The Role of Biochar in Soil and Water Treatment Processes
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 684
Special Issue Editors
Interests: materials; wastewater treatment; material characterization; X-ray diffraction; SEM analysis; nanomaterials; material characteristics; advanced materials; nanomaterials synthesis; mechanical properties
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Interests: bioenergy; biofuels; biochar; pyrolysis; gasification; refuse derived fuels; biomass wastes
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Dear Colleagues,
Biochars are charcoals used for non-fuel purposes i.e., adsorbents, soil amendment materials, activated carbon precursors, etc.. Biochar production is carried out via the thermal degradation of lignocellulosic biomass under oxygen-free or oxygen-limited conditions. The thermal degradation parameters of the biomass, such as the pyrolysis temperature, heating rate, pyrolysis time, etc., can be tailored to produce a variety of biochars with different porosities and surface chemical groups. This highly variable physical and chemical composition of the biochars offers an opportunity to use them in different soil amendment and water treatment conditions. The aim of this Special Issue is to survey the recent developments in the use of biochars for soil amendment and water treatment applications. The specific objectives include the selection of biochar precursors, the tuning of water adsorption, and leaching from biochars, as well as the tuning of the adsorption properties of biochars for water treatments such as the removal of heavy metals and organic pollutants.
Dr. Ali Umut Sen
Dr. Catarina Nobre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biochar
- soil
- water retention
- slow-release fertilizer
- heavy metals
- organic pollutants
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