In order to fulfill the European Union's climate and energy goals, the heating and cooling
sector must cut its use of fossil fuels. Solid biomass can constitute an alternative to fossil …

Residential biomass burning has been pointed out as one of the largest sources of fine
particles in the global troposphere with serious impacts on air quality, climate and human …

This paper presents a comprehensive assessment of historical (1990–2010) global
anthropogenic particulate matter (PM) emissions including the consistent and harmonized …

The inefficient and incomplete combustion of solid fuel (SF) is associated with high levels of
indoor air pollutants leading to 3.55 million deaths annually. The risk is higher in women and …

Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of air pollution from local to global scale, having
variable effects on air quality, human health, and climate system. Therefore, the source …

This study presents combustion and emission results obtained using an Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) phase two wood stove for 15 biomass briquettes produced from a …

The increasing demand for woody biomass increases the price of this limited resource,
motivating the growing interest in using woody materials of lower quality as well as non …

Non-woody biomass fuels have a great potential to replace fossil fuels and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, their application in small scale combustion …

In the last decade biomass combustion has become one of the most important elements in
the fight against global warming. For the sake of climate or environment protection people …

Increasing energy demands and waste management concerns have motivated agricultural
producers to consider the decentralized conversion of agricultural by-products for energy …