Characterization of Designer Biochar Produced at Different Temperatures and Their Effects on a Loamy Sand

by Jeffrey M Novak et al.

...biochar production process can be tailored to form designer biochars that have specific chemical characteristics matched to selective chemical and/or physical issues of a degrad-ed soil...Higher pyrolysis temperatures resulted in lower biochar mass recovery, greater surface areas, elevated pHs, higher ash contents, minimal total surface charge...higher percentages of carbon...

Impacts of Sixteen Different Biochars on Soil Greenhouse Gas Production

by Kurt A. Spokas and Donald C. Reicosky

...One potential abatement strategy to increasing atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide is to sequester atmospheric CO₂, captured through photosynthesis in biomass and pyrolysed into a more stable form of carbon called biochar. We evaluated the impacts of 16 different biochars from different pyrolysis/gasification processes and feed stock materials...

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