Pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxide and ozone kill hundreds of thousands each year. One way to reduce these dangerous emissions is to switch to LPG.
The benefits or LPG have for long been demonstrated. Because it’s stored and transported as a liquid, it suits those distributed, small-scale applications. Because it burns like a gas, its particle (PM) emissions are negligible, and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) and ozone-precursors can be controlled to low levels.
In heating, LPG’s particles and ozone-precursor emissions are lower than heating oil’s and wood’s (biomass). A study by the Italian research institute INNOVHUB showed that oil boilers generate more than twice the PM emissions of a similar LPG boiler and that biomass appliances’ PM emissions can be 600 times higher than LPG ones. In transport, road vehicles running on LPG produce far fewer of the harmful emissions associated with traditional fuels that contribute to health and environmental problems.
In the run up of the air quality ministerial summit on January 30th in Brussels, Samuel Maubanc, General Manager of the AEGPL urges:
“The time has come for European leaders to seriously look at LPG as a cost-effective and readily available solution to fight air pollution and improve air quality in Europe.”
