A critical review on performance indicators for evaluating soil biota and soil health of biochar-amended soils

M He, X Xiong, L Wang, D Hou, NS Bolan… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Amendment of soil with biochar has been widely investigated for soil quality improvement in
terms of biotic and abiotic functionalities. The performance of biochar-based amendment …

Biochar as a sorbent for emerging contaminants enables improvements in waste management and sustainable resource use

L Li, D Zou, Z Xiao, X Zeng, L Zhang, L Jiang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants have recently been recognized as new and significant water
pollutants and gained great of concerns because of their considerable effects on …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in understanding biochar's physical–chemistry

P Conte, R Bertani, P Sgarbossa, P Bambina… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biochar is a porous material obtained by biomass thermal degradation in oxygen-starved
conditions. It is nowadays applied in many fields. For instance, it is used to synthesize new …

Stability of biochar in mineral soils: assessment methods, influencing factors and potential problems

H Wang, Q Nan, M Waqas, W Wu - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Amendment of biochar into mineral soils has been reported a promising strategy for carbon
sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation due to its high stability. Currently, most studies …

[HTML][HTML] Polyaromatic hydrocarbons in biochars and human health risks of food crops grown in biochar-amended soils: A synthesis study

J Wang, ES Odinga, W Zhang, X Zhou, B Yang… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil amendment with biochars is currently being studied worldwide as a sustainable
agricultural practice to improve soil and water quality, increase crop productivity, and …

Ensuring safety standards in sewage sludge-derived biochar: Impact of pyrolysis process temperature and carrier gas on micropollutant removal

F Schlederer, E Martín-Hernández… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of sewage sludge to agricultural land is facing increasing restrictions due to
concerns about various micropollutants, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) …

[HTML][HTML] Application of biochar to soils may result in plant contamination and human cancer risk due to exposure of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

J Wang, K Xia, MG Waigi, Y Gao, ES Odinga… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biochars are added to soil to improve agronomic yield. This greenhouse-and field-scale
study evaluated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination in 35 commercial and …

The characterization of biochars derived from rice straw and swine manure, and their potential and risk in N and P removal from water

L Luo, G Wang, G Shi, M Zhang, J Zhang, J He… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the plant residual derived biochars have been widely applied to remove nitrogen
(N) and phosphorus (P) from water. However, the application of animal manure derived …

[HTML][HTML] Dioxins and furans in biochars, hydrochars and torreficates produced by thermochemical conversion of biomass: a review

Ł Sobol, A Dyjakon, K Soukup - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2023 - Springer
Converting raw biomass into valuable products protects the environment, improves
economics, and helps tackle climate change by cutting resource demand and waste …

[HTML][HTML] Biochar can mitigate co-selection and control antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) in compost and soil

C Ejileugha - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Heavy metals (HMs) contamination raises the expression of antibiotic resistance (AR) in
bacteria through co-selection. Biochar application in composting improves the effectiveness …