Can Currently Available Advanced Combustion Biomass Cook-Stoves Provide Health Relevant Exposure Reductions? Results from Initial Assessment of Select Commercial Models in India

EcoHealth

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 25-41

  Sambandam, Sankar ^a   Balakrishnan, Kalpana ^a   Ghosh, Santu ^a   Sadasivam, Arulselvan ^a   Madhav, Satish ^a   Ramasamy, Rengaraj ^a   Samanta, Maitreya ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Krishnendu ^a   Rehman, Hafeez ^b   Ramanathan, Veerabhadran ^c  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Energy Resources Institute   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced combustion biomass cookstoves; CO concentrations; exposure monitoring; household air pollution; India; PM2.5 concentrations

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ANALYSIS; BIOMASS; COOKING; DEVICES; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDIA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; KITCHEN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BIOMASS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COOKING; COOKING AND EATING UTENSILS; HUMANS; INDIA; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84939894927     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-014-0976-1     Document Type: Article

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