Douglas County has officially begun construction of a biochar facility, with an investment of $3 million to transform organic ...

Slow pyrolysis has a slow heating rate and takes a long time, but it can produce biochar with high yield and good quality. Fast and flash pyrolysis focus more on the production of bio-oil.

Biochar has been shown to have several benefits for gardens and yards. First off, you might notice an increase in plant ...

Douglas County begins building its first county-level biochar facility in the U.S. to aid in sustainable waste management and ...

Qi Liu, Yanhui Zhang, Benjuan Liu, James E. Amonette, Zhibin Lin, Gang Liu, Per Ambus, Zubin Xie, How does biochar influence soil N cycle? A meta-analysis, Plant and Soil, Vol. 426, No. 1/2 (May 2018) ...

Southeast Asia is also playing a growing role, with Indonesia and Vietnam exporting activated wood charcoal for use in water ...

Hopes that Kern County almond byproducts will one day be converted into biochar — and with it, ... $9M pyrolysis plant in Delano would turn almond shells into biochar, energy.

But then, biochar can be used in many other ways. "As the Swiss Army knife of climate tools, it also does amazing environmental benefits such as growing more food, saving our trees," Doten said.

Hopes that Kern County almond byproducts will one day be converted into biochar — and with it, marketable energy and valuable carbon-removal credits — may finally be realized by a project ...