Pollutant emissions from portable kerosene-fired space heaters
Indoor use of unvented combustion appliances is known to cause an increase in indoor air pollutants. We conducted laboratory tests on two radiant and two convective portable kerosene-fired space heaters to identify the pollutants they emit and to determine their emission rates. Results show that carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, and formaldehyde were emitted by both types of heaters and that the radiant heaters and one of the convective heaters also emitted trace amounts of fine particles. When such heaters are operated for 1 h in a 27-m/sup 3/ chamber with 0.4 air changes per hour, the resultant CO/sub 2/ concentrations are well above the U.S. occupational standard, and NO/sub 2/ concentrations are well above California's short-term outdoor standard.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, CA
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 5607092
- Journal Information:
- Environ. Sci. Technol.; (United States), Vol. 17:6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CARBON DIOXIDE
MONITORING
CARBON MONOXIDE
FORMALDEHYDE
KEROSENE
COMBUSTION
NITRIC OXIDE
NITROGEN DIOXIDE
PARTICULATES
SPACE HEATERS
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION
AIR POLLUTION
TESTING
ALDEHYDES
APPLIANCES
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
FUELS
HEATERS
LIQUID FUELS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDATION
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
POLLUTION
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
500200* - Environment
Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)