A comprehensive review of engineered biochar: production, characteristics, and environmental applications

HKS Panahi, M Dehhaghi, YS Ok, AS Nizami… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
A sustainable management of environment and agriculture is crucial to protect soil, water,
and air during intensified agriculture practices as well as huge industrial and transportation …

Biochar for wastewater treatment—conversion technologies and applications

G Enaime, A Baçaoui, A Yaacoubi, M Lübken - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Biochar as a stable carbon-rich material shows incredible potential to handle
water/wastewater contaminants. Its application is gaining increasing interest due to the …

KOH-activated high surface area Douglas Fir biochar for adsorbing aqueous Cr (VI), Pb (II) and Cd (II)

A Herath, CA Layne, F Perez, EIB Hassan… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar has become a popular research topic in sustainable chemistry for use both in
agriculture and pollution abatement. To enhance aqueous Cr (VI), Pb (II) and Cd (II) removal …

Biochar as potential sustainable precursors for activated carbon production: Multiple applications in environmental protection and energy storage

X Tan, S Liu, Y Liu, Y Gu, G Zeng, X Hu, X Wang… - Bioresource …, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest of the scientific community on production of activated carbon
using biochar as potential sustainable precursors pyrolyzed from biomass wastes. Physical …

Emerging novel polymeric adsorbents for removing dyes from wastewater: a comprehensive review and comparison with other adsorbents

O Moradi, G Sharma - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
Dye molecules are one of the most hazardous compounds for human and animal health and
the excess intake of these materials can create toxic impacts. Several studies show the …

Magnetic activated biochar nanocomposites derived from wakame and its application in methylene blue adsorption

X Yao, L Ji, J Guo, S Ge, W Lu, L Cai, Y Wang… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, magnetic wakame biochar nanocomposites for the first time had been
synthesized to investigate their adsorption to methylene blue dye. As-prepared magnetic …

Application of biochar for the removal of pollutants from aqueous solutions

X Tan, Y Liu, G Zeng, X Wang, X Hu, Y Gu, Z Yang - Chemosphere, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, many studies have been devoted to investigate the application of biochar for
pollutants removal from aqueous solutions. Biochar exhibits a great potential to efficiently …

Study on the adsorption of dyestuffs with different properties by sludge-rice husk biochar: adsorption capacity, isotherm, kinetic, thermodynamics and mechanism

S Chen, C Qin, T Wang, F Chen, X Li, H Hou… - Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
The adsorption capacity, isotherm, kinetics, thermodynamics and mechanism of four dyes
with different properties on a novel economical sludge-rice husk biochar (SRHB) were …

Organic and inorganic contaminants removal from water with biochar, a renewable, low cost and sustainable adsorbent–a critical review

D Mohan, A Sarswat, YS Ok, CU Pittman Jr - Bioresource technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Biochar is used for soil conditioning, remediation, carbon sequestration and water
remediation. Biochar application to water and wastewater has never been reviewed …

An abundant porous biochar material derived from wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) with high adsorption performance for three organic dyes

X Yao, L Ji, J Guo, S Ge, W Lu, Y Chen, L Cai… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, an activated wakame biochar material (AWBM) was prepared by a one-step
calcination and activation method, whose adsorption performances for methylene blue (MB) …