Cookstove air pollution: Emission profiles and subclinical effects of exposure

炉灶空气污染：排放概况和暴露的亚临床影响

• 批准号: 9066302
• 负责人: Jennifer L Peel
• 金额: $ 1.16万
• 依托单位: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9066302
• 关键词: Accounting; Acute; Address; Aerosols; Air Pollutants; Air Pollution; Area; Aromatic Polycyclic Hydrocarbons; Blood Pressure; Burn injury; Carbon; Carbon Black; Cardiovascular system; Categories; Climate; Coagulation Process; Complement; Cookstove; Data; Data Set; Elbow; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Equipment and supply inventories; Exhalation; Exposure to; Fire - disasters; Future; Gases; Health; Health Benefit; Health Hazards; Household; Human; Inflammation; International; Isocyanates; Knowledge; Laboratories; Lead; Light; Mass Spectrum Analysis; Measurement; Modeling; Motor Vehicles; Nitric Oxide; Optics; Oxidative Stress; Particulate; Petroleum; Phase; Planets; Platelet Activation; Property; Radon; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Assessment; Sanitation; Smoke; Source; System; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Vent; Water; air filter; base; burden of illness; climate change; climate impact; design; drinking water; experience; exposed human population; falls; field study; global health; heart rate variability; human morbidity; human mortality; improved; indexing; insight; meetings; novel; open source; particulate pollutant; planetary Atmosphere; pollutant; programs; response; solid fuel; ultrafine particle; weather patterns

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Approximately three billion people use traditional, inefficient and poorly vented indoor cookstoves to meet basic energy needs. Exposure to air pollutant emissions from these cookstoves, experienced primarily by the world's poorest people, accounts for 4.5% of the global burden of disease. This form of combustion is also the second leading source of light-absorbing carbon in the atmosphere. To address this problem, one focus has been to develop solid-fuel combustion technologies (i.e., improved or cleaner-burning stoves) that are more fuel efficient, affordable, and less polluting. The design and dissemination of cleaner stove technologies could have the single largest benefit to human and environmental health since the emergence of distributed water/sanitation systems in the previous century. The prevailing hypothesis is that any cleaner-burning stove (relative to traditional, open fires) will improve health; however, this hypothesis has not been rigorously tested. Improved stoves can vary widely in terms of pollutant emissions. This project, therefore, seeks to develop credible and representative laboratory data as a first step to test the improved stoves hypothesis and to improve our ability to address this massive threat to global health. We propose two specific aims. The first aim will develop a comprehensive profile of gaseous and particulate pollutants emitted from traditional and improved cookstoves. This aim will develop a more complete inventory of the toxic and climate-forcing pollutants emitted from residential cookstove combustion; these emissions are poorly understood and are likely different from well-characterized combustion sources (e.g., motor vehicles). This aim will provide more credible data for risk assessments and climate impact models, inform better stove design, and will aid our interpretation of health effects observed here (Aim 2) and in other studies. The emissions inventory will be made available online in an open-source format for use by researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders. The second aim is to conduct a controlled human exposure study to investigate acute, subclinical effects of exposure to emissions from prevalent cookstove technologies. We will investigate markers of cardiorespiratory health (blood pressure, heart rate variability, augmentation index, exhaled nitric oxide, and markers of systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, coagulation, and platelet activation) in response to short-term exposures from five different stove types producing emissions that fall into various Tier categories promulgated by the International Standards Organization (ISO); several of the ISO Tier categories will result in air pollution concentrations that greatly exceed regulatory levels i the developed world. Thus, whether the introduction of improved stoves representing each of the Tiers within these newly-promulgated standards will produce meaningful health benefits is unclear. This is the first study to quantify the relationship between markers of cardiorespiratory health and exposure to a broad range of stove technologies. This research will inform future directions for stove programs while providing needed insight into the question, "How clean is clean enough?"

描述(申请人提供)：约有30亿人使用传统、低效和通风不良的室内炉灶来满足基本的能源需求。主要由世界上最贫穷的人经历的这些炉灶排放的空气污染物，占全球疾病负担的4.5%。这种燃烧形式也是大气中吸光碳的第二大来源。为了解决这个问题，一个重点是开发更省油、负担得起、污染更少的固体燃料燃烧技术(即改进或更清洁的燃烧炉子)。清洁炉灶技术的设计和传播可能是自上个世纪分布式水/卫生系统出现以来对人类和环境健康产生的最大单一惠益。流行的假设是，任何燃烧更清洁的炉子(相对于传统的露天炉火)都会改善健康；然而，这一假设还没有得到严格的检验。改进后的炉子在污染物排放方面可以有很大的差异。因此，该项目寻求开发可信和有代表性的实验室数据，作为检验改进的炉灶假说和提高我们应对这一对全球健康的巨大威胁的能力的第一步。我们提出了两个具体目标。第一个目标将对传统和改进的炉灶排放的气体和颗粒污染物进行全面的概述。这一目标将制定一份关于住宅炉灶燃烧排放的有毒和迫使气候变化的污染物的更完整清单；人们对这些排放知之甚少，很可能与特征明确的燃烧源(例如机动车辆)不同。这一目标将为风险评估和气候影响模型提供更可信的数据，为更好的炉灶设计提供信息，并将有助于我们解释在这里(目标2)和其他研究中观察到的健康影响。排放清单将以开源格式在线提供，供研究人员、政策制定者和其他利益攸关方使用。第二个目标是进行受控人体暴露研究，以调查暴露于流行的炉灶技术排放的急性亚临床影响。我们将调查心肺健康的标志物(血压、心率变异性、增强指数、呼出的一氧化氮，以及全身炎症、氧化应激、凝血和血小板激活的标志物)，以应对来自五种不同类型炉具的短期暴露，这些排放物属于国际标准组织(ISO)颁布的各种等级类别；ISO Tier类别中的几个类别将导致空气污染浓度大大超过发达国家的监管水平。因此，在这些新颁布的标准中引入代表每个级别的改进炉具是否会产生有意义的健康益处尚不清楚。这是第一项量化心肺健康标志物与接触广泛炉灶技术之间关系的研究。这项研究将为炉具项目的未来方向提供信息，同时为“多干净才够干净？”这个问题提供必要的见解。