Relationships between energy release, fuel mass loss, and trace gas and aerosol emissions during laboratory biomass fires

Patrick Freeborn; Martin J. Wooster; Wei Min Hao; Cecily A. Ryan; Bryce L. Nordgren; Stephen P. Baker; Charles Ichoku

doi:1029/2007JD008679

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Relationships between energy release, fuel mass loss, and trace gas and aerosol emissions during laboratory biomass fires

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Authors:

Patrick Freeborn, Martin J. Wooster, Wei Min Hao, Cecily A. Ryan, Bryce L. Nordgren, Stephen P. Baker, Charles Ichoku

Year:

2008

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/1029/2007JD008679

Source:

Journal of Geophysical Research. 113: D01301.

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Abstract

Forty-four small-scale experimental fires were conducted in a combustion chamber to examine the relationship between biomass consumption, smoke production, convective energy release, and middle infrared (MIR) measurements of fire radiative energy (FRE). Fuel bed weights, trace gas and aerosol particle concentrations, stack flow rate and temperature, and concurrent thermal images were collected during laboratory-controlled burns of vegetative fuels.

Keywords

biomass fires, energy release, fuel mass loss, trace gas, aerosol emissions

Citation

Freeborn, Patrick H.; Wooster, Martin J.; Hao, Wei Min; Ryan, Cecily A.; Nordgren, Bryce L.; Baker, Stephen P.; Ichoku, Charles. 2008. Relationships between energy release, fuel mass loss, and trace gas and aerosol emissions during laboratory biomass fires. Journal of Geophysical Research. 113: D01301.