Atmospheric emission budgets for domestic biomass burning in Kenya

Abstract

The thesis is the culmination of a series of efforts designed to quantify the annual contribution of domestic biofuel burning in Kenya to local, regional and global atmospheric trace gas budgets in 1997, by way of a questionnaire survey, bibliographic study and online smoke analysis in selected kitchens of the main consumers. The consumers included households, academic institutions and commercial catering outlets. The biofuel consumption rates and patterns for the major biofuel types, namely firewood, charcoal and crop residues were determined, so were the emission factors of CO and NO relative to CO2 for the respective biofuels. Finally, the emission budgets of these and other important trace gas emissions were computed.