Particulate Emissions from Home Heating Devices
(Normalized to 9,000 BTU/HR. heat output)

Noncertified woodstove
10 gr/hr

(30 houses heating with uncertified woodstoves create as much particulate pollution as 30,000 houses heating with natural gas)
source: 1990 EPA Emissions Factors

Certified woodstove
4 gr/hr
(30 houses heating with uncertified woodstoves create as much particulate pollution as 12,000 houses heating with natural gas)
source: Glen Falls Woodstove Study
Pellet stove
1 gr/hr
(30 houses heating with uncertified woodstoves create as much particulate pollution as 3,000 houses heating with natural gas)
source: Klamath Falls Pellet Stove Study

Oil furnace
0.02 gr/hr
source: 1990 EPA Emission Factors
Gas furnace
0.02 gr/hr
source: 1990 EPA Emission Factors

Prepared by: Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency (circa 1992)
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