Emissions and Chemical Components of PM2.5 from Simulated Cooking Conditions Using Traditional Cookstoves and Fuels under a Dilution Tunnel System by Colleen Marciel F. Rosales, Jinsang Jung, Mylene G. Cayetano

“…Abstract Despite the considerable cost associated with estimating household emissions from solid fuel, which are frequently undetected by air quality monitoring systems, compiling such an inventory is critical to identifying the link between indoor pollution and health effects. …”
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Evaluating Ultrafine Particles and PM2.5 in Microenvironments with Health Perspectives: Variability in Concentrations and Pollutant Interrelationships by Sheng Xiang, Shaojun Zhang, Yu Ting Yu, Hui Wang, Ye Deng, Qinwen Tan, Zihang Zhou, Ye Wu

“…Moreover, the traffic emissions (PNCd,tr) contribute 30% of the PNC throughout the study while solid fuel burning (PNCd,sfb) could be a major contributor only in winter (29%). …”
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Characteristics and combustion kinetics of fuel pellets composed of waste of polyethylene terephthalate and biomass by K. Manatura, U. Samaksaman

“…Wastes of plastic recycling and wood sawing contained a high potential for energy source and suited for pelletizing as a solid fuel.  METHODS: The characteristics and combustion kinetics of fuel pellets made using a mixture of waste of polyethylene terephthalate and biomass (Tectona grandis Linn.f) with a polyethylene terephthalate to biomass ratio of 9:1. …”
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Comprehensive health risk assessment of urban ambient air pollution (PM2.5, NO2 and O3) in Ghana by Boansi Adu Ababio, Gerheart Winfred Ashong, Thomas Peprah Agyekum, Blessed Adjei Yeboah, Marian Asantewah Nkansah, Jonathan Nartey Hogarh, Michael Kweku Commeh, Edward Ebow Kwaansa-Ansah, Kwabena Dabie, Felix Adulley, Eldad Boansi, Lorenda Sarbeng, Birago Adu Ababio, Maame Serwaa Boapea, Nana Kwabena Oduro Darko, Meshach Kojo Appiah

“…Urbanization and industrialization have drastically increased ambient air pollution in urban areas globally from vehicle emissions, solid fuel combustion and industrial activities leading to some of the worst air quality conditions. …”
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The Asymmetric Impact of War: Resilience, Vulnerability and Implications for EU Policy by Giuseppe Celi, Dario Guarascio, Jelena Reljic, Annamaria Simonazzi, Francesco Zezza

“…Abstract In 2019, over 96% of EU27 oil needs, nearly 90% of natural gas and over 43% of solid fuels were met by net imports, with the largest share coming from Russia (35% of oil, 40% of natural gas and 20% of solid fuels consumed in EU27). …”
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Enrichment of Limestone Used in the Desulphurisation of Fluidised-Bed-Boiler Flue Gases by Buryan Petr, Tomas Hlincik

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Air pollution exposure and prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and related cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Xingyi He, Shipeng Zhang, Qinglin Bai, Moshen Pan, Yanjie Jiang, Weiwei Liu, Wei Li, Yuanyuan Gong, Xueping Li

“…The pooled analysis showed that PM2.5, NOx, PM10, PM2.5–10, passive smoking, PM1, and air pollution from solid fuels were positively associated with the incidence and prevalence of NAFLD and its related cirrhosis. …”
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Household air pollution exposure and risk of tuberculosis: a case–control study of women in Lilongwe, Malawi by Kenneth Maleta, Robert Krysiak, Irving Hoffman, Sam Phiri, Pamela Jagger, Ryan McCord, Anna Gallerani, Charles Jumbe, Joseph Pedit

“…Introduction Globally, 3–4 billion people rely on solid fuels for cooking, and 1 billion use kerosene to light their homes. …”
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Modelling the effects of climate policy on firewood collection and women’s welfare in developing countries by Raavi Aggarwal

“…High energy prices could induce substitution towards traditional solid fuels such as fuelwood for cooking. Given fuelwood is primarily collected by women in low- and middle-income countries, climate policies may particularly affect women’s welfare. …”
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Slow pyrolysis of orange peels blended with agro-food wastes: characterization of the biochars for environmental applications by Kordoghli, Sana, Fassatoui, Emna, Largeau, Jean François, Khiari, Besma

“…FTIR and SEM characterizations indicated that recovered solids could represent a viable source of carbon materials, biofertilizers, or solid fuels.…”
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Designing a comprehensive behaviour change intervention to promote and monitor exclusive use of liquefied petroleum gas stoves for the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network... by J Jaime Miranda, William Checkley, Kyle Steenland, Vanessa Burrowes, Kirk R Smith, Aris Papageorghiou, Abigail Jones, Ghislaine Rosa, Anaité Díaz-Artiga, Gurusamy Thangavel, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Joshua P Rosenthal, Thomas F Clasen, Steven A Harvey, Amit Verma, Kendra N. Williams, Lisa M. Thompson, Zoe Sakas, Mayari Hengstermann, Ashlinn Quinn, Elisa Puzzolo, Jennifer Peel, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Dana Boyd Barr, Alejandra Bussalleu, Devan Campbell, Eduardo Canuz, Adly Castañaza, Howard Chang, Yunyun Chen, Marilú Chiang, Maggie L Clark, Rachel Craik, Mary Crocker, Victor Davila-Roman, Lisa de las Fuentes, Oscar De León, Ephrem Dusabimana, Lisa Elon, Juan Gabriel Espinoza, Irma Sayury Pineda Fuentes, Sarada Garg, Dina Goodman, Savannah Gupton, Meghan Hardison, Stella Hartinger, Phabiola M Herrera, Shakir Hossen, Penelope Howards, Lindsay Jaacks, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Michael A Johnson, Katherine Kearns, Miles Kirby, Jacob Kremer, Margaret A Laws, Pattie Lenzen, Jiawen Liao, Amy E Lovvorn, Fiona Majorin, Eric McCollum, John McCracken, Julia N McPeek, Rachel Meyers, Erick Mollinedo, Lawrence Moulton, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Luke Naeher, Abidan Nambajimana, Durairaj Natesan, Florien Ndagijimana, Azhar Nizam, Jean de Dieu Ntivuguruzwa, Ricardo Piedrahita, Ajay Pillarisetti, Naveen Puttaswamy, Sarah Rajkumar, Usha Ramakrishnan, Rengaraj Ramasami, Davis Reardon, Barry Ryan, Sudhakar Saidam, Sankar Sambandam, Jeremy A Sarnat, Suzanne Simkovich, Sheela S Sinharoy, Damien Swearing, Ashley Toenjes, Lindsay Underhill, Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana, Viviane Valdes, Kayla Valentine, Lance Waller, Megan Warnock, Wenlu Ye, Bonnie Young

