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Andreas Aicher: Using biochar for the purification of gray water in a green facade module

Biochar offers versatile applications, however, one niche is still in the early stages. Biochar’s many positive physical properties can be applied in waste water management […]

Elena Vorrath: Doping? Yes, please! How enhanced weathering boosts PyCCS to the next level

A combination of enhanced weathering with PyCCS but also the co-pyrolysis of rock powder and biomass (“mineral-doping”) are assumed to provide several synergies on CDR […]

Gerald Dunst: It’s all carbon – stabilization of organics with no exception

Gerald Dunst is the owner of the company Sonnenerde and has been operating a pyrolysis plant since 2012. Over the years he has been experimenting […]

Robert Brown: Carbon Removal with Corn Stover

Dr. Brown is Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). He is […]

Christoph Gareis: The Helsinki Sludge Char Project

Looking for an advanced and sustainable treatment for sewage sludge, pyrolysis has been identified as the best method. Running a pilot plant over the course […]

Nadav Ziv: ‘CompoChar’ – The new black soilless growing media is even better than the peat thing

Most soilless substrates are natural nonrenewable resources which involve environmental damage. The CompoCharTM is a biochar growing substrate, made locally from wood wastes and composted […]

Gerhard Soja: Bonechar from slaughterhouse residue – nutrient recycling from problematic substances

This case study shows how solid and liquid slaughterhouse residue can be turned into a fertilizer applicable in agriculture by combining pyrolysis and anaerobic fermentation, […]

Producing biochar from rice husks, turning a waste stream into a climate change mitigation solution

Biochar production from rice husks presents an opportunity to put a circular economy solution in place, improve soil health and farm productivity, significantly decrease methane […]

Pål Jahre Nilsen | VOW Biocarbon from waste – Applying Microwaves, direct electric heating or syngas

VOW Asa provides pyrolysis technologies for decarbonizing the industry. The consortium operates several test/pilot facilities and participates in numerous R&D projects. New data on biocarbon […]

Klaudia Kammann: Biochar as the underdog of NETs: the state of research and visions of the future

By now the public at large is starting to appreciate more and more that in order to meet our two-degree climate goals we not only […]

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