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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Energy Sustain Dev. 2018 Jun 11;46:71–81. doi: 10.1016/j.esd.2018.05.011

Table 1.

Relative health-damaging pollutant emissions of various fuels relative to LPG (g/MJd)

Emissions Biogas LPG Kerosene Wood Residues Crop
CO 0.1 1 3 19 60
Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5 1 1.3 26 124

Source: (Smith, Rogers, & Cowlin, 2005; Smith et al., 2000). Note: The values are shown as grams per megajoule of energy delivered to the cooking pot