The use of wood fuel pellets has proven to be well-suited for the small-scale market, enabling controlled and efficient combustion with low emission of products of incomplete combustion (PIC). Still, a potential for further emission reduction exists, and a thorough understanding of the influence of combustion conditions on the emission characteristics of air pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and particulatematter (PM), is important. The objective of the present work was to determine the effect of design changes, i.e., increasing the temperature and/or residence time, on the emission performance and characteristics for a pellet combustion device using a laboratory fixed-bed reactor (850 °C) in the bed zone with intensive, air-rich, and well-mixed conditions was illustrated forwood pellets combustion with almost a total depletion of all studied PIC. The importance of the residence time was shown to be limited, and the results emphasize the need for further verification studies and technology development work. Copyrigh © 2010 American Chemical Society.