Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy - Call for papers: Novel biochar production and application

Climate change poses severe threats to the earth's ecosystems and the largest driver of global warming is excessive anthropogenic CO₂ emissions. Many countries set up ambitious goals of carbon neutrality to alleviate global warming. Efficient carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies should be developed and applied. The application of biochar is a safe and promising solution to foster carbon neutrality, as biochar could trap CO₂ permanently. Biochar can be produced from pyrolysis of a wide range of waste biomass (e.g., rice straw, wood waste, food waste, sludge, and manure) under limited availability of oxygen, after which carbon can be stabilized and stored. In recent years, the biochar production method developed rapidly and biochar has been used for emerging applications. Therefore, we plan to organize a Special Issue that covers original research and review articles on the state-of-the-art of biochar production and application.

Potential topics may include but not limited the following: