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Title: | Toxic potency-adjusted control of air pollution for solid fuel combustion | Authors: | Wu, D Zheng, H Li, Q Jin, L Lyu, R Ding, X Huo, Y Zhao, B Jiang, J Chen, J Li, X Wang, S |
Issue Date: | Feb-2022 | Source: | Nature energy, Feb. 2022, v. 7, no. 2, p. 194-202 | Abstract: | The combustion of solid fuels, including coal and biomass, is a main anthropogenic source of atmospheric particulate matter (PM). The hidden costs have been underestimated due to lack of consideration of the toxicity of PM. Here we report the unequal toxicity of inhalable PM emitted from energy use in the residential sector and coal-fired power plants (CFPPs). The incomplete burning of solid fuels in household stoves generates much higher concentrations of carbonaceous matter, resulting in more than one order of magnitude greater toxicity than that from CFPPs. When compared with CFPPs, the residential sector consumed only a tenth of solid fuels in mainland China in 2017, but it contributed about 200-fold higher of the population-weighted toxic potency-adjusted PM2.5 exposure risk. We suggest that PM2.5-related toxicity should be considered when making air pollution emission control strategies, and incomplete combustion sources should receive more policy attention to reduce exposure risks. | Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | Journal: | Nature energy | EISSN: | 2058-7546 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41560-021-00951-1 | Rights: | © The Author(s) 2022 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The following publication Wu, D., Zheng, H., Li, Q., Jin, L., Lyu, R., Ding, X., ... & Wang, S. (2022). Toxic potency-adjusted control of air pollution for solid fuel combustion. Nature Energy, 7(2), 194-202 is available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00951-1. |
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