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ROANOKE WOODSTOVE EMISSION TESTS
Citation:
Buckland, M. ROANOKE WOODSTOVE EMISSION TESTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-96/146 (NTIS PB97-131387), 1996.
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The report discusses a project, part of the Integrated Air Cancer Project Roanoke study, that characterizes and quantifies emissions generated by burning authentic Roanoke cordwood. The burning occurred in a controlled laboratory setting using two woodstoves, each operated at two different burn rates. The project goal was to collect organic and inorganic emissions produced by burning Roanoke wood in two stoves, a LOPI 380/440 conventional and a LOPI 1988 EPA-certified Answer low-emission model, at high- and low-burn rates simulating burn conditions found in a typical home. Eight sampling runs were conducted consisting of duplicate runs at both burn rates of the two stoves. After sampling, the sampling media, filters, canisters, and raw data were distributed to various analytical groups for analysis. The 380/440 stove generated higher levels of emissions than the Answer stove because the latter incorporated secondary combustion technology. The narrow burn rate range of the Answer stove and the scatter of all the data in general make drawing definitive conclusions on trends difficult. It appears that the conventional stove showed a direct relationship with burn rate for volatile organic emissions and an inverse relationship for extractable organic emissions.