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RECORD NUMBER: 6 OF 15Main Title | Comparison of Emissions and Organic Fingerprints from Combustion of Oil and Wood. | |||||||||||
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Author | Steiber, R. S. ; McCrillis, R. C. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Air and Energy Engineering Research Lab. | |||||||||||
Publisher | 1991 | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1991 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA/600/D-91/152; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB91-223222 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Air pollution sampling ; Wood burning appliances ; Oil furnaces ; Combustion products ; Identification systems ; Molecular structure ; Stoves ; Chemical properties ; Space heating ; Comparison ; Residential buildings ; Particles ; Concentration(Composition) ; Combustion efficiency ; Soot ; Performance evaluation ; Organic compounds ; Emission inventories ; Integrated Air Cancer Project | |||||||||||
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Collation | 13p | |||||||||||
Abstract | The paper presents data from an Integrated Air Cancer Project (IACP) pilot study on the total carbon, organics, and particulate emissions from oil furnaces with both gun-type and retention head burners. The data are compared to results of a similar IACP study on woodstoves conducted in Boise, Idaho, in the winter of 1986-87. The comparison shows that woodstoves produce a richer stew of organic materials and particulates, but that oil furnaces emit more soot. In addition, the chemical structures of wood and oil are discussed, and GC/MS data are presented showing how these structures result in a characteristic fingerprint when these fuels are burned. |