{"title":"Biochar-Assisted Wastewater Treatment and Waste Valorization","authors":"A. Bishnu, A. Pohkeral, A. Farooque","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.92288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92288","url":null,"abstract":"Biochar is the solid byproduct of pyrolysis, and its cascading use can offset the cost of the production and its use in application such as soil remediation. A wide variety of research on biochar has highlighted its ability to absorb nutrients, metal and complex compounds, filter suspended solids, enhance microorganisms’ growth, retain water and nutrients as well as increasing the carbon content of the soil. Besides, sustainable biochar systems are an attractive approach for carbon sequestration and total waste management cycle. The chapter looks into such cascading use of biochar in wastewater treatment for recovering nutrients and improving the efficiency of activated sludge treatment and anaerobic digestion for producing biosolid with enhanced soil amendment properties.","PeriodicalId":423830,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Biochar for Environmental Safety","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116027548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanism of In-Situ Catalytic Cracking of Biomass Tar over Biochar with Multiple Active Sites","authors":"D. Feng, Yu Zhang, Yijun Zhao, Shaozeng Sun","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.91380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91380","url":null,"abstract":"Biomass tar is the bottleneck in the development of efficient utilization of biomass syngas. The in-situ catalytic cracking biomass tar with multi-active biochar is investigated in a two-stage fluidized bed-fixed bed reactor. It indicates that adding H 2 O or CO 2 is found to improve the homogeneous and heterogeneous cracking of biomass tar. Activation of biochar by H 2 O or CO 2 impacted the morphology of biochar surface and distribution of metal species. H 2 O or CO 2 affects the creation and regeneration of pore structures, influencing the biochar structure and dynami-cal distribution of alkali and alkaline earth metal species (AAEMs), which ensure enough surface active sites to maintain the catalytic activity of biochar. The tar cracking into low-quality tar or small-molecule gas may be catalyzed by K, while the combination of tar with biochar would be promoted by Ca. The volatilizations of K and Ca, due to their reaction with volatiles, are to a large extent in accordance with their valences and boiling points. The subsequent transformation from the small aromatic ring systems to the larger ones occurs due to the volatile-biochar interaction. During tar cracking over biochar, K and Ca act as the active sites on biochar surface to promote the increase of active intermediates (C ▬ O bonds and C ▬ O ▬ K/Ca).","PeriodicalId":423830,"journal":{"name":"Applications of Biochar for Environmental Safety","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121689624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}