Biochar, Renewable Energy

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Biochar is a fine-grained, highly porous charcoal sub- stance that is distinguished from other charcoals in its intended use as a soil amendment. Biochar is charcoal that has been produced under conditions that optimize certain characteristics deemed useful in agriculture, such as high surface area per unit of volume and low amounts of residual resins. The particular heat treatment of or- ganic biomass used to produce biochar contributes to its large surface area and its characteristic ability ...

Bioenergy represents a unique opportunity for forestry companies to diversify the sources of income and create new stable business opportunities: a large number of initiatives has started in the last decades especially regarding decentralized power generation; nevertheless the conversion of the farmers to energy producers is not a trivial issue. The present work has focused on a possible alternative to biopower generation for forestry farms: the biomass carbonization (i.e. biomass slow pyrolysis...

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Biochar as a tool to reduce the agricultural greenhouse-gas burden – knowns, unknowns and future research needs