Determination of Emission Factors of Pollutants from Biomass Burning of African fuels in Laboratory Measurements

Abstract

Biomass burning (BB), which includes burning in open fires as well as in cookstoves (Akagi et al., 2011), emits gaseous and particulate pollutants that impact human health, including premature deaths and low birth weight. Emissions from BB are associated with a variety of acute respiratory illnesses such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonia, and lung cancer (Delfino