NANO-AETHALOMETER: Understanding Biomass Cooking Behaviors, 2014.
Julien Caubel, Daniel Wilson. Center for Effective Global Action.
Research Purpose – Measure geographic distribution of BC to monitor where and how biomass is burned, and understand the resulting impacts on human health and environment.
- Current technologies are too expensive, cumbersome or unreliable at measuring BC
- Need for a low-cost, compact instrument that can be deployed both on the ground and in the air to accurately and directly measure BC distributions on large scale
Project Summary – Lightweight, compact BC sensor built and tested.Measurement performance is comparable to costlycommercial instruments.
- Balloon launched successfully in India with satellitebasedglobal telemetry and communications system
- The Nano-Aethalometer will be deployed both on theground and in the air around rural communities inIndia to monitor biomass cookstove user trends andbehaviors
- Ultimately, this data and information will enable moreeffective reductions of the health and environmentalimpacts associated with biomass cookstoves in thedeveloping world
