An Investigation on Emission of Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds for Residential Combustion Sources around Jabalpur (M.P.)

This paper highlights on field work approach to identifying the environmental pollution from the residential combustion of slump area in Jabalpur, India. This study developed a non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC) emission factor for the combustion of fuel wood, cow dung cake, charcoal, coal in Jabalpur India. Residential heating with fuel wood, cow dung cake, charcoal, coal is an important source of ambient (outdoor) air pollution; it can also cause substantial indoor air pollution through either direct introduction or infiltration from outside. Indication links emissions from fuel wood, cow dung cake, charcoal, coal heating to serious health effects such as breathing and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Wood and coal burning also release toxic compounds. The results obtainable in the report indicate that it will be difficult to tackle outdoor air pollution problems in many parts of the world deprived of addressing this source sector. A better understanding of the role of wood biomass heating as a major source of internationally harmful outdoor air pollutants (especially fine particles) is needed among national, regional and local administrations, politicians and the public at large. Cooking was carried out by a local cook, and traditional dishes were prepared on locally built chulha or agnathia cookstoves using brushwood or dung fuels. Alkynes and benzene were exceptions and had significantly higher emissions when cooking using a chulha as different to an angithi with dung fuel (for example, benzene emission factors were 3.18 g kg−1 fuel carbon for dung– chulha and 2.38 g kg−1 fuel carbon for dung–angithi). NVMOCs contain a large variability of chemically different composites, such as benzene, ethanol, formaldehyde, cyclohexane, 1,1,1-trichloroethane and acetone.