Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from domestic fuel

These hydrocarbons comprise many of the carcinogens in tobacco smoke and they are also in wood and coal smoke.

UK PAH emissions 1999
kg
%
coal
19035
21.6
ssf
1316
1.5
wood
13407
15.2
total domestic
33758
38.3
diesel exhaust
1266
1.4
petrol exhaust
5889
6.7
total road transport
7155
8.1

 
Domestic combustion emission factors
(wood is higher than main table as the source for this data gave breakdown for the 16 PAH's)

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon
UK Coal emission factor
(mg/kg)
UK Wood emission factor
(mg/kg)
Wood burning stove
(mg/kg)

Napthalene 123.34
90.3
144
Acenapthene 
5.24
3.1
5
Acenapthylene
7.15
78.6
106
Fluorene 
16.21
8.3
12
Anthracene 
1.85
6.5
7
Phenanthrene 
6.56
24.4
39
Fluoranthrene
2.98
6.9
1
Pyrene 
2.98
7.3
12
Benzo[a]anthracene 
1.79
5.0
10
Chrysene 
1.67
3.8
6
Benzo[b]Fluoranthene 
0.07
1.5
3
Benzo[k]Fluoranthrene 
0.02
0.5
1
Benzo[a]pyrene
1.55
1.3
2
Dibenzo[ah]anthracene
1.79
0.02
1 est
Indeno[123cd]pyrene 
1.19
0.09
< 1
Benzo[ghi]perylene
0.82
1.0
2
Total 16 PAH
175.21
238.61
352
Total all PAH
185 est
250 est
365
 

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