Biochar for Environmental Remediation

Principles, Applications, and Prospects

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Biochar for Environmental Remediation: Principles, Applications, and Prospects synthesizes state-of-the-art knowledge on biochar-based systems for environmental remediation. This book examines a wide variety of biochar applications for the remediation of inorganic, organic, microbial, and emerging contaminants in various environmental media, including drinking water, industrial wastewater, urban stormwater, industrial and indoor air pollution, and contaminated lands and soils.

An increasing body of evidence shows that biochars have potential applications in environmental remediation of contaminants in soils, aqueous systems, and air pollution control. This book uses a systematic approach, covering biochar preparation, properties and characteristics, removal mechanisms, industrial applications, regeneration and disposal of spent biochar, life cycle analysis, and environmental and human health risks. Researchers, engineers, and graduate students will find this to be a valuable reference for understanding opportunities for the use of biochar in environmental remediation as it fills the gaps in existing literature and offers a clear roadmap to guide future research.

Addresses the whole biochar cycle from preparation, principles of application, industrial application domains, regeneration, recycling and final disposal, life cycle analysis, and environmental and human health risks
Covers a broad range of inorganic, organic, microbial, and emerging contaminants, providing a one-stop source of biochar information
Presents applications of biochar in the remediation of diverse environmental media, including drinking water, industrial, wastewater, urban stormwater, acid mine drainage, contaminated lands and soils, and industrial and indoor air pollution control

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-24
Mått:216 x 276 x 29 mm
Vikt:1 430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:532
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780323998895

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Mer om författaren

Dr. Willis Gwenzi is a Professor of biosystems and environmental engineering at the University of Zimbabwe. He researches on environmental remediation, environmental hydrology, water/wastewater treatment, emerging contaminants, antibiotic resistance, medical geology, environmental epidemiology, and novel (bio)materials. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles. His seminal papers on biochar-based water treatment systems and high-technology rare earth elements as emerging contaminants have been rated as Highly Cited and Hot papers in 2019 by the Web of Science. He has supervised several postgraduate students in bioenvironmental system engineering. He is a regular manuscript reviewer for top international journals. He has also acted as an external reviewer for grant proposals for the UK’s NERC, Canada’s MITACS, Chile’s FONDECYT, and the Austrian Science Foundation. He holds the following qualifications: PhD (biosystems and environmental engineering, University of Western Australia), MSc (water resources engineering and management), BSc honors (soil science), and postgraduate certificate (applied groundwater modeling).

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1Biochar technology: fundamental principles1. Biochar for environmental remediation at a glance: principles, applications, and prospects2. Feedstocks, preparation, and characteristics of pristine biochars3. Development of novel engineered/functionalized biochars4. Design, characterization, and evaluation of biochar: recent advances, applications, and future research directions5. Harnessing biochar for sustainable catalysis in environmental applicationsPart 2 Biochar for contaminated land remediation6. Biochar remediation of inorganic contaminants in soils7. Biochars for the remediation and repurposing of postmining landscapes and metalliferous substrates: applications and future perspectives8. Biochar remediation of conventional and emerging organic contaminants in soils9. Biochar for remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil, sediments, and sludgePart 3 Biochar for water and wastewater treatment10. Removal of contaminants in drinking water using biochars11. Biowaste-derived biochars for treatment of wastewater contaminated by dyes12. Removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in environmental matrices by biochars: mechanisms, fate, and research needs13. Application of biochar for the treatment of urban stormwater: processes and future directions14. Treatment of industrial and municipal wastewaters using biochar: performance, mechanisms, and research needsPart 4 Biochar sytems for clean and renewable energy15. Electrochemical properties of biochar for environmental applications: advances, challenges, and perspectives16. Biochar in bioelectrochemical systems: applications and future directions17. Thermochemical treatment of human excreta to energy and biochar: recent advances, applications, and future directionsPart 5 Biochar systems for air pollution control18. Clean and efficient biochar cookstoves for mitigation of indoor air pollution19. Biochars for the removal of toxic gaseous contaminants: state-of-the-art and future directionsPart 6 Assessment of biochar systems20. Regeneration, recycling, and disposal of spent biochars21. Life cycle assessment for biochar systems: a review22. Potential environmental and human health risks of biochar systems: a call for comprehensive health risk assessments23. Techno-economic assessment of biochar systems: state-of-the-art and future research directionsPart 7 Looking ahead: future perspectives and epilogue24. Biochar for environmental remediation and beyond: a “twin or multiple solutions” heuristic framework for uptake, adoption, and impact25. Moving ahead with biochar for environmental remediation and beyond: future research directions, roadmap, and epilogue