Does biochar improve soil water retention? A systematic review and meta-analysis

F Razzaghi, PB Obour, E Arthur - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Biochar is widely suggested as a soil amendment to improve soil physical properties for crop
production. However, the heterogeneity between experiments in terms of biochar …

Biochar implications for the engineering properties of soils: A review

Y Lu, K Gu, Z Shen, CS Tang, B Shi, Q Zhou - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Use of biochar as a soil amendment for climate change mitigation and environmental
remediation has been intensively studied over the past decade, yet the growing interest in …

Valorization of biomass waste to engineered activated biochar by microwave pyrolysis: Progress, challenges, and future directions

SY Foong, RK Liew, Y Yang, YW Cheng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Biomass waste represents the promising surrogate of fossil fuels for energy recovery and
valorization into value-added products. Among thermochemical conversion techniques of …

Biochar and soil physical properties

H Blanco-Canqui - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas Biochar generally improves the soil physical environment Sandy soils appear to
respond more to biochar than clayey soils Long‐term studies are needed to conclusively …

Impact of biochar on water retention of two agricultural soils–A multi-scale analysis

D Wang, C Li, SJ Parikh, KM Scow - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability of soil to retain water under drought and other extreme hydrological events is
critical to the sustainability of food production systems and preserving soil ecosystem …

Soil carbon increased by twice the amount of biochar carbon applied after 6 years: Field evidence of negative priming

H Blanco‐Canqui, DA Laird, EA Heaton… - GCB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Applying biochar to agricultural soils has been proposed as a means of sequestering carbon
(C) while simultaneously enhancing soil health and agricultural sustainability. However, our …

The 3R principles for applying biochar to improve soil health

M Guo - Soil Systems, 2020 - mdpi.com
Amending soil with biochar is a promising approach to persistently improve soil health and
promote crop growth. The efficacy of soil biochar amendment, however, is soil specific …

Addition of biochar to a sandy desert soil: Effect on crop growth, water retention and selected properties

KD Alotaibi, JJ Schoenau - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Agricultural and environmental applications of biochar (BC) to soils have received
increasing attention as a possible means of improving productivity and sustainability. Most …

Process simulation of preparing biochar by biomass pyrolysis via aspen plus and its economic evaluation

Y Liu, X Yang, J Zhang, Z Zhu - Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2022 - Springer
Purpose China is a big agricultural country and generates a large amount of biomass
wastes every year. Biomass is the only renewable carbon source, which can produce …

The preliminary study of water-retention related properties of biochar produced from various feedstock at different pyrolysis temperatures

K Kameyama, T Miyamoto, Y Iwata - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Physicochemical properties of biochar, which are used as a soil amendment material in
agricultural fields, are different depending on biomass feedstock and pyrolysis processes. In …