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 …

Formation mechanisms and degradation methods of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in biochar: A review

C Yao, B Wang, J Zhang, M Faheem, Q Feng… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biochar has been widely used in soil amendment and environmental remediation. Polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) could be produced in preparation of biochar, which may …

Effect of willow biochar and fly ash-derived zeolite in immobilizing heavy metals and promoting enzymatic activity in a contaminated sandy soil

K Gondek, M Mierzwa-Hersztek, R Jarosz - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Great difficulties associated with the reclamation of contaminated soils make it necessary to
improve its methods and search for new, innovative technological solutions. Both biochars …

An emerging environmental concern: Biochar-induced dust emissions and their potentially toxic properties

DL Gelardi, C Li, SJ Parikh - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Amending soils with biochar is increasingly proposed as a solution to many pressing
agricultural and environmental challenges. Biochar, created by thermochemical conversion …

Review on effect of biochar on soil strength: Towards exploring usage of biochar in geo-engineering infrastructure

I Wani, V Kushvaha, A Garg, R Kumar, S Naik… - Biomass conversion and …, 2022 - Springer
Biochar is an environment friendly material that has been widely adopted in various fields,
such as agricultural, environmental and energy. On the contrary, the use of biochar in …

Magnetic biochar derived from biosolids via hydrothermal carbonization: Enzyme immobilization, immobilized-enzyme kinetics, environmental toxicity

H Zhang, AG Hay - Journal of hazardous materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Magnetic and nonmagnetic biochar (MBC & BC) were produced from biosolids under
hydrothermal conditions and characterized in order to understand surface chemistry impacts …

Chemical properties of the coffee grounds and poultry eggshells mixture in terms of soil improver

B Tombarkiewicz, J Antonkiewicz, MW Lis, K Pawlak… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Spent coffee grounds (SCG) as well as chicken (CES) or duck eggshells (DES) left over from
the artificial hatching technology are proposed as potential soil improver and/or organic …

Mitigation of CO2, CH4 and N2O from a fertigated horticultural growing medium amended with biochars and a compost

V Lévesque, P Rochette, N Ziadi, M Dorais… - Applied Soil Ecology, 2018 - Elsevier
Biochar effect on greenhouse gases mitigation was mainly studied in amended mineral soils
and little information is available for peat-based growing media (PBGMs) used in …

Direct and residual impacts of zeolite on the remediation of harmful elements in multiple contaminated soils using cabbage in rotation with corn

AH Lahori, M Mierzwa-Hersztek, E Demiraj, RU Sajjad… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, in-situ two pot trials were conducted to explore the direct and residual
influences of zeolite (ZL) on plant height, dry biomass and bioavailability of Pb, Cd, Cu, and …

Effect of the addition of biochar and coffee grounds on the biological properties and ecotoxicity of composts

M Kopeć, A Baran, M Mierzwa-Hersztek… - Waste and Biomass …, 2018 - Springer
Propose The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the composting process,
conducted with the addition of various substrates, on the biological and ecotoxic properties …