Establishing a novel combustion generator system to simulate and study emissions from diverse applications.

ABSTRACT: Inhalation of emissions from combustion events such as military burn pits and wildland-urban interface fires result in exposures to complex aerosols that may cause adverse health effects. A surrogate combustion generator was created to study these events. A pellet stove was modified to burn diverse fuels comprised of materials found in burn pits (plastic, rubber, and wood). Jet fuel (JF) was added during combustion. The purpose of this project was to: 1) operate the generator over diverse parameters; and 2) characterize the resultant emissions. Pellet combustion (8 g/minute; range: 1-34) ± JF (0.2 mL/minute; range: 0-1) was conducted at fixed rates. Real-time and off-line aerosol characterizations (size distributions, concentrations, morphology) and chemical measures (total and speciation

SUBMITTER: Ranpara A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12423657 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May-Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature