Reductions in indoor black carbon concentrations from improved biomass stoves in rural India

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4749-4756

  Patange, Omkar S ^a   Ramanathan, Nithya ^b   Rehman, I H ^a   Tripathi, Sachi Nand ^d   Misra, Amit ^d   Kar, Abhishek ^e   Graham, Eric ^b   Singh, Lokendra ^a   Bahadur, Ranjit ^c   Ramanathan, V ^c  

^a THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Nexleaf Analytics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEALTH; RURAL AREAS;

AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS; CONCENTRATION REDUCTION; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; COOKING TECHNOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY STUDIES; MITIGATION MEASURES;

STOVES;

BLACK CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; FUEL; KEROSENE; CARBON; SOOT;

BIOMASS BURNING; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COOKING APPLIANCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; REDOX CONDITIONS; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COOKING; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FRACTIONATION; HOUSEHOLD; INDIA; KITCHEN; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANT RESIDUE; REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RURAL POPULATION; SOOT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

INDIA;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BIOMASS; CARBON; COOKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HUMANS; INDIA; RURAL POPULATION; SOOT;

EID: 84926436129     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es506208x     Document Type: Article

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