Improving residential coal stoves: Air quality issues on the Navajo Reservation and the implications for China
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Navajo Community Coll., Shiprock, NM (United States)
This is a report of a one-year, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program development (PD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The objective of this project was to evaluate the environmental impacts of home-scale coal combustion on the Navajo Reservation and develop strategies to reduce adverse health effects associated with home-scale coal combustion. Principal accomplishments of this project were: (1) determination of the metal and gaseous emissions of a representative stove on the Navajo Reservation; (2) recognition of cyclic gaseous emissions in combustion in home-scale combustors; (3) back of the envelope calculation that home-scale coal combustion may impact Navajo health; and (4) identification that improved coal stoves require the ability to burn diverse feedstocks (coal, wood, biomass). Ultimately the results of Navajo home-scale coal combustion studies will be extended to the Developing World, particularly China, where a significant number (> 150 million) of households continue to utilize low-grade coal in their homes.
- OSTI ID:
- 324625
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970931-; TRN: IM9911%%322
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. annual international Pittsburgh coal conference and workshop: clean coal technology and coal utilization, Taiyuan (China), 23-27 Sep 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Fourteenth annual international Pittsburgh coal conference and workshop: Proceedings; PB: [1500] p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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