Crop Residue Burning Emission Coefficients for Multiple Pollutants and Crops

A collection of crop-specific coefficients for agricultural residue burning includes Emission Factors, Combustion Efficiencies, and Crop-to-Residue Ratios. The dataset, compiled by Joanne Hall of the University of Maryland, College Park, provides average values and standard deviations for pollutants like CO2, CO, CH4, NOx, SO2, NH3, PM2.5, and PM10.0. It covers major crops such as wheat, rice, sugarcane, maize, and several miscellaneous crops.

Use Cases

• Estimating regional air pollutant emissions from agricultural burning based on provided emission factors for specific crops.
• Modeling combustion completeness in fire emission inventories using the combustion efficiency values for wheat, maize, sugarcane, rice, and generic crops.
• Calculating available agricultural waste biomass using the crop-to-residue ratios for crops like wheat, maize, rice, cotton, and soybean.
• Assessing uncertainty in emission estimates by utilizing the average plus/minus one standard deviation values provided for each coefficient.

Strengths

• Provides coefficients for nine key air pollutants, including greenhouse gases and particulate matter.
• Includes uncertainty metrics (average plus/minus one standard deviation) for emission factors and combustion efficiencies.
• Covers multiple major and miscellaneous crop types, such as wheat, rice, sugarcane, maize, beans, alfalfa, and cotton.
• Each coefficient table is accompanied by a reference list citing author sources and study locations.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Maryland, College Park

Collection Method

Compiled from published literature and studies, as indicated by the referenced author citations.

Geography

Locations are referenced per study but a specific overall geographic coverage is not stated.