The effects of biochar addition on soil physicochemical properties: A review

Y Zhang, J Wang, Y Feng - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Excessive land use has a series consequences on the degradation of land function and
exerts tremendous pressure on the ecological environment. Farming, mining, and heavy …

Biochar for soil applications-sustainability aspects, challenges and future prospects

M Kamali, N Sweygers, S Al-Salem, L Appels… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biochar has recently proven to be effective in various applications including soil amendment
for crop production and removal of pollutants from the contaminated water and soil …

Sewage sludge-derived biochar for the adsorptive removal of wastewater pollutants: A critical review

S Rangabhashiyam, PV dos Santos Lins… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The production of biochar from sewage sludge pyrolysis is a promising approach to
transform the waste resultant from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to a potential …

Potential hazards of biochar: The negative environmental impacts of biochar applications

L Xiang, S Liu, S Ye, H Yang, B Song, F Qin… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar has been widely used as an environmentally friendly material for soil improvement
and remediation, water pollution control, greenhouse gas emission reduction, and other …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the long-term effectiveness of biochar immobilization remediation on heavy metal contaminated soil and the potential environmental factors …

J Wang, L Shi, L Zhai, H Zhang, S Wang, J Zou… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, the research and application of biochar in the remediation of heavy metal
contaminated soil has become a hotspot, especially regarding the remediation of …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of pyrolysis temperature on biochar's characteristics and speciation and environmental risks of heavy metals in sewage sludge biochars

X Zhang, B Zhao, H Liu, Y Zhao, L Li - Environmental Technology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge pyrolysis into biochar is an effective way to realize sludge harmless and
resourceful utilization. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between pyrolysis …

Pretreatment, modification and applications of sewage sludge-derived biochar for resource recovery-A review

Y Xiao, A Raheem, L Ding, WH Chen, X Chen, F Wang… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
With the quick increase in industrialization and urbanization, a mass of sludge has been
produced on the account of increased wastewater treatment facilities. Sewage sludge (SS) …

Biochar in water and wastewater treatment-a sustainability assessment

M Kamali, L Appels, EE Kwon, TM Aminabhavi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Innovation of sustainable materials that are efficient, economic, environmentally friendly, and
socially acceptable for real-scale environmental applications is currently a trend in the …

Removal of methylene blue from aqueous solution by sewage sludge-derived biochar: Adsorption kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics and mechanism

S Fan, Y Wang, Z Wang, J Tang, J Tang, X Li - Journal of Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, biochar was produced from municipal sludge and was characterized by
Surface area and porosity analysis, Scanning Electron Microscope–Energy Dispersive …

Influence of pyrolysis temperature on properties and environmental safety of heavy metals in biochars derived from municipal sewage sludge

J Jin, Y Li, J Zhang, S Wu, Y Cao, P Liang… - Journal of hazardous …, 2016 - Elsevier
Dried raw sludge was pyrolyzed at temperatures ranging from 400 to 600° C at the increase
of 50° C intervals to investigate the influence of pyrolysis temperature on properties and …