Sustainable Development and Application of Biochar: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 311
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioenergy; circular economy; extraction of value-added product; biorefinery; thermochemical process; kinetics; exergy analysis; biomaterials; industrial ecology; production of platform molecules; municipal solid waste thermal treatments; cuttings from the oil extraction industry
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2. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería de Procesos, Biotecnología y Energías Alternativas, PROBIEN, CONICET-UNCo, Neuquén Q8300, Argentina
Interests: sustainable chemical and energetic valorization of biowastes; municipal solid waste thermal treatments; cuttings from the oil extraction industry; heterogeneous reactors for clean processes; fluidization engineering; modeling; simulation of fluidized beds
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2. Instituto de Biotecnología, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan C.P. 5400, Argentina
Interests: circular economy; extraction of value-added products; biorefinery; drying; biomaterials; biomimetics synthesis; production of platform molecules
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biochar is a product that is obtained from the thermochemical transformation of biomass, particularly from bio-waste, which is used in agriculture as an amendment and substrate in soil-less crops. This material is used for obtaining energy, gas cleaning, and wastewater treatment, among other functions. Due to the fact that biochar can be obtained from bio-waste, as well as its innumerable uses to enhance the quality of the environment, it is important to summarize the new advances in this field, since its use contributes to the circular economy, improving the sustainability of production processes.
This Special Issue covers original articles from researchers across the globe, based on the following three aspects: sustainable processes for obtaining biochar, its different applications, and emerging technologies for the use of biochar. We welcome articles in the following areas (but you are not limited to these):
- Different processes for obtaining biochar.
- Using biochar to capture greenhouse gases.
- Biochar as an amendment soil and substrate of soil-less crops.
- Biochar as an energy vector.
- Use of biochar for wastewater treatment.
- Soil decontamination.
- Biochar use for gas cleaning.
- Biochar as an additive to composite materials.
- Emerging technologies for the use of biochar.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Rosa Rodriguez
Prof. Dr. Germán Mazza
Dr. María Paula Fabani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biochar
- sustainable
- emerging technologies
- agriculture applications
- energy vector
- wastewater treatment
- gas cleaning
- soil decontamination
- composite materials
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