Residential biomass burning has been pointed out as one of the largest sources of fine
particles in the global troposphere with serious impacts on air quality, climate and human …

Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of air pollution from local to global scale, having
variable effects on air quality, human health, and climate system. Therefore, the source …

Commitments made to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and the need to develop low
carbon sources of power and heat, are likely to lead to the continued or even increased use …

In an extensive wood combustion source test series 2 automatically and 2 manually fired
appliances, and 8 fuel types were investigated with respect to their particulate (PM10) and …

Vehicular emissions are a key source of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs), including
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their oxygenated (OPAH) and nitrated (NPAH) …

The increasing demand for woody biomass increases the price of this limited resource,
motivating the growing interest in using woody materials of lower quality as well as non …

Nitro-organic compounds were determined in a one-year set of atmospheric PM 10 filter
samples that were collected at a rural background site in Hamme, Belgium. In an earlier …

Levoglucosan was present in all samples and its concentrations showed a pronounced
annual cycle with maximum levels in the cold season. The annual percentage of ratios of …

Airborne concentrations of the wood smoke tracers, levoglucosan and fine potassium have
been measured at urban and rural sites in the United Kingdom alongside measurements …

Biomass burning is one of the most important sources of organic matter in the atmosphere
as it affects the absorption and scattering of solar radiation, creates cloud condensation …