Biochar & Carbon Sequestration

Soil carbon sequestration and biochar as negative emission technologies.

Despite 20 years of effort to curb emissions, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grew faster during the 2000s than in the 1990s, which presents a major challenge for meeting the international goal of limiting warming to <2 °C relative to the preindustrial era. Most recent scenarios from integrated assessment models require large-scale deployment of negative emissions technologies (NETs) to reach th...

Biochar: a synthesis of its agronomic impact beyond carbon sequestration.

Biochar has been heralded as an amendment to revitalize degraded soils, improve soil carbon sequestration, increase agronomic productivity, and enter into future carbon trading markets. However, scientific and economic technicalties may limit the ability of biochar to consistently deliver on these expectations. Past research has demonstrated that biochar is part of the black carbon continuum wi...

Fuzzy Optimal Design Model for Polygeneration Plant with Biochar Production for Carbon Sequestration

An efficient way for producing power, heat, and cooling while reducing CO2 emissions is through trigeneration. The emitted CO2 from trigeneration plant can be further reduced by producing biochar, which contributes negative carbon footprint to the system through sequestration of biomass carbon as char. This requires a gasification process to be added in the trigeneration system to produce bioch...

Carbon Sequestration

Carbon Capturing and Sequestration