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heatingsystems, etc ; air quality; biomass; carbon; cooking stoves; India; Show all 6 Subjects
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... We conducted indoor air quality (IAQ) measurements during a multiyear cookstove randomized control trial in two rural areas in northern and southern India. A total of 1205 days of kitchen PM₂.₅ were measured in control and intervention households during six ∼3 month long measurement periods across two study locations. Stoves used included traditional solid fuel (TSF), improved biomass, and liquefi ...
heatingsystems, etc ; carbon monoxide; coal; energy; organic carbon; particulates; sustainable development; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Solid fuel usage for domestic cooking energy needs is an integral activity in several developing countries. Emissions from the daily usage of solid fuel lead to release of various pollutants which have adverse health effects. In the present study, an attempt was made to determine the influence of processing of fuel on emission characteristics from cookstoves. Processed fuel included carbonised and ...
Bahargul Tohniyaz; Nan Zhao; Philbert Mperejekumana; Yuguang Zhou; Deying Chen; Gang Li; Gomotsegang Fred Molelekwa; Ali Mohammed Ibrahim Zayan; Renjie Dong
heatingsystems, etc ; analytical chemistry; biomass; coal; fuel combustion; heat; molecular weight; Show all 7 Subjects
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... In order to know the influence of combustion conditions on the emission level of PAHs, this paper presents the research conducted by using biomass, Shenmu coal and 1:1 co-fuel (coal and biomass) incombustion during ignition, high-power heating, low-power heating and cooking through direct-fired and cross-draft stoves, respectively. The thermal efficiency of different fuel compositions and the rele ...
heatingsystems, etc ; coal; combustion; human health; hydroxyl radicals; organic carbon; particulates; research; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Particulate matter (PM) has been considered to be closely related to human health, especially fine particulate matter. However, whether PM mass concentration alone is a good indicator for health impact remains a challenging question. In this study, emissions from residential coal combustion (RCC), one of the important PM sources in northern China, were tested to examine the relationship between th ...
heatingsystems, etc ; cross contamination; ergonomics; food sanitation; hygiene; kitchen equipment; observational studies; refrigerators; surveys; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Our paper emphasizes the importance of the kitchen layout in facilitating consumers' food hygiene practices. A significant correlation was found between the sink placement (inside or outside the kitchen) and hygienic practices during food handling based on a survey performed on consumers from ten European countries, indicating that those who had the sink in the kitchen were more likely to perform ...
heatingsystems, etc ; administrative management; algorithms; carbon; energy conservation; energy conversion; equipment; models; system optimization; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The multiobjective optimization of the system usually focuses on the optimization of the objective functions while ignoring the influence of decision variables on the implementation of the solution. This paper proposes a new improved optimization method by embedding the decision variable diversification mechanism in the optimization process, adopting the discretization mechanism in the multisource ...
heatingsystems, etc ; animals; biogas; carbon; cow manure; feedstocks; gas production (biological); nitrogen; pH; urine; Nepal; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Domestic biogas technology is a promising source of renewable energy for cooking in developing countries. It is popular in Nepal's rural and peri-urban areas and can be scaled-up to replace solid fuel cookstoves. This study focused on the technical assessment of installed biogas plants such as structural components, pipelines and valves, stove and burner, biogas production and utilization, and eff ...
heatingsystems, etc ; Russia; environment; health hazards; odds ratio; regression analysis; Ghana; India; Mexico; South Africa; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Little is known about the association between polluting cooking fuel and depression among older adults living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To evaluate the association between polluting cooking fuel and depression in older population of LMICs. We derived data from WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE), which was conducted in six LMICs including China, India, Ghana, Sout ...
heatingsystems, etc ; air pollutants; environment; heat; income; particulates; principal component analysis; surveys; uncertainty; winter; China; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Household heating stoves are commonly used for heating in rural China during winter and are responsible for a large portion of the particulate matter in the atmosphere. Pollutant emissions from household stoves are influenced by user behaviors in actual use, in addition to purely technological reasons (i.e., type and age of appliance) and installation conditions (i.e., the natural draft of chimney ...
... Housing and indoor home environments are associated with the risk of infections and asthma in children. To better understand the determinants and characteristics of these environments, we aimed to describe the associations between parental health and socioeconomic position and housing and indoor home environments of children in Denmark, and the clustering of the factors within these environments. ...
heatingsystems, etc ; biofuels; biomass; carbon; carbon dioxide; combustion efficiency; environment; gas emissions; toxicity; India; Indo-Gangetic Plain; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The current study was designed to capture real-world cooking process-wise emissions generated by the combustion of mixed biomass fuel in traditional mud cookstoves in rural kitchens of the north Indian state of Uttar-Pradesh during regular meal preparations. Combustion characteristics, including modified combustion efficiency, thermal efficiency and burn rate, were examined to understand their rel ...
