Rocky Mountain Research Station Publications RMRS Online
Publication - Journal Articles, External Publications, and
Special Reports Trace gas and particle emissions from domestic
and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in central Mexico
Christian, T. J.; Yokelson, R. J.; Cardenas, B.; Molina, L. T.;
Engling, G.; Hsu, S.-C. 2010. Trace gas and particle emissions
from domestic and industrial biofuel use and garbage burning in
central Mexico. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 10: 565-584.
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-, NO-3
, and 20 metals from 10 cooking fires, four garbage fires, three
brick making kilns, three charcoal making kilns, and two crop
residue fires. Global biofuel use has been estimated at over
2600 Tg/y. With several simple case studies we show that cooking
fires can be a major, or the major, source of several gases and
fine particles in devel