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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 8501

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Xianyu (Fisher) Wang

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Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Science (QAEHS), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, QLD 4102, Australia
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
Dr. Marta Oliveira

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REQUIMTE-LAQV-Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Instituto Politécnico do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431. 4249-072 Porto,Portugal
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
Dr. Branka Miljevic

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School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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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A Satellite Data Based Detailed Study of the Aerosol Emitted from Open Biomass Burning in Northeast China
by Shuaiyi Shi, Yanjun Ma, Fangwen Bao and Faisal Mumtaz
Atmosphere 2021, 12(12), 1700; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/atmos12121700 - 18 Dec 2021
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Due to its unique natural conditions and agricultural tradition, northeast China (NEC) has formed a distinctive open biomass burning habit with local-specific biomass burning aerosol features. In this research, with the help of a newly optimized biomass burning aerosol identification method, which combines [...] Read more.
Due to its unique natural conditions and agricultural tradition, northeast China (NEC) has formed a distinctive open biomass burning habit with local-specific biomass burning aerosol features. In this research, with the help of a newly optimized biomass burning aerosol identification method, which combines satellite aerosol and fire observational products with the HYSPLIT model forward trajectories, a systematic and quantitative analysis of aerosol emitted from open biomass burning in the NEC region are conducted to determine in detail its local-specific features, such as influence region, aging characteristics, and seasonal variation. During the 72-h aging process after biomass burning emission, aerosol particle size growth found with the Angstrom exponent declines from 1.6 to 1.54. Additionally, the volume fraction of black carbon decreases from 4.5% to 3.1%, leading to the Single Scattering Albedo (SSA) increasing from the fresh state of 0.84 to the aged state of 0.89. The cooling effect at TOA, due to the existence of aerosol, is enhanced by more than 70%, indicating its severe and dynamic influence on climate change. The average AOD in spring is 0.63, which is higher than autumn’s value of 0.52, indicating that biomass burning is more intensive in spring. Compared to autumn, aerosols emitted from spring biomass burning in the NEC region have lower sphere fraction, smaller particle size, higher volume fraction of black carbon, higher absorbability, and weaker cooling effect at TOA, which can be partly explained by the drier ambient environment and lower water content of the burned crop straw in spring. Full article
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Tracers from Biomass Burning Emissions and Identification of Biomass Burning
by Wenjing Li, Pengxiang Ge, Mindong Chen, Jiajie Tang, Maoyu Cao, Yan Cui, Kun Hu and Dongyang Nie
Atmosphere 2021, 12(11), 1401; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/atmos12111401 - 26 Oct 2021
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The major organic compositions from biomass burning emissions are monosaccharide derivatives from the breakdown of cellulose, generally accompanied by small amounts of straight-chain, aliphatic, oxygenated compounds, and terpenoids from vegetation waxes, resins/gums, and other biopolymers. Levoglucosan from cellulose can be utilized as a [...] Read more.
The major organic compositions from biomass burning emissions are monosaccharide derivatives from the breakdown of cellulose, generally accompanied by small amounts of straight-chain, aliphatic, oxygenated compounds, and terpenoids from vegetation waxes, resins/gums, and other biopolymers. Levoglucosan from cellulose can be utilized as a specific or general indicator for biomass combustion emissions in aerosol samples. There are other important compounds, such as dehydroabietic acid, syringaldehyde, syringic acid, vanillic acid, vanillin, homovanillic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, and p-coumaric acid, which are additional key indicators of biomass burning. In this review, we will address these tracers from different types of biomass burning and the methods used to identify the sources in ambient aerosols. First, the methods of inferring biomass burning types by the ratio method are summarized, including levoglucosan/mannose, syringic acid/vanillic acid, levolgucosan/K+, vanillic acid/4-hydroxybenzoic acid, levoglucosan/OC, and levoglucosan/EC to infer the sources of biomass burning, such as crop residual burning, wheat burning, leaf burning, peatland fire, and forest fire in Asia. Second, we present the source tracer ratio methods that determine the biomass combustion types and their contributions. Finally, we introduce the PCA (Principal component analysis) and PMF (Positive matrix factor) methods to identify the type of biomass burning and its contributions according to emission factors of different species in various plants such as softwood, hardwood, and grass. Full article
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