Air Pollution and Impact Analysis of a Pilot Stove Intervention: Report to the Ministry of Health and Inter-Ministerial Clean Stove Initiative of the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, 2015.
Authors: Hill LD, Pillarisetti A, Delapena S, Garland C, Jagoe K, Koetting P, Pelletreau A, Boatman MR, Pennise D, Smith KR.
This study evaluated the usage, air pollution, and fuel-use performance of an introduced advanced biomass stove (African Clean Energy (ACE)-1) based on measurements in 72 households in three villages of the Xonboury District of Savannakhet Province in early 2015. This amounted to 23 percent of all the households in these villages.
The report describes comparisons between household measurements conducted before stove introduction and those conducted approximately two weeks after introduction in the same households. Based on the best available health effects information, the report also estimates the potential health benefits of a large-scale introduction of this ACE-1 stove in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) compared to traditional biomass stoves, assuming the new ACE-1 stoves were to perform similarly in the large program.
