AMES, Iowa – Heat up stalks, stems, leaves or wood in a reactor with little or no oxygen (in a process called pyrolysis) and you get bio-oil for fuel and biochar for fertilizer. There’s always a ...

Biochar can help turn agricultural waste into clean hydrogen fuel while cutting carbon pollution, according to a new study in ...

Biochar is a carbon-rich material that is made from biomass through a thermochemical conversion process known as pyrolysis. Don’t worry if that all sounds like a mouthful—read on for an introduction ...

Biochar is a “charcoal-like substance that’s made by burning organic material from agricultural and forestry wastes (also called biomass) in a controlled process called pyrolysis,” according to ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Biochar is produced by burning biomass in the absence of oxygen. It is a charcoal-like substance that farmers have used ...

At Laragon Almonds in north-western Victoria, the processing plant is dwarfed by the piles of leftovers that sit alongside it. The hulls and shells are normally sold as livestock feed, but with the ...

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A research team unveils a microwave-assisted, two-step activation strategy that converts corn straw into a hierarchically porous biochar capable of efficiently capturing CO₂.