Air and climate pollutant emission factors, and assessment of oxidative and carcinogenic potential of fine particulate matter from agricultural residue burning.

The study is focused on the emissions from agricultural waste burning, which releases various pollutants impacting health and contributing to global warming, such as particulate matter, organic carbon aerosols, CO2, CH4, and CO. It aimed to determine emission factors for these pollutants from burning residues of sugarcane, corn, rice, sorghum, and wheat, employing a closed combustion chamber at Universidad Federico Santa María in Chile and an open combustion chamber at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico. The objective was to relate the physicochemical characteristics of the emissions to the combustion processes.