Emission factors of health- and climate-relevant pollutants measured in home during a carbon-finance-approved cookstove intervention in rural India.

ABSTRACT: We present results of an emission characterization effort, completed as part of a larger intervention trial, of a carbon-finance-approved program replacing traditional cookstoves with "rocket"-style natural draft stoves. The 100 emission tests were conducted across 31 households in control and intervention groups, with repeated tests in most households during preintervention and postintervention periods. While mean fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emission factor for intervention stoves was significantly lower than for traditional stoves in baseline measurements, they were only marginally lower than traditional stoves during follow-up. Intervention stove PM2.5 emissions had a larger contribution from light-absorbing (elemental) carbon than traditional stoves. Repeated measurements in contro

SUBMITTER: Grieshop AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007132 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature