Table 2:
Concentrations of chemicals in the biomass smoke condensates in g/kg fuel
| Smoldering | Flaming | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Needle | Red Oak | Pine Chips | Eucalyptus | Peat | Pine Needle | Red Oak | Pine Chips | Eucalyptus | Peat | |
| Methoxyphenols | 1496.06 | 4075.83 | 9265.05 | 3469.22 | 825.52 | 3.82 | 1.25 | 15.58 | 14.76 | 0.57 |
| Levoglucosan | 1691.05 | 10347.88 | 6611.37 | 8438.90 | 2911.24 | 14.81 | 39.17 | 61.90 | 124.57 | 10.29 |
| n-Alkanes | 71.97 | 4.44 | 9.85 | 107.80 | 660.27 | 0.05 | 3.58 | 1.80 | 0.77 | 3.23 |
| PAHs | 243.34 | 11.16 | 70.21 | 15.24 | 45.72 | 0.11 | 0.23 | 5.28 | 5.09 | 0.17 |
| Steranes | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
| Hopanes | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| OC | 68384.54 | 69466.15 | 85752.77 | 85225.03 | 56712.10 | 433.07 | 660.70 | 513.89 | 618.26 | 512.69 |
| MCE | 73 | 98.6 | 71 | 98 | 76 | 97 | 83.5 | 98.1 | 63 | 98 |
Adapted from Kim et al. 2018. EOM – extractable organic material; PAHs – polyaromatic hydrocarbons, OC – organic carbon; MCE – modified combustion efficiency