“…Introduction Increasing use of cleaner fuels, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and abandonment of solid fuels is key to reducing household air pollution and realising potential health improvements in low-income countries. …”
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Numerical Studies of the Gas-Solid Hydrodynamics at High Temperature in the Riser of a Bench-Scale Circulating Fluidized Bed by Maximilian J. Hodapp, Jhon J. Ramirez-Behainne, Milton Mori, Leonardo Goldstein

“…A research of the literature shows that studies for the prediction of key variables in CFB systems operating at high temperature still need to be implemented aiming at applications in energy conversion, such as combustion, gasification, or fast pyrolysis of solid fuels. In this work the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique was used for modeling and simulation of the hydrodynamics of a preheating gas-solid flow in a cylindrical bed section. …”
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Limitations and opportunities of using Hotmaps online heat atlas in heat energy planning by Csaba Csontos, Ádám Harmat, José Campos, Béla Munkácsy

“…The results confirmed that settlements with residential heat demand above 5,000 MWh/a could rely on the Hotmaps, however, mapping the local heating energy mix can only be done by field data collection, especially where the ratio of the solid fuels is over 50%. The heating energy mix can vastly vary even within a small geographical area which underlines the importance of in-situ rural energy mapping and makes clear the need to develop such complex but replicable methodologies as this paper has. …”
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Willingness to pay for cooking with electricity among rural households: The case of Southern Ethiopia by Kassahun Trueha Dumga, Kishor Goswami

“…Most rural households in developing countries, however, lack access to a clean and affordable energy source; thus, a significant part of the population relies on solid fuels. This study investigates the factors influencing households' willingness to pay for electricity services for cooking in rural areas of Southern Ethiopia, where access to clean and affordable energy is limited. …”
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Converting the cigarette butts into valuable products using the pyrolysis process by M. Hazbehiean, N. Mokhtarian, A. Hallajisani

“…Pyrolysis is a comfortable thermochemical technique for turning biomass into biochars, biofuels, briquette solid fuels, and further valuable products such as activated carbons, carbon black, and printing ink. …”
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Energy Efficiency of Polish Farms Following EU Accession (2004–2021) by Adam Wąs, Julia Tsybulska, Piotr Sulewski, Vitaliy Krupin, Grzegorz Rawa, Iryna Skorokhod

“…Additionally, there was a notable decline in the use of solid fuels, offset by increased reliance on diesel fuel and electricity. …”
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Analysis of tracheal, bronchial, and lung cancer attributable to respiratory system-related risk factors in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019 by Shiwen Yu, Liangwei Yang, Weiwen Xu, Tian Zhao, Liyuan Han, Guofang Zhao, Ting Cai

“…Among countries, the most significant increases in those attributable to smoking were observed in São Tomé and Príncipe (EAPC = 1.76) and Bulgaria (EAPC = 1.90), those attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution were observed in Equatorial Guinea, those attributable to secondhand smoke were found in Lesotho (EAPC = 2.01) and Lebanon (EAPC = 2.13), and those attributable to household air pollution from solid fuels were seen in Mozambique. Conclusions The burden attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution is increasing, especially in regions such as Western Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia, and countries such as Equatorial Guinea and Bhutan.…”
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Investigation of Heat and Mass Transfer in the Process of Fuel Preparation from Biomass Particles with High Moisture by A. V. Mitrofanov, O. B. Kolibaba, R. N. Gabitov, D. A. Dolinin, S. V. Vasilevich

“…Currently, in a number of countries an urgent task for development of fuel and energy complexes is to increase the share of generation by involving solid fuels in circulation. Among such projects, those that allow the disposal of waste from various industries are particularly significant. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its attributable risk factors from 1990 to 2021: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Stu... by Zhufeng Wang, Junfeng Lin, Lina Liang, Feifei Huang, Xiaoyin Yao, Kang Peng, Yi Gao, Jinping Zheng

“…At the global level, smoking had the highest influence on COPD DALYs, accounting for 34.8%, followed by ambient particulate matter pollution (22.2%), household air pollution from solid fuels (19.5%), and occupational particulate matter, gases, and fumes (15.8%). …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of young COPD, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study 2021 by Yi Zhu, Tao Shen, Ruixin Guo, Ke Liu, Xiyu Cao, Xiuli Yang, Chuantao Zhang

“…The leading DALYs attributable to risk factors for young COPD are household air pollution from solid fuels (20.4%), ambient particulate matter pollution (17.9%), and smoking (13.5%). …”
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