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Solid-fuel cook stoves: Fuel efficiency and emissions testing--Austin
Citation:
JETTER, J. Solid-fuel cook stoves: Fuel efficiency and emissions testing--Austin. In Proceedings, Indoor Air 2011, Austin, TX, June 05 - 10, 2011. International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), Santa Cruz, CA, xxx, (2011).
Impact/Purpose:
symposium paper
Description:
The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 1.6 million people prematurely die each year due to exposure to air pollutants from burning solid fuels for residential cooking and heating (WHO, 2010). Residential solid-fuel use accounts for approximately 25 percent of global black carbon emissions (Bond et al., 2004). The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air was formed in 2002 mainly to address important health problems associated with residential energy use in developing countries (PCIA, 2010). In 2010, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves was launched " ... to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions." (GACC, 2010) U.S. EPA, in support of PCIA, published results of cook stove testing (Jetter and Kariher, 2009). More recently, EPA completed a second round of cook stove testing reported here.
