TY - JOUR
T1 - Use of biomass-derived biochar in wastewater treatment and power production
T2 - A promising solution for a sustainable environment
AU - Gupta, Meenal
AU - Savla, Nishit
AU - Pandit, Chetan
AU - Pandit, Soumya
AU - Gupta, Piyush Kumar
AU - Pant, Manu
AU - Khilari, Santimoy
AU - Kumar, Yogesh
AU - Agarwal, Daksh
AU - Nair, Remya R.
AU - Thomas, Dessy
AU - Thakur, Vijay Kumar
N1 - Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/6/15
Y1 - 2022/6/15
N2 - Over the past few years, we are witnessing the advent of a revolutionary bioengineering technology in biochar production and its application in waste treatment and an important component in power generation devices. Biochar is a solid product, highly rich in carbon, whose adsorption properties are ideal for wastewater decontamination. Due to its high specific surface area to volume ratio, it can be utilized for many environmental applications. It has diverse applications in various fields. This review focuses on its various applications in wastewater treatment to remove various pollutants such as heavy metals, dyes, organic compounds, and pesticides. This review also highlights several energy-based applications in batteries, supercapacitors, and microbial fuel cells. It described information about the different feedstock materials to produce LB-derived biochar, the various conditions for the production process, i.e., pyrolysis and the modification methods of biochar for improving properties required for wastewater treatment. The present review helps the readers understand the importance of biochar in wastewater treatment and its application in power generation in terms of batteries, supercapacitors, microbial fuel cells, applications in fuel production, pollutant and dye removal, particularly the latest development on using LB-derived biochar. This review also highlights the economic and environmental sustainability along with the commercialization of biochar plants. It also describes various pyrolytic reactors utilized for biochar production.
AB - Over the past few years, we are witnessing the advent of a revolutionary bioengineering technology in biochar production and its application in waste treatment and an important component in power generation devices. Biochar is a solid product, highly rich in carbon, whose adsorption properties are ideal for wastewater decontamination. Due to its high specific surface area to volume ratio, it can be utilized for many environmental applications. It has diverse applications in various fields. This review focuses on its various applications in wastewater treatment to remove various pollutants such as heavy metals, dyes, organic compounds, and pesticides. This review also highlights several energy-based applications in batteries, supercapacitors, and microbial fuel cells. It described information about the different feedstock materials to produce LB-derived biochar, the various conditions for the production process, i.e., pyrolysis and the modification methods of biochar for improving properties required for wastewater treatment. The present review helps the readers understand the importance of biochar in wastewater treatment and its application in power generation in terms of batteries, supercapacitors, microbial fuel cells, applications in fuel production, pollutant and dye removal, particularly the latest development on using LB-derived biochar. This review also highlights the economic and environmental sustainability along with the commercialization of biochar plants. It also describes various pyrolytic reactors utilized for biochar production.
KW - Adsorption
KW - Biochar
KW - Biochar activation
KW - Microbial fuel cell
KW - Pollutant removal
KW - Wastewater treatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85125240889&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153892
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153892
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35181360
AN - SCOPUS:85125240889
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 825
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
M1 - 153892
ER -