Authors
Bernd RT Simoneit, James J Schauer, CG Nolte, Daniel R Oros, Vladimir O Elias, MP Fraser, WF Rogge, Glen R Cass
Publication date
1999/1/1
Journal
Atmospheric Environment
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
173-182
Publisher
Pergamon
Description
The major organic components of smoke particles from biomass burning are monosaccharide derivatives from the breakdown of cellulose, accompanied by generally lesser amounts of straight-chain, aliphatic and oxygenated compounds and terpenoids from vegetation waxes, resins/gums, and other biopolymers. Levoglucosan and the related degradation products from cellulose can be utilized as specific and general indicator compounds for the presence of emissions from biomass burning in samples of atmospheric fine particulate matter. This enables the potential tracking of such emissions on a global basis. There are other compounds (e.g. amyrones, friedelin, dehydroabietic acid, and thermal derivatives from terpenoids and from lignin—syringaldehyde, vanillin, syringic acid, vanillic acid), which are additional key indicators in smoke from burning of biomass specific to the type of biomass fuel. The …
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