Residential wood combustion and its impact on urban air quality in Europe
| Autor: | Tania Martellini, Roberto Scodellini, Alessandra Cincinelli, Cristiana Guerranti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0208 environmental biotechnology Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Particulates Combustion complex mixtures 01 natural sciences 020801 environmental engineering Aerosol Human health European policy Environmental protection Sustainability Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Biomass burning Air quality index 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. 8:10-14 |
| ISSN: | 2468-5844 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.coesh.2018.12.007 |
| Popis: | The review aimed to evaluate the sustainability of wood biomass burning for energy production and its contribution to the air quality and impact to human health in different European cities and to highlight the most important steps to lower particulate aerosol emissions. The contribution of residential wood combustion resulted to be relevant to the particulate matter (PM) mass, with great discrepancies in biomass burning contribution to PM mass in European cities due to the different investigated seasons and different degree by the use of wood as fuel for residential heating. The importance of source apportionment of atmospheric aerosol for the implementation of effective strategies to control PM emissions and assess health effects due to air quality was also evidenced. Two major issues emerged from the critical literature analysis: the need of high-quality emission inventories and European policy strategies, such as replacement of old burning devices with improved lower emission ones. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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