Aqueous leaching of organic acids and dissolved organic carbon from various biochars prepared at different temperatures

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 684-695

  Liu, Peng ^a   Ptacek, Carol J ^a   Blowes, David W ^a   Berti, William R ^b   Landis, Richard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; ALKALINITY; CARBON; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FEEDSTOCKS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HEAVY METALS; LEACHING; ORGANIC ACIDS; PH; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; WATER TREATMENT; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC C; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; METAL COMPLEXATION; PYROLYSIS TEMPERATURE; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ALIPHATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CHARCOAL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HYDROXYL GROUP; ORGANIC CARBON; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ALKALINITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LEACHING; LOW TEMPERATURE; MANURE; PH; PYROLYSIS; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID; TEMPERATURE; WOOD;

EID: 84925454998     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2014.08.0341     Document Type: Article

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