Emissions from Biomass Burning
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 October 2021) | Viewed by 10448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: air pollution; organic pollutants; passive air sampling; long-term monitoring; sources and pathways; environmental monitoring; human biomonitoring; exposure monitoring; trace pollutant analysis; environmental specimen banking
Interests: environmental monitoring; occupational exposure; human biomonitoring; air quality; forest fires; particulate matter; Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs); monohydroxyl-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (OH-PAHs); health risk assessment
Interests: air pollution; combustion aerosols; marine aerosols; secondary organic aerosols; biomass burning; aerosol mass spectrometry; health effects of aerosols
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air quality regulations and technology advancement in recent years have led to a reduction in human exposure to air pollution. Meanwhile, emissions from biomass burning, such as wildfires/bushfires, agricultural burning, and peat fires, have remained relatively stable, if not increased, and thus have become a relatively more important source of various air pollutants over time. Understanding the emissions of hazardous substances from biomass burning is very important for air pollution monitoring and public health. Relevant research on particles, traces gases, semi-volatile organic compounds, and environmentally persistent free radicals has highlighted the hazardous effects of biomass burning emissions, including contributing to climate change. Globally, open-field biomass burning is estimated to contribute ~12% of mortality associated with air pollution.
Biomass burning is a complex combustion process occurring in materials (i.e., plant and soil) rich with organic matter as well as various inorganic compounds. This condition may favor (trans)formation (such as de novo formation, dechlorination, etc.), volatilization (i.e., thermally stable chemicals remobilized untransformed from plant and soil due to increased temperatures), and the destruction of a wide range of organic compounds. Subsequent to emission, some of these compounds may undergo long-range atmospheric transportation either in gaseous phase or absorbed/adsorbed onto the co-emitted particulate matter.
This Special Issue welcomes original research on the emissions of hazardous substances from biomass burning, including both field work and laboratory simulation studies. The main aims of this Special Issue include but are not limited to the estimation of emission factors, understanding chemical and particle transformation/evolution processes during burning and transportation, and exploring the role of open-field biomass burning as a source of hazardous substances that are released into the atmosphere in regional and global scales with potential risks to the environment and to the health of exposed populations.
Dr. Xianyu (Fisher) Wang
Dr. Marta Oliveira
Dr. Branka Miljevic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Wildfires
- Open-field biomass burning
- Biomass burning laboratory simulations
- Emissions of organic contaminants
- Ageing of biomass burning emissions
- Air pollution
- Emission factors
- Environmental risks
- Human exposure
- Public health
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