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Biochar for Environmental Remediation
Principles, Applications, and Prospects
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2025
- Editor: Willis Gwenzi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 8 8 9 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 9 4 8 - 9
Biochar for Environmental Remediation: Principles, Applications, and Prospects synthesizes state-of-the-art knowledge on biochar-based systems for environmental remediati… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBiochar for Environmental Remediation: Principles, Applications, and Prospects synthesizes state-of-the-art knowledge on biochar-based systems for environmental remediation. The 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. 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.
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, lifecycle analysis and environmental and human health risks.
- Addresses the whole biochar cycle from preparation, principles of application, industrial application domains, regeneration, recycling and final disposal, lifecycle 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, industrial and indoor air pollution control
SECTION 1: THE BIOCHAR SYSTEM (FEEDSTOCKS, PREPARATION, AND PROPERTIES
1. Introduction
2. Preparation and characteristics of pristine biochars
3. Development of novel engineered/functionalized biochars
4. Biochar catalysis for environmental remediation
SECTION 2: BIOCHAR FOR CONTAMINATED LAND REMEDIA-TION
5. Remediation of inorganic contaminants in soils
6. Rehabilitation of mined lands and geologically enriched soils
7. Remediation of conventional and emerging organic contaminants in soils
SECTION 3: BIOCHAR FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT
8. Treatment of Urban stormwater
9. Industrial and municipal wastewaters
10. Biochar as filter media in bioretention and constructed wetland systems
SECTION 4: BIOCHARS FOR DRINKING WATER TREATMENT
11. Removal of contaminants in drinking water
12. Design and operation of single and multi-barrier biochar filters
13. Industrial flue gas emissions
14. Clean and efficient biochar cookstoves for mitigation of indoor air pollution
15. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions: A state-of-the-art
SECTION 6: TECHNO-ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF BIOCHAR SYSTEMS
16. Technical feasibility of biochar systems
17. Regeneration, recycling and disposal of spent biochars
18. Socio-economic evaluation of biochar systems
SECTION 7: HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF BIOCHAR SYS-TEMS
19. Life cycle assessment for biochar systems
20. Environmental and human health risks of biochar systems
SECTION 8: LOOKING AHEAD: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
21. Future research directions
22. Conclusions
- No. of pages: 450
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323998895
- eBook ISBN: 9780323999489
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Willis Gwenzi
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 over 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 Web of Science. He has supervised several postgraduate students in bio-environmental system engineering. He is regular manuscript reviewer for top international journals. He has also acted as an external reviewer for grant proposals for UK’s NERC, Canada’s MITACS, Chile’s FONDECYT, and the Austrian Science Foundation. Willis holds the following qualifications: PhD (Biosystems and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Australia), M.Sc. (Water Resources Engineering and Management), B. Sc. Honours (Soil Science), and Postgraduate Certificate (Applied Groundwater Modelling).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Lead Researcher, Biosystems and Environmental Engineering Research Group, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe