning the combustion processes and particulate emissions remain poorly characterized. To help understand this, combustion in three examples of “improved” African cookstoves was investigated in the laboratory. A typical European heating stove was included for comparison purpose. Detailed aerosol emissions were studied in real-time with an Aerosol Mass Spectrometer and Single Particle Soot Photometer, to explore interactions between black carbon (BC) and organic carbon aerosols, which were parametrized according to modified combustion efficiency (MCE), a common metric used within the atmospheric emission community. Greater than 50% of the total organic matter (OM) was found in BC-containing particles when MCE was >0.95 for dry oak and coal fuels, whereas at lower MCE, over 80% of the total OM for most of the fuels existed in particles without detectable BC. When the OM mass fraction of total particulate matter (PM1) > 0.9, the mass ratio of OM to refractory BC in BC-containing particles was about 2–3, but only ∼0.8 when OM mass fraction <0.9. These findings are not currently included in models and such information should be considered in the future emission scenarios.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 American Chemical Society. This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst for Climate & Atmos Science (ICAS) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/P51097X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2018 11:04 |
Last Modified: | 01 May 2019 15:10 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ACS |
Identification Number: | 10.1021/acs.est.8b00456 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136869 |