Does moving home affect residential heating decisions? exploring heating fuel switching in Ireland

Households have been pointed out as a significant source of air pollution and climate change. In Europe, the 60% of energy used by households is for space heating. The present work focuses on improving the knowledge on residential heating characteristics in Greece. The full causal chain, from the appliances used to the pollutants emitted, is examined at thelocal scale. A crowdsourcing approach was followed for the collection of the necessary data for performing the emissions calculations. With the use of a Geographic Information System (GIS), dynamic maps were produced for each Greek region, providing the information produced in this study in gridded form. In terms of energy demands, it was found that Greece relies mainly on oil and biomass and secondarily on gas and electricity. The use of biomass burning as a main heating fuel is quite high inthe colder and rural areas, while it is popular as a secondary heating fuel inthe urban areas. The residential heating period in Greece lasts from October to April and it is even shorter in southern Greece. In terms of emissions, CO and PM10 had the highest values since they are related to biomass burning. NOx emissions are mainly emitted by the oil burned in boilers.

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Changes in the domestic heating fuel in Greece: effects on atmospheric chemistry and radiation

10.5194/acp-2017-139 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eleni Athanasopoulou ◽

Orestis Speyer ◽

Dominik Brunner ◽

Heike Vogel ◽

Bernhard Vogel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Atmospheric Chemistry ◽

Fossil Fuel ◽

Model Performance ◽

Chemical Profile ◽

Applied Model ◽

The Past ◽

Residential Heating ◽

Heating Fuel ◽

Aerosol Plume ◽

Aerosol Characterization

Abstract. For the past 8 years, Greece has been experiencing a major financial crisis which, among other side effects, led to a shift in the fuel used for residential heating from fossil fuel towards bio-fuels, primarily wood. This study simulates the fate of the residential wood burning aerosol plume (RWB smog) and implications on atmospheric chemistry and radiation, with the support of detailed aerosol characterization from measurements during the winter 2013–2014 in Athens. The applied model system (TNO-MACC_II emissions/COSMO-ART model) and configuration used, accurately predicts the frequent nighttime aerosol spikes (hourly PM10 > 75 μg m−3) and their chemical profile (carbonaceous components and ratios). Updated temporal and chemical RWB emission profiles, derived from measurements, were used, while the level of model performance was tested for different heating demand conditions, resulting to better agreement with measurements for Tmin

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Specification for chemical firelighters in solid form used for the ignition of solid fuels in residential heating and cooking appliances

10.3403/02258653u ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Solid Fuels ◽

Residential Heating ◽

Solid Form

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Marginal Fuel Switching and Price Volatility in PJM

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3324592 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Alessio Saretto ◽

Anastasia Shcherbakova ◽

Jeremy Lin

Keyword(s):

Price Volatility ◽

Fuel Switching

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Emissions of Gases and Volatile Organic Compounds from Residential Heating: A Comparison of Brown Coal Briquettes and Logwood Combustion

Energy & Fuels ◽

10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c01667 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Patrick Martens ◽

Hendryk Czech ◽

Jarkko Tissari ◽

Mika Ihalainen ◽

Heikki Suhonen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Volatile Organic Compounds ◽

Organic Compounds ◽

Brown Coal ◽

Residential Heating ◽

Volatile Organic

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The potential co-benefits for health, economy and climate by substituting raw coal with waste cooking oil as a winter heating fuel in rural households of northern China

Environmental Research ◽

10.1016/j.envres.2020.110683 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 194 ◽

pp. 110683

Author(s):

Nan Zhao ◽

Bowen Li ◽

Huan Li ◽

Gang Li ◽

Rucong Wu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Rural Households ◽

Northern China ◽

Waste Cooking Oil ◽

Health Economy ◽

Cooking Oil ◽

Heating Fuel

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Seasonality of the Airborne Ambient Soot Predominant Emission Sources Determined by Raman Microspectroscopy and Thermo-Optical Method

Atmosphere ◽

10.3390/atmos12060768 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 768

Author(s):

Natalia Zioła ◽

Kamila Banasik ◽

Mariola Jabłońska ◽

Janusz Janeczek ◽

Barbara Błaszczak ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Coal Combustion ◽

Carbonaceous Material ◽

Optical Transmittance ◽

Diesel Soot ◽

Raman Microspectroscopy ◽

Heating Season ◽

Residential Heating ◽

Long Time ◽

June July ◽

Measurement Campaigns

Raman microspectroscopy and thermo-optical-transmittance (TOT) method were used to study airborne ambient soot collected at the suburban air monitoring station in southern Poland during the residential heating (January-February) and non-heating (June–July) seasons of 2017. Carbonaceous material constituted on average 47.2 wt.% of PM2.5 during the heating season and 26.9 wt.% in the non-heating season. Average concentrations of OC (37.5 ± 11.0 μg/m3) and EC (5.3 ± 1.1 μg/m3) during the heating season were significantly higher than those in the non-heating season (OC = 2.65 ± 0.78 μg/m3, and EC = 0.39 ± 0.18 μg/m3). OC was a chief contributor to the TC mass concentration regardless of the season. All Raman parameters indicated coal combustion and biomass burning were the predominant sources of soot in the heating season. Diesel soot, which is structurally less ordered than soot from other sources, was dominant during the non-heating season. The D1 and G bands area ratio (D1A/GA) was the most sensitive Raman parameter that discriminated between various soot sources, with D1A/GA > 1 for diesel soot, and less than 1 for soot from coal and wood burning. Due to high daily variability of both TOT and Raman spectroscopy data, single-day measurements can be inconclusive regarding the soot source apportionment. Long-time measurement campaigns are recommended.

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