Waste-derived biochar for water pollution control and sustainable development

M He, Z Xu, D Hou, B Gao, X Cao, YS Ok… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Biochar, a carbon-rich material made from the partial combustion of biomass wastes, is an
emerging material of interest as it can remediate pollutants and serve as a negative carbon …

Biochar technology in wastewater treatment: A critical review

W **ang, X Zhang, J Chen, W Zou, F He, X Hu… - Chemosphere, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Biochar is a promising agent for wastewater treatment, soil remediation, and gas storage
and separation. This review summarizes recent research development on biochar …

Utilization of biochar for resource recovery from water: A review

H Yang, S Ye, Z Zeng, G Zeng, X Tan, R **ao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, the shortage of water resource has prompted a shift in human
concept about waste water: from waste to valuable resource. Utilizing wastewater can not …

Application of biochar as an innovative substrate in constructed wetlands/biofilters for wastewater treatment: Performance and ecological benefits

S Deng, J Chang - Emerging Developments in Constructed Wetlands, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are well recognized as a cost-effective and environmentally
friendly eco-technology for contaminated water remediation, especially in decentralized …

Biochar-based water treatment systems as a potential low-cost and sustainable technology for clean water provision

W Gwenzi, N Chaukura, C Noubactep… - Journal of environmental …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Approximately 600 million people lack access to safe drinking water, hence achieving
Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Ensure availability and sustainable management of water …

Occurrence of contaminants in drinking water sources and the potential of biochar for water quality improvement: A review

KN Palansooriya, Y Yang, YF Tsang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this work, the occurrence of contaminants in drinking water sources was described in
relation to their treatment options based on both conventional (eg, coagulation-flocculation …

Addition of biochar as thin preamble layer into sand filtration columns could improve the microplastics removal from water

L Hsieh, L He, M Zhang, W Lv, K Yang, M Tong - Water Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The release of microplastics (MPs) especially those with sizes less than 10 μm from effluent
of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is one of the major sources of plastics into aquatic …

Application of biochar-based materials in environmental remediation: from multi-level structures to specific devices

L Lu, W Yu, Y Wang, K Zhang, X Zhu, Y Zhang, Y Wu… - Biochar, 2020‏ - Springer
The development of biochar has triggered a hot-spot in various research fields including
agriculture, energy, environment, and materials. Biochar-based materials provide a novel …

Recent advances in biochar application for water and wastewater treatment: a review

X Wang, Z Guo, Z Hu, J Zhang - PeerJ, 2020‏ - peerj.com
In the past decade, researchers have carried out a massive amount of research on the
application of biochar for contaminants removal from aqueous solutions. As an emerging …

Plenty of room for carbon on the ground: Potential applications of biochar for stormwater treatment

SK Mohanty, R Valenca, AW Berger, KM Iris… - Science of the total …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Low impact development (LID) systems are increasingly used to manage stormwater, but
they have limited capacity to treat stormwater—a resource to supplement existing water …