Biochar for Environmental Remediation

Principles, Applications, and Prospects
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-323-99889-5
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 1430 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gwenzi, Willis

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1Biochar technology: fundamental principles
1. Biochar for environmental remediation at a glance: principles, applications, and prospects
2. Feedstocks, preparation, and characteristics of pristine biochars
3. Development of novel engineered/functionalized biochars
4. Design, characterization, and evaluation of biochar: recent advances, applications, and future research directions
5. Harnessing biochar for sustainable catalysis in environmental applications
Part 2 Biochar for contaminated land remediation
6. Biochar remediation of inorganic contaminants in soils
7. Biochars for the remediation and repurposing of postmining landscapes and metalliferous substrates: applications and future perspectives
8. Biochar remediation of conventional and emerging organic contaminants in soils
9. Biochar for remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil, sediments, and sludge
Part 3 Biochar for water and wastewater treatment
10. Removal of contaminants in drinking water using biochars
11. Biowaste-derived biochars for treatment of wastewater contaminated by dyes
12. Removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in environmental matrices by biochars: mechanisms, fate, and research needs
13. Application of biochar for the treatment of urban stormwater: processes and future directions
14. Treatment of industrial and municipal wastewaters using biochar: performance, mechanisms, and research needs
Part 4 Biochar sytems for clean and renewable energy
15. Electrochemical properties of biochar for environmental applications: advances, challenges, and perspectives
16. Biochar in bioelectrochemical systems: applications and future directions
17. Thermochemical treatment of human excreta to energy and biochar: recent advances, applications, and future directions
Part 5 Biochar systems for air pollution control
18. Clean and efficient biochar cookstoves for mitigation of indoor air pollution
19. Biochars for the removal of toxic gaseous contaminants: state-of-the-art and future directions
Part 6 Assessment of biochar systems
20. Regeneration, recycling, and disposal of spent biochars
21. Life cycle assessment for biochar systems: a review
22. Potential environmental and human health risks of biochar systems: a call for comprehensive health risk assessments
23. Techno-economic assessment of biochar systems: state-of-the-art and future research directions
Part 7 Looking ahead: future perspectives and epilogue
24. Biochar for environmental remediation and beyond: a “twin or multiple solutions” heuristic framework for uptake, adoption, and impact
25. Moving ahead with biochar for environmental remediation and beyond: future research directions, roadmap, and epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Gwenzi, Willis
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).