Country-specific emission factors for biomass combustion in residential and agriculture sectors

Abstract

In this research carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO_x), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), ammonia (NH₃) and total suspended particles (TSP) were measured, and national emission factors (EF) were determined. Although biomass is commonly used in the residential sector and releases a large part of pollutants in the atmosphere, due to lack of well-documented investigations on air pollutants EFs of wood burning it is difficult to set up representative country-specific emission factors in Lithuania. This study is focused on biomass combustion in the residential sector in order to provide data for country- and technology-specific national EFs. The study has estimated EFs of CO, NO_x, NMVOC, TSP and NH₃ from biomass burning in the residential and agriculture sectors, respectively, using four-step methodology according to the exhaust gas analysis.