TY - JOUR
AU - Smith, Kirk
AB - Exposure to harmful by-products of combustion arising from the use of biomass fuels for cooking and heating in rural areas of developing countries results in poor air quality and is responsible for millions of deaths yearly. Little formal quantification and measurement of carbon monoxide (CO), one of these harmful air pollutants, have been performed in rural areas of North India. In the current study, we measured exposure to CO from cooking and heating in seven households using biomass and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) in open and closed kitchens. Exposures to CO ranged from 4.81 to 7.01, 0.20 to 1.81, and 0.02 to 0.75 mg m−3 for households cooking with biomass, cooking with LPG, and for households in which no cooking occurred, respectively. It was observed that the CO concentration in biomass-only households is much higher (78%) than in LPG-only households (14%). We found exposures in closed kitchens approximately two times higher than in open kitchens. Location of the kitchen (i.e., open vs. closed) was the most important determinant of exposure of primary cooks to CO in this geography.
TI - Daily average exposures to carbon monoxide from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of Haryana, India
JF - "Environment, Development and Sustainability"
DO - 10.1007/s10668-018-0131-1
DA - 2018-03-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/daily-average-exposures-to-carbon-monoxide-from-combustion-of-biomass-5EAenJffAM
SP - 2567
EP - 2575
VL - 21
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -