Mechanistic insights into biochar’s influence on nitrogen cycle homeostasis, microbial dynamics, and crop productivity in fertilized agroecosystems DOI
Paurabi Das,

Prosanta Saha

Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 411 - 442

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

Biochar-Soil-Plant interactions: A cross talk for sustainable agriculture under changing climate DOI Creative Commons

Ghulam Murtaza,

Zeeshan Ahmed, Sayed M. Eldin

et al.

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Feb. 14, 2023

Biochars provide several agricultural and environmental benefits, such as soil health improvement, better crop growth yield, carbon sequestration, decreasing greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, regulation of nutrient dynamics. This review highlights the role biochar in transforming soil’s physiochemical biological properties, their impact on improving seed germination seedling growth, altering physiological attributes, enhancing resistance against biotic abiotic stresses, productivity, curtailing GHGs, controlling leaching losses. However, type feedstock used, pyrolysis temperature, application rate method, species largely influence performance under different conditions. Application biochars at low rates help to promote growth. Biochar modified microbial processes rhizosphere increased mineralization enhanced availability for plant uptake. Hence, diseases, reduced heavy metals improved resilience stressors. By providing a comprehensive analysis about variable impacts physicochemical development productivity mitigating problems, this is quite valuable developing an efficient specific with desired functionalities. It could be helpful ensuring food security management environment. Furthermore, identifies knowledge gaps suggests future outlooks commercialization applications large-scale.

Language: Английский

Citations

75

Synthesis Methods, Properties, and Modifications of Biochar-Based Materials for Wastewater Treatment: A Review DOI Creative Commons

B. Sánchez Díaz,

Alicia E. Sommer-Márquez, Paola E. Ordóñez

et al.

Resources, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(1), P. 8 - 8

Published: Jan. 5, 2024

The global impact of water and soil contamination has become a serious issue that affects the world all living beings. In this sense, multiple treatment alternatives have been developed at different scales to improve quality. Among them, biochar suitable alternative for environmental remediation due its high efficiency low cost, raw material used production comes from residual biomass. A is carbonaceous with interesting physicochemical properties (e.g., surface area, porosity, functional groups), which can be prepared by synthesis methods using agricultural wastes (branches banana rachis, cocoa shells, cane bagasse, among others) as feedstock. This state-of-the-art review based on general description remediation. Biochar’s production, synthesis, uses also analyzed. addition, work shows some thus several applications, like removing heavy metals, oil, dyes, other toxic pollutants. Physical chemical modifications, precursors, dopants, promoting agents Fe N species) discussed. Finally, primary corresponding mechanism quality (via adsorption, heterogeneous photocatalysis, advanced oxidation processes) described, both laboratory medium large scales. Considering advantages, methods, promising potential mitigate problems improving quality, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, circular economy through biomass, generating value-added products uses.

Language: Английский

Citations

32

Unlocking the potential of biowaste: Sustainable strategies to produce valuable industrial products DOI Open Access
Faiza Rasheed, Waqas Khan Kayani, Muhammad Zubair Asghar

et al.

Journal of Environmental Quality, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 29, 2025

Abstract Global solid waste generation is expected to double by 2050 from the present annual level of 2.01 metric ton. Traditional biowaste treatment methods, such as landfilling and incineration, cannot meet need deal with gigantic amounts reduce environmental harm. This review critically evaluates existing sustainable management strategies highlighting their role in transitioning a “reuse recovery” paradigm. Sustainable refers conserving resources protecting human health, society, environment. In this context, examines current advancements potential trends using widely available novel applications produce key biofuels (such biogas biodiesel) corrosion inhibitors, asbestos‐free brake pads, nutrient‐rich functional foods, bio‐cement, bio‐based fertilizer, biodegradable plastic. Among these, biowaste‐to‐energy conversion (e.g., production) plastic synthesis emerge particularly impactful due scalability address both reduction resource recovery goals. The strategic utilization into products holds significant promise mitigating sustainability problems, offering renewable alternatives that are free harmful additives.

Language: Английский

Citations

2

Biochar Production: Recent Developments, Applications, and challenges DOI

Payam Danesh,

Parsa Niaparast,

Payam Ghorbannezhad

et al.

