Air pollution implications of increasing residential firewood use

Frederick W. Lipfert and John Lee

Energy, 1985, vol. 10, issue 1, 17-33

Abstract: The authors estimated air quality impacts due to residential firewood use for the year 2000 for 16 U.S. metropolitan areas. The wood usage estimates were based on price elasticities in relation to other space heating fuels, a range of future firewood prices, and an algorithm for the spatial distribution of wood use based on heating degree days and population density. This algorithm had been derived from county level data for New England from 1977 to 1978. The air quality impacts showed substantial increases in benzo(alpha)pyrene, an index of carcinogenic compounds, but did not suggest contravention of ambient air quality standards, in general.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(85)90016-7

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