Biochar for agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, water treatment, soil remediation, construction, energy storage, and carbon sequestration: a …

AI Osman, S Fawzy, M Farghali, M El-Azazy… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
In the context of climate change and the circular economy, biochar has recently found many
applications in various sectors as a versatile and recycled material. Here, we review …

Multifunctional applications of biochar beyond carbon storage

N Bolan, SA Hoang, J Beiyuan… - International …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Biochar is produced as a charred material with high surface area and abundant functional
groups by pyrolysis, which refers to the process of thermochemical decomposition of organic …

Multifaceted applications of biochar in environmental management: a bibliometric profile

A Kumar, T Bhattacharya, WA Shaikh, A Roy… - Biochar, 2023 - Springer
Biochar is a carbon-containing material prepared through thermal treatment of biomass in
limited supply of oxygen, and used for an array of applications including waste …

Carbon myopia: The urgent need for integrated social, economic and environmental action in the livestock sector

MT Harrison, BR Cullen, DE Mayberry… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Livestock have long been integral to food production systems, often not by choice but by
need. While our knowledge of livestock greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation has …

Activated Carbon, Biochar and Charcoal: Linkages and Synergies across Pyrogenic Carbon's ABCs

N Hagemann, K Spokas, HP Schmidt, R Kägi… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Biochar and activated carbon, both carbonaceous pyrogenic materials, are important
products for environmental technology and intensively studied for a multitude of purposes. A …

Advances and future directions of biochar characterization methods and applications

AD Igalavithana, S Mandal, NK Niazi… - Critical reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Biochar is a carbon-rich by-product of the thermal conversion of organic feedstocks and is
primarily used as a soil amendment. Identification and quantification of biochar properties …

Role of biochar in promoting circular economy in the agriculture sector. Part 1: A review of the biochar roles in soil N, P and K cycles

K Jindo, Y Audette, FS Higashikawa, CA Silva… - Chemical and Biological …, 2020 - Springer
Recently, biochar has been widely used for versatile applications in agriculture and
environment sectors as an effective tool to minimise waste and to increase the efficiency of …

Long-term aging of biochar: a molecular understanding with agricultural and environmental implications

S Mia, FA Dijkstra, B Singh - Advances in agronomy, 2017 - Elsevier
Biochar has unveiled a new avenue for carbon (C) sequestration and has shown the
potential to increase agricultural productivity. Although there is still debate about the …

Biochar as a tool to reduce the agricultural greenhouse-gas burden–knowns, unknowns and future research needs

C Kammann, J Ippolito, N Hagemann… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Agriculture and land use change has significantly increased atmospheric emissions of the
non-CO2 green-house gases (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). Since human …

The use of biochar in animal feeding

HP Schmidt, N Hagemann, K Draper, C Kammann - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Biochar, that is, carbonized biomass similar to charcoal, has been used in acute medical
treatment of animals for many centuries. Since 2010, livestock farmers increasingly use …