Finding · as stated by the study, recorded by Coridum · status verified-machine
Finding F-0818
“The average PM2.5 concentration (μg/m3) was higher in kitchens that burned wood (741.7 ± 546.4) and charcoal (107.0 ± 68.6) than in kitchens where LPG (52.3 ± 18.9) or electricity (52.0 ± 14.8) was used.”
Structure
- Factor
- Particulate matter (PM₂.₅ and PM₁₀)
- Setting
- kitchen, PY
- Study design
- cross-sectional monitoring in rural Paraguay: 24-hour time-integrated PM2.5 and continuous carbon monoxide in kitchens that cooked with wood on a three-stone fire, with charcoal in a metal brazier, with liquefied petroleum gas or with electricity, plus questionnaires and multivariable regression models of the two pollutants (class 4)
- Effect
- mean 52.0
- Averaging time
- 24 h
- Caveat
- even the gas and electric kitchens stay well above what an emission-free kitchen would show, which the authors attribute to neighbouring households
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