Recent advances in biochar engineering for soil contaminated with complex chemical mixtures: Remediation strategies and future perspectives

Biochar for soil remediation and land reclamation

Land reclamation generally relates to the improvement of soils degraded by human activities, for example construction and certain forms of agriculture. Soil remediation refers to the process of removing, neutralizing or reducing the toxicity of certain compounds, often left by human activities such as mining and industry. Each degraded and/or contaminated site is potentially unique in its chara...

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives

Chemical mixtures research: significance and future perspectives.

and Colorado State University. Thirty-one invited speeches and 22 poster presentations covered the following areas of technology in relation to chemical mixture research: cell and molecular methodologies, computer and statistical modeling, engineering and chemical technologies , and nanotechnology. Most of the highlights are captured in this monograph. This introduction, the opening commentary ...

Engineering design: perspectives, challenges and recent advances

This paper provides a review of papers published in the Journal of Engineering Design from 2007 to 2008. Included are the different perspectives on, key challenges existing within, and state-of-the-art technologies developed as solutions to current design issues. The intention of this paper is not to provide detailed coverage of all the papers published over the last two years, but rather to pr...

Polar Microbiology: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

Most of the Earth's biosphere is cold (85% is permanently exposed to temperatures below 5 °C), with 14% being polar. Polar regions are areas of the globe surrounding the poles. They are different in that the Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by continental landmasses and open oceans, whereas Antarctica is a frozen continent surrounded solely by oceans. The Arctic has numerous definitions; the...