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Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: a review.

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Due to complexity of soil-water system in nature, the effectiveness of biochars on remediation of various organic/inorganic contaminants is still uncertain.
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This article is published in Chemosphere.The article was published on 2014-03-01. It has received 3163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biochar & Slash-and-char.

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Microbe mediated arsenic release from iron minerals and arsenic methylation in rhizosphere controls arsenic fate in soil-rice system after straw incorporation.

TL;DR: A wealth of microorganisms in the soil environment that dominate As mobility and transformation after straw incorporation is revealed, and some guidance to straw incorporation in As contaminated paddy soil is provided.
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Lead and cadmium clean removal from wastewater by sustainable biochar derived from poplar saw dust

TL;DR: In this paper, the adsorption kinetics and isotherms of Pb2+/Cd2+ on biochar were determined, and the maximum adsoreption amount of P b2+ is 62.68% while that of Cd 2+ is 49.32% at pH 5 based on Langmuir equation.
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The effects of rice husk char on ammonium, nitrate and phosphate retention and leaching in loamy soil

TL;DR: In this paper, batch sorption experiments were carried out to determine the ability of biochar produced from rice husk to adsorb or release three major nutrient ions: ammonium (NH4+), nitrate (NO3−), and phosphate (PO43−).
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Conversion of sewage sludge into biochar: A potential resource in water and wastewater treatment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide insights into the production, modification and usage of sewage sludge (SS) derived biochar, including the production yield, characteristic features such as physical, chemical, electrochemical and morphological aspects, and impact on contaminant removal through adsorption, catalytic and electrochemical processes.
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Pyrolysis of Wood/Biomass for Bio-oil: A Critical Review

TL;DR: A review of the recent developments in the wood pyrolysis and reports the characteristics of the resulting bio-oils, which are the main products of fast wood pyrotechnics, can be found in this paper.
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Biochar effects on soil biota – A review

TL;DR: A review of the literature reveals a significant number of early studies on biochar-type materials as soil amendments either for managing pathogens, as inoculant carriers or for manipulative experiments to sorb signaling compounds or toxins as mentioned in this paper.
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Some aspects of the surface chemistry of carbon blacks and other carbons

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the surface chemistry of carbon blacks and other activated carbons is given, focusing on surface oxides with emphasis on the chemical methods used in the assessment and identification of surface functional groups.
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Ameliorating physical and chemical properties of highly weathered soils in the tropics with charcoal – a review

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the available information about the physical and chemical properties of charcoal as affected by different combustion procedures, and the effects of its application in agricultural fields on nutrient retention and crop production.
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Dynamic molecular structure of plant biomass-derived black carbon (biochar)

TL;DR: A molecular-level assessment of the physical organization and chemical complexity of biomass-derived chars and, specifically, that of aromatic carbon in char structures suggests the existence of four distinct categories of char consisting of a unique mixture of chemical phases and physical states.
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