heatingsystems, etc ; air pollution; biomass; cross-sectional studies; environment; females; land use; lung function; models; tobacco; villages; India; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Although there is evidence for the association between air pollution and decreased lung function in children, evidence for adolescents and young adults is scarce. For a peri-urban area in India, we evaluated the association of ambient PM₂.₅ and household air pollution with lung function for young adults who had recently attained their expected maximum lung function. We measured, using a standardiz ...
heatingsystems, etc ; World Health Organization; calorimetry; carbon monoxide; ceramics; charcoal; combustion; energy; ethanol; particulates; sustainable development; Kenya; Malawi; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Access to clean, affordable and sustainable energy is one of the greatest challenges people in Malawi are facing today. Ethanol briquettes are a viable source of energy for cooking instead of charcoal. In this paper, combustion containers were designed, fabricated and retrofitted with Chitetezo Mbaula and Kenya Ceramic Jiko stoves. Results of ethanol briquettes calorimetry showed 37.4 MJ/kg and 36 ...
heatingsystems, etc ; biochar; carbon; emissions factor; energy; peanuts; proximate composition; pyrolysis; sustainable development; temperature; water content; wheat flour; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Several combustions tests using biochar briquettes of peanut shells and charcoal from Ziguinchor town in a locally named “jambar” stove are reported in this article. The biochar briquettes were produced following a 2³ factorial plan for testing the influence of the rate (R) of binder on a dry basis, the pyrolysis temperature (T), and the volume (V) of ellipsoid shape biochar briquette on emission ...
Jiří Horák; Lenka Kuboňová; František Hopan; Jiří Kremer; Milan Dej; Tomáš Tomšej; Kamil Krpec; Jiří Ryšavý; Oleksandr Molchanov; Martin Garba; Tadeáš Ochodek
heatingsystems, etc ; European Union; carbon monoxide; coal; combustion; furniture; gasification; paper; particulates; pollution; research; toxicity; wastes; Czech Republic; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Waste combustion in residential small-scale combustion units is not legal in the Czech Republic or other European Union countries. The resulting gaseous and particulate pollutants expose inhabitants to smells and toxic compounds and may damage their property and health. This study is designed to define the emissions of gaseous and particulate pollutants and determine the influence of municipal was ...
heatingsystems, etc ; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; absorption; carbon; chemical structure; coal; combustion; emissions factor; mass spectrometry; pollution; China; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Residential coal combustion is a prominent source of brown carbon (BrC) aerosols, but knowledge of their molecular structures and optical absorption were limited, which have notable used in ambient BrC source identification and radiative forcing calculation. In this study, the Fourier transform–ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry combined with partial least squares regression analysis as wel ...
heatingsystems, etc ; cold zones; disaster recovery; energy policy; heat; human behavior; humans; laws and regulations; particulates; people; public health; wood; Sweden; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Wood stoves emit particulate matter when used for domestic heating. Consequently, the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning in Sweden enforced a prohibition of new installations of old wood stoves in 2017 to protect the public health. The prohibition caused a public backlash that organized itself as a “wood stove rising”, eventually leading to a cancellation of the new legislation in 20 ...
heatingsystems, etc ; World Health Organization; acoustics; air quality; air temperature; at-risk population; dry season; health effects assessments; heat; heat exhaustion; heat stroke; pollution; relative humidity; research; risk; summer; Nigeria; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Few studies have documented the air quality, noise, thermal comfort, and health risk assessment of household kitchens related to Sub-Sahara Africa. In this paper, air quality (CO and PM₂.₅), thermal comfort (relative humidity (RH) and temperature), noise, and health risk in urban household kitchens with kerosene-fueled stoves were presented. This study was carried out during the dry season (summer ...
heatingsystems, etc ; Acacia; Ames test; Salmonella Typhimurium; Vibrio fischeri; biochemical pathways; bioluminescence; combustion; cytotoxicity; ecotoxicology; epithelium; human cell lines; humans; lactate dehydrogenase; lungs; mutagens; particulates; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; raw materials; China; Show all 20 Subjects
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... Particulate matter emissions (PM₁₀) from the combustion, in a residential stove, of two commercial brands of certified (ENplus A1) pellets, a non-certified brand and laboratory made pellets of acacia were tested for their ability to induce ecotoxic, cytotoxic, and mutagenic responses in unicellular organisms and a human cell line. Ecotoxicity was evaluated through the Vibrio fischeri bioluminescen ...
heatingsystems, etc ; anthracenes; calibration; case studies; environmental science; regression analysis; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Trace-level environmental data typically include values near or below detection and quantitation thresholds where health effects may result from low-concentration exposures to one chemical over time or to multiple chemicals. In a cook stove case study, bias in dibenzo[a,h]anthracene concentration means and standard deviations (SDs) was assessed following censoring at thresholds for selected analys ...