Abstract
Cooking can emit high concentrations of particles and gaseous pollutants. Cooking has contributed to the major source of indoor air pollutants, especially for particle pollutants in residential buildings. Many studies already analyzed the emission characteristics of Chinese cooking-related UFPs and PM2.5, while less for the fine particle size distributions. Currently, the fine particle emission characteristics of Chinese cooking need to be further investigated, since the mass size distribution of Chinese cooking is dominated by fine particles. This study determined the emission characteristics of PM1 and fine particles from three Chinese cooking methods. The capture efficiencies of particles were also measured by a modified indirect approach, including the impact of particle decay. The results showed that stir-fried vegetable and pan-fried meat dishes generated more fine particles at 0.542-1.5 μm. Besides, pan-fried and deep-fried meat dishes produce a higher generation of PM1. The fine particles (0.542-10 μm) number-based and volume-based size distributions of six dishes both presented a monodisperse behavior. The cooking methods are not a sensitive factor to the volume frequency of fine particle ranging from 0.542 to 10 μm. The averaged volume median and mode diameter for six typical Chinese dishes are 2.5 μm and 3.3 μm, respectively. The Sauter and DeBroukere mean diameter is 4.7 μm and 5.6 μm, respectively. The decay of fine particles increases with the particle diameter. The impact of particle decay on capture efficiency for 2-3 μm particles is about 5%. The capture efficiencies of pan-fried and deep-fried meat dishes are lower than that of vegetable dishes. In contrast, the capture efficiency for stir-fried meat dishes is higher than that of vegetable dishes. The capture efficiency for PM1 and 0.542-5 μm particles from six typical Chinese dishes were 60-90% on the IEC recommended exhaust flowrate.
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