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Aerosol emissions from vegetation fires have a large impact on air quality and climate. In this study, we use published experimental data and different fitting procedures to derive dynamic particle number and mass emission factors (EFPN, EFPM)…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: particle size, vegetation fires, emission factors, aerosol emissions
This paper reports relationships between emission factor (EFp) and fire intensity for burns in the palmetto-gallberry fuel type where fireline intensities ranged up to 1,750 kw m^-1 . A model that is presented has application in determining the…
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: carbon balance, fire intensity, emission factor, fuel type, PM - particulate matter, palmetto-gallberry fuel complex
Particulate-matter emission factors and Byram's fire-intensity values were computed for experimental backfires in pine-litter and palmetto-gallberry fuels in the Southeast. The combined data for both fuel types were in reasonable agreement with…
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire intensity, PM - particulate matter, emission factors, emission factor models, backfire, fuel moisture, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, Serenoa repens, smoke management
Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, North America, smoke measurements, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, biomass burning emissions inventories, airborne measurements
Vegetation commonly managed by prescribed burning was collected from five southeastern and southwestern US military bases and burned under controlled conditions at the US Forest Service Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. The smoke emissions were measured with a large…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: trace gas emissions, biomass burning, laboratory experiments
Gaseous and particulate samples from the smoke from prescribed burnings of a shrub-dominated forest with some pine trees in Lousa Mountain, Portugal, in May 2008, have been collected. From the gas phase Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) measurements, an average modified…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemical elements, combustion, Europe, experimental fires, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, particulates, pine, Portugal, season of fire, shrublands, shrubs, smoke effects, smoke management, trees, tropical forests, wildfires, forest fires, greenhouse gas emissions, particulate emissions, organic and elemental carbon, chemical elements, water-soluble ions
In central Mexico during the spring of 2007 we measured the initial emissions of 12 gases and the aerosol speciation for elemental and organic carbon (EC, OC), anhydrosugars, Cl-;, NO3-;, and 20 metals from 10 cooking fires, four garbage fires, three brick making kilns, three…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Mexico, trace gas emissions, biofuel, garbage burning, particle emissions
This review compiled the data from recent actual and simulation studies on toxic emissions from open burning and categorized into sources, broadly as biomass and anthropogenic fuels. Emission factors, in mass of pollutant per mass of material…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, biomass burning, charcoal, combustion, cropland fires, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel management, human caused fires, hydrocarbons, incendiary fires, Japan, land management, particulates, recreation related fires, smoke effects, toxicity, water, wildfires, open burning, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particulate matter, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, Fs, toxic emissions
To study mechanisms affecting particulate matter production from forest fires, a combustion chamber system was developed. This closed system was used primarily for producing cylindrical laminar diffusion flames by burning alpha-pinene under controlled conditions. The independent…
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: laboratory fires, PM - particulate matter, laminar flame
We quantified loading and consumption losses of 1-hour and 10-hour fuels on the forest floor and understory vegetation during 24 operational prescribed burns conducted in the Pinelands National Reserve of New Jersey. PM 2.5 emissions were calculated using published …
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, PM2.5, available fuel, prescribed fire emissions, New Jersey, Pinelands National Reserve, wildfire emissions
Dimensions, volume, and biomass were measured for 121 hand-constructed piles composed primarily of coniferous (n = 63) and shrub/hardwood (n = 58) material at sites in Washington and California. Equations using pile dimensions, shape, and type allow users to accurately estimate…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: biomass, fuel treatment, hand pile and burn, smoke management
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fuel types, Ilex glabra, north Florida, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, south Georgia