Acceleration of Biochar Surface Oxidation during Composting?

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 3830-3837

  Wiedner, Katja ^a   Fischer, Daniel ^a   Walther, Sabine ^a   Criscuoli, Irene ^b   Favilli, Filippo ^c   Nelle, Oliver ^d   Glaser, Bruno ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^d Dendrochronologisches Labor Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart   (Germany)

Author keywords

biochar; composting; fourier transformation infrared microscopy; scanning electron microscopy; surface functional groups; surface oxidation; Terra Preta

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHARCOAL; COMPOSTING; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

BIO CHARS; INFRARED MICROSCOPY; SURFACE FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; SURFACE OXIDATIONS; TERRA PRETA;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

BIOCHAR; CHARCOAL; SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CHARCOAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84928128346     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b00846     Document Type: Article

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