Cooking in India: The impact of improved stoves on indoor air quality

Ramakrishna, Jamuna; Durgaprasad, M.; Smith, Kirk R.

doi:10.1016/0160-4120(89)90047-0

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“…Interestingly, power plant (19 Gg/yr) has shown lower emissions compared to emissions resulting from cultural places. Residential bioand fossil fuel use has shown many folds higher emission estimation of OC compared to the present study due to profuse consumption of conventional household cooking fuels in India (Ramakrishna et al, 1989;Smith, 1996;Taneja et al, 2008;Padhi and Padhy, 2008). In contrast to OC emission estimation, EC has shown significant annual emissions from cultural and ritual activities compared to that from transport sector.…”

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confidence: 64%

Cultural and Ritual Burning Emission Factors and Activity Levels in India

Pervez

Chakrabarty

Dewangan

et al. 2015

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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Real-world particulate matter, organic carbon, and elemental carbon (OC and EC) emission measurements were measured for different cultural and ritual burning practices. These were (g/kg): 11.36 (OC), 0.27 (EC) and 31.04 (RPM) for Marriage Events; 27.04 (OC), 0.18 (EC) and 123.82 (RPM) for Muslim Holy Shrines; 25.99 (OC), 0.85 (EC) and 47.93 (RPM) for Buddhist Temples; and 3.47 (OC), 7.96 (EC) and 20.13 (RPM) for Hindu Temples. When projected to reasonable levels of such activities throughout India, the total annual emissions would be 72.38 Gg/yr, comparable to those from transport (165 Gg/yr), power plants (19 Gg/yr), agricultural waste burning (428 Gg/yr) and forest and savannah burning (176 Gg/yr).

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Cultural and Ritual Burning Emission Factors and Activity Levels in India

Pervez

Chakrabarty

Dewangan

et al. 2015

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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“…Several studies concerning biomass combustion, air pollution, and health have been conducted in rural Indian villages (Awasthi et al 1996, Behera et al 1991, Mishra and Rutherford 1997, Ramakrishna et al 1989). The burden of disease attributable to use of biomass fuels in India is estimated as 5-6% of the national burden of disease (Smith 1996(Smith , 2000Smith and Mehta 2000).…”

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Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India.

Balakrishnan

Sambandam

Parikh

et al. 2002

Environ Health Perspect

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Indoor air pollution resulting from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of developing countries is now recognized as a major contributor to the global burden of disease. Accurate estimation of health risks has been hampered by a paucity of quantitative exposure information. In this study we quantified exposures to respirable particulate matter from biomass-fuel combustion in 436 rural homes selected through stratified random sampling from four districts of Tamil Nadu, India. The study households are a subset of a larger sample of 5,028 households from the same districts in which socioeconomic and health information has been collected. Results of measurements for personal exposures to respirable particulate matter during cooking were reported earlier. This has been extended to calculation of 24-hr exposures with the aid of additional measurements during noncooking times and the collection of time-activity records. Concentrations of respirable particulate matter ranged from 500 to 2,000 micro g/m(3) during cooking in biomass-using households, and average 24-hr exposures ranged from 90 +/- 21 micro g/m(3) for those not involved in cooking to 231 +/- 109 micro g/m(3) for those who cooked. The 24-hr exposures were around 82 +/- 39 micro g/m(3) for those in households using clean fuels (with similar exposures across household subgroups). Fuel type, type and location of the kitchen, and the time spent near the kitchen while cooking were the most important determinants of exposure across these households among other parameters examined, including stove type, cooking duration, and smoke from neighborhood cooking. These estimates could be used to build a regional exposure database and facilitate health risk assessments.

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“…The existing body of published literature for India has mostly focused on IAP due to the burning of biomass fuels in unvented cook stoves in rural, semi urban areas or in urban slums [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and on their socio-economic status [13]. However, a far less attention has been paid to the IAP issues in urban areas which is an equally important problem.…”

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Indoor Air Quality: Current Status, Missing Links and Future Road Map for India

Goyal¹,

Khare²

2012

J Civil Environ Eng

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Study of indoor air quality (IAQ) has received attention of the researchers and policy makers over the last several years due to its affiliation with the adverse health effects and occupants' discomfort. This article focuses on the importance and need of IAQ studies in Indian rural and urban indoor environments. A number of questions in this context are posed and addressed, together with identifying the allied research gaps and missing links in the existing literature. Also discussed are the technical challenges to carry out the IAQ studies in India, and the initiatives and future road map required to overcome them.

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Cooking in India: The impact of improved stoves on indoor air quality

Cited by 39 publications

References 5 publications

Cultural and Ritual Burning Emission Factors and Activity Levels in India

Cultural and Ritual Burning Emission Factors and Activity Levels in India

Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India.

Indoor Air Quality: Current Status, Missing Links and Future Road Map for India

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