Emission Characteristics of Air Pollutants and Black Carbon from Wood Stove and Boiler

Abstract

Manually fed firewood burning appliances, i.e., stove and boiler, were tested in order to determine emission factors (EFs) of macro-pollutants, i.e., carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, ammonia, particulate matters (total suspended particulate, PM 10 , PM 2.5 , black carbon) and trace pollutants (i.e., ten different volatile organic compounds). The composite pollutants EFs for the wood stove were: for TSP 15.45 g/kg, for PM 10 6.53 g/kg, PM 2.5 4.16 g/kg, CO 175.49 g/kg, NO 1.58 g/kg, SO2 0.15 g/kg, TVOC 48.02 g/kg, NH₃ 0.02 g/kg and emissions were similar to the wood boiler appliance: for TSP 12.23 g/kg, for PM 10 5.84 g/kg, PM 2.5 3.66 g/kg, CO 146.74 g/kg, NO 1.42 g/kg, SO₂ 0.15 g/kg, TVOC 47.78 g/kg, NH₃ 0.01 g/kg.