Gasification biochar as a valuable by-product for carbon sequestration and soil amendment

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 72, Issue , 2015, Pages 300-308

  Hansen, Veronika ^a   Müller Stöver, Dorette ^a   Ahrenfeldt, Jesper ^a   Holm, Jens Kai ^b   Henriksen, Ulrik Birk ^a   Hauggaard Nielsen, Henrik ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Chemical Engineering   (Denmark)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biochar soil amendment; Bioenergy efficiency; Carbon sequestration; Gasification; Soil quality improvement

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BED PROCESS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GASIFICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; WOOD FUELS;

BIO-ENERGY; BIOENERGY PRODUCTIONS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED GASIFIER; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL QUALITY PARAMETERS;

SOILS;

BIOENERGY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PH; POROSITY; POWER GENERATION; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84921535835     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: 1873-2909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.10.013     Document Type: Article

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