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View article: Impacts of wood species and moisture content on emissions from residential wood heaters
Impacts of wood species and moisture content on emissions from residential wood heaters Open
Homeowners burn wood of a wide range of species and moisture content (MC) in residential cordwood and pellet stoves. An effective emission certification test protocol must account for and accurately measure the impact of those variables in…
View article: Online measurement of PM from residential wood heaters in a dilution tunnel
Online measurement of PM from residential wood heaters in a dilution tunnel Open
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) requires residential wood heaters (RWHs) to meet particulate matter (PM) emission limits in order to lower ambient concentrations and reduce public exposure. The current US EPA dilution tun…
View article: Development of an integrated duty cycle test method to assess cordwood stove performance
Development of an integrated duty cycle test method to assess cordwood stove performance Open
The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Residential Wood Heaters (RWH) require certification emission testing of prototype appliances. In 2015, EPA revised those standards to further red…
View article: Impact of fueling protocols on emission outcomes for residential wood-fired appliances
Impact of fueling protocols on emission outcomes for residential wood-fired appliances Open
Many believe that certification testing of residential wood heat appliances should provide data indicative of installed performance. Operationally, test methods typically only assess steady-state emissions and fail to include other typical…
View article: Residential wood heating: An overview of U.S. impacts and regulations
Residential wood heating: An overview of U.S. impacts and regulations Open
Air pollution from residential wood heating poses a significant public health risk and is a primary cause of PM nonattainment in some areas of the United States. Those emissions also play a role in regional haze and climate change. While r…
View article: Development of an integrated duty cycle test method to assess cordwood stove performance
Development of an integrated duty cycle test method to assess cordwood stove performance Open
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Residential Wood Heaters (RWH) require certification emission testing of prototype appliances. In 2015, EPA revised those standards to further red…
View article: Investigation of real-life operating patterns of wood-burning appliances using stack temperature data
Investigation of real-life operating patterns of wood-burning appliances using stack temperature data Open
A study was undertaken to identify patterns of consumer use of outdoor wood boilers or outdoor wood furnaces (technically referred to as outdoor wood-fired hydronic heaters (OWHHs)) and indoor wood stoves (IWSs) to inform the development o…
View article: Characterization of Residential Woodsmoke PM2.5 in the Adirondacks of New York
Characterization of Residential Woodsmoke PM2.5 in the Adirondacks of New York Open
Although woodsmoke from residential wood heating can be the dominant source of winter PM2.5 in rural areas, routine monitoring is done primarily in urban or suburban areas. To obtain data on elevated woodsmoke concentrations from nearby so…
View article: Comparative emissions characterization of a small-scale wood chip-fired boiler and an oil-fired boiler in a school setting
Comparative emissions characterization of a small-scale wood chip-fired boiler and an oil-fired boiler in a school setting Open
To investigate the differences in emissions performance between wood chip and oil-fired boilers under real-world operating conditions, a series of stack tests were performed to measure air pollutant emissions at a wood chip stoker boiler w…
View article: Evaluation of alternative filter media for particulate matter emission testing of residential wood heating devices
Evaluation of alternative filter media for particulate matter emission testing of residential wood heating devices Open
EPA regulations now allow the use of either glass fiber or Teflon filter media for wood appliance PM emission testing. Teflon filter media minimizes the potential for acid-gas PM artifacts on glass fiber filters; this is important as EPA m…