Fuel, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 337, P. 126889 - 126889

Published: Nov. 29, 2022

Language: Английский

Citations

56

Biochar as Soil Amendment: The Effect of Biochar on Soil Properties Using VIS-NIR Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, Biochar Aging and Soil Microbiology—A Review DOI Creative Commons
Vasileios Tsolis, Pantelis Barouchas

Land, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12(8), P. 1580 - 1580

Published: Aug. 10, 2023

This literature review explores the assessment of biochar quality and its impact on soil properties using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Biochar, a product biomass pyrolysis, is recognized for positive effects fertility carbon sequestration. emphasizes need systematic research stability highlights potential spectroscopy analyzing soil–biochar interactions. Biochar acts as conditioner, improving physical, chemical, biological enhancing crop yield. Furthermore, it aids in mitigating climate change by sequestering dioxide. However, long-term behavior interactions with various factors require further field optimal utilization, aging process complex, involving that influence agroecosystem. also importance studying interaction between microbes, plays crucial role plant resistance to pathogens. this limited. VIS-NIR valuable tool monitoring application soil. Nevertheless, controversial results highlight intricate biochar, soil, environmental conditions.

Language: Английский

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30

Use of biochar as a sustainable agronomic tool, its limitations and impact on environment: a review DOI Creative Commons

V. K. Upadhyay,

Krishna Kumar Choudhary, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal

et al.

Discover Agriculture, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2(1)

Published: May 28, 2024

Abstract Ensuring global food security under present and futuristic scenario of climate change accompanied by expanding population is major concern worldwide. Researchers across the world are focusing on sustainable agronomic practices to combat induced issues like desertification, reduction in crop yield, pest outbreaks, soil health. Biochar has demonstrated positive effects plant growth, development, fruit quality, carbon capture sequestration. Studies indicate that biochar amendments can enhance health, growth development as well help combating abiotic stressors. several properties make it an attractive amendment, including high porosity, surface area, water-holding capacity, ability increase microbiota, which turn promote nutrient uptake reduce erosion. Environmentally, biochar’s degrade organic pollutant sequester makes a very addition agriculture. Nonetheless, also been reported have potential hazardous impacts human health associated with possible leakage toxic elements particulate matter pollution. However, lack exhaustive studies detail all aspects application agroecosystem impedes decision making its overall usability There exists need for comprehensive review cover important supplementation. This provides thorough overview multifaceted biochar, encompassing soil, environment, while exploring limitations along application.

Language: Английский

Citations

11

Unlocking the potential of biochar in the remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals for sustainable agriculture DOI

Zubaira Maqbool,

Muhammad Shahbaz Farooq,

Anum Rafiq

et al.

Functional Plant Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 51(2)

Published: Feb. 4, 2024

Agricultural soils contaminated with heavy metals (HMs) impose a threat to the environmental and human health. Amendment biochar could be an eco-friendly cost-effective option decrease HMs in soil. This paper reviews application of as soil amendment immobilise We discuss technologies its preparation, their specific properties, effect on bioavailability HMs. Biochar stabilises soil, enhance overall quality significantly reduce HM uptake by plants, making it remediation for contamination. enhances physical (e.g. bulk density, structure, water holding capacity), chemical cation exchange capacity, pH, nutrient availability, ion exchange, complexes), biological properties microbial abundance, enzymatic activities) also fertility, improves plant growth, reduces availability Various field studies have shown that from while increasing crop yield. The review highlights positive effects reducing soils. Future work is recommended ensure biochars offer safe sustainable solution remediate

Language: Английский

Citations

9

The multifaceted power of biochar: A review on its role in pollution control, sustainable agriculture, and circular economy DOI Creative Commons
Amreen Bano, Mohd Kashif Aziz, Bablu Prasad

et al.

Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7, P. 286 - 304

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

Citations

1

Sustainable manufacture and application of biochar to improve soil properties and remediate soil contaminated with organic impurities: a systematic review DOI Creative Commons
Muhammad Rizwan,

Ghulam Murtaza,

Faisal Zulfiqar

et al.

Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Nov. 20, 2023

Biochar production and application have become increasingly popular in the past 15 years. Biochar, derived from diverse biomass types, offers a rich carbon source created through thermal combustion. primarily depends on pyrolysis conditions feedstock type. This review focuses multifaceted aspects of biochar, encompassing hydrothermal carbonization, gasification, temperatures biochar its role bioeconomy soil remediation. has yielded valuable insights, notably decreasing nutrient leaching, curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reducing bioavailability environmental pollutants, sequestering (C) soils, enhancing agricultural productivity. Consequently, it emerged as commodity for bioeconomy, which involves harnessing bioresources bioengineering to create economically products. As marketable output, finds energy, biochar-based product manufacturing, sector. Thus, not only enhances quality but also unlocks additional revenue streams. underscores critical selection optimizing production. Furthermore, highlights sustainable effective tool improving various types remediating contamination caused by organic impurities, including persistent compounds antibiotics.

Language: Английский

Citations

18

An interdisciplinary overview on biochar production engineering and its agronomic applications DOI
Faith Mawia Muema, Yohan Richardson, Amadou Keïta

et al.

Biomass and Bioenergy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 190, P. 107416 - 107416

Published: Oct. 5, 2024

Language: Английский

Citations

7