Quantitative Guidance for Stove Usage and Performance to Achieve Health and Environmental Targets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Displacing the use of polluting and inefficient cookstoves in developing countries is necessary to achieve the potential health and environmental benefits sought through clean cooking solutions. Yet little quantitative context has been provided on how much displacement of traditional technologies is needed to achieve targets for household air pollutant concentrations or fuel savings.

Objectives

This paper provides instructive guidance on the usage of cooking technologies required to achieve health and environmental improvements.

Methods

We evaluated different scenarios of displacement of traditional stoves with use of higher performing technologies. The air quality and fuel consumption impacts were estimated for these scenarios using a single-zone box model

SUBMITTER: Johnson MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4529010 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature