Biochar regulates anaerobic digestion: Insights to the roles of pore size

ZW He, AH Li, CC Tang, AJ Zhou, W Liu, YX Ren… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Adding biochar to anaerobic digestion (AD) system is an attractive regulation strategy to
promote methane production efficiency from wastes/wastewater. The biochar has high …

A comprehensive review of the “Black gold catalysts” in wastewater treatment: Properties, applications and bibliometric analysis

C Huang, Y Zhai - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
A significant amount of effort has been devoted to the utilization of biochar-based catalysts in
the treatment of wastewater. By virtue of its abundant functional groups and high specific …

Discovery of an End-to-End Pattern for Contaminant-Oriented Advanced Oxidation Processes Catalyzed by Biochar with Explainable Machine Learning

R Wang, H Chen, Z He, S Zhang, K Wang… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The utilization of biochar-catalyzed peroxymonosulfate in advanced oxidation processes
(BC-PMS AOPs) is widely acknowledged as an effective and economical method for …

A new approach to explore and assess the sustainable remediation of chromium-contaminated wastewater by biochar based on 3E model

J Huang, X Tan, Y Xie, X Wu, SL Dahn, Z Duan, I Ali… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
As a cost-effective material, biochar, known as 'black gold', has been widely used for
environmental applications (EA), including chromium-contaminated wastewater …

Synthesis of two-dimensional petal-like LaCO3OH biochar for phosphorus capture from water at low concentrations

Q Xu, J Xiao, X He, G Chen, Z Huang, T Yuan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Effectively managing phosphorus (P) concentrations in waterbody is essential to curb
eutrophication. In this study, we employed wetland plant Canna indica straw to create …

Colloidal fraction on pomelo peel-derived biochar plays a dual role as electron shuttle and adsorbent in controlling arsenic transformation in anoxic paddy soil

R Zhong, D Pan, G Huang, G Yang, X Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Arsenic release and reduction in anoxic environments can be mitigated or facilitated by
biochar amendment. However, the key fractions in biochars and how they control arsenic …

Highly stable mesoporous-controlled corncob biochar confined paraffinic material with exceptional latent heat retention performance

DG Atinafu, JY Choi, BY Yun, Y Kang, S Kim - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
Bio-based composites fabricated from bio-sourced waste feedstocks have attracted
increasing interest and have shown potential applications in sustainable energy …

Effect of granulated biochar sphere on mineral nutrients in removing potentially toxic elements from contaminated agricultural soils

Y Wu, Z Wang, Y Yan, Y Zhou, Z Xue, B Huma… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biochar (BC) granulation, yielding BC-based spheres, serves as an eco-friendly, cost-
effective and efficient adsorbent for the removal of potential toxic elements (PTEs) from …

Advancements in biochar-catalyzed peroxides for water decontamination: A future perspective on addressing antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes

Y Wu, J Bai, X Wang, CP Yu, Z Hu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing contamination of water bodies with antibiotics, along with the emergence of
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), poses a significant threat to both ecological systems and …

A META analysis on the efficacy of functional materials for soil chromium remediation

G Zhixuan, WEN Jia, JI Xiaodi - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Metallic chromium pollution in soil is widespread, which aroused intensive research in
recent decades. In mainstream research, most studies use materials with a reducing ability …