Biochar as a soil amendment for restraining greenhouse gases emission and improving soil carbon sink: Current situation and ways forward

A Mosa, MM Mansour, E Soliman, A El-Ghamry… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The global exponential rise in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the last few decades
has triggered an urgent need to contextualize low-cost and evergreen technologies for …

Biogas Steam Reforming in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Opportunities and Challenges

JF González, CM Álvez-Medina, S Nogales-Delgado - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydrogen as an energy vector is going to play an important role in the global energy mix. On
the other hand, wastewater management has become a worldwide concern, as urban …

Effect of biochar on the mitigation of organic volatile fatty acid emission during aerobic biostabilization of biosolids and the underlying mechanism

X Ma, S Li, R Pan, Z Wang, J Li, X Zhang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to declare the effect and the underlying mechanism of biochar amendment on
volatile fatty acid (VFA) emission during aerobic biostabilization of biosolids, different types …

[HTML][HTML] Biochar derived from traditional Chinese medicine residues: An efficient adsorbent for heavy metal Pb (II)

J Yuan, C Wang, Z Tang, T Chu, C Zheng… - Arabian Journal Of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biochar (BC) is widely used in the remediation of soil and wastewater polluted by heavy
metals, but there are few reports on the characteristics of biochar derived via pyrolysis from …

Deashed wheat-straw biochar as a potential superabsorbent for pesticides

I Ćwieląg-Piasecka, E Jamroz, A Medyńska-Juraszek… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biochar activation methods have attracted extensive attention due to their great role in
improving sorptive properties of carbon-based materials. As a result, chemically modified …

Solvent-free synthesis of magnetic sewage sludge-derived biochar for heavy metal removal from wastewater

J Tian, K Guo, Y Sun, R Lin, T Chen, B Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The commonly used two-step and one-pot synthesis methods for producing biochar require
the use of iron salt solutions, resulting in the undesirable consequences of energy …

Porous biochar materials for sustainable water treatment: synthesis, modification, and application

R Li, Y Wu, X Lou, H Li, J Cheng, B Shen, L Qin - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the current world, the increasingly developed industries of mankind have caused huge
pollution to the earth on which we live. And the water resources, which are the source of …

Socio-environmental externalities of sewage waste management

CSS Comineti, MM Schlindwein… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional sewage management is expensive and inefficient, putting the environment
and public health at risk, making access to sewage services difficult for everyone. Reusing …

[HTML][HTML] Pilot-scale study of sorption-enhanced gasification of sewage sludge

S Moles, I Martinez, MS Callén, J Gómez, JM López… - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Sustainable management and disposal alternatives for sewage sludge (SS) should be
pursued due to the substantial increment in its global production, as well as due to the …

Acidification of European croplands by nitrogen fertilization: Consequences for carbonate losses, and soil health

K Zamanian, R Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, J Tao… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil acidification is an ongoing problem in intensively cultivated croplands due to inefficient
and excessive nitrogen (N) fertilization. We collected high-resolution data comprising 19,969 …