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Biochar for Cities and farms:
Pyrolysis:
Is a thermochemical dicomposition of organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence of oxygen or any halogen. It involves the simultaneous change of chemical composition and physical phase, and is irreversible. The word is coined from the Greek-derived elements pyro "fire" and lysis "separating".
Biomass:
Is a fuel that is developed from organic materials, a renewable and sustainable source of energy used to create electricity or other forms of power.
Carbon Sequestration:
Describes long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change. It has been purposed as a way to slow the atmospheric and marine accumulation of greenhouse gases, which are released by burning fossil fuels.
Hydrocarbons:
a compound of hydrogen and carbon, such as any of those that are the chief components of petroleum and natural gas.
Carbonization:
The conversion of an organic substance into carbon or a carbon-containing residue through pyrolysis or destructive distillation. It is often used in organic chemistry with reference to the generation of coal gas and coal tar from raw coal.
Don't get confussed charcoal or biochar ?
My only issue is that charcoal used for any application outside of agriculture should not be referred to as biochar. The English language already had words for carbonized material, so using the word biochar for non-agricultural applications confuses the fact that biochar is a charcoal specifically intended for agriculture, not industry. The word biochar should not be used as a catch-all word for any carbonized biomass. Charcoal = The catch all word for carbonized biomass. Covers a very wide range of qualities. May used as a fuel, for making activated carbon, as biochar when prepared properly, or any one of thousand different uses. Biochar a form of charcoal specially prepared to be “fed” to plants or animals. You should not feed just any grade of charcoal to plants and animals, if you do not want to make them sick. I enjoy taste testing of a fresh batch of biochar (with the exception of those made from manures. I should be able to put it in my mouth and chew on it. If I can’t do that then it is probably not suitable for plants or animals without additional processing. Activated carbon carbonized material, which might be from biomass, coal or petrochemicals, which has been prepared with a high surface area (typically more than 400 m2/gram). Sometimes activated carbon is used in agriculture, but most of the time it is used in industrial and household applications as an adsorbent. Some biochars have properties similar to a low grade activated carbon, however they should not be called biochar when used for industrial applications.
What can biochar be expected to do?
Sustainable biochar is a powerfull tool that can fight global warming. Biochar is a soil enhancer that holds carbon and toxins that makes soil more fertile by reducing agricultural waste; and producing clean and renewable energy. In some biochar systems all four objectives can be met, while in others a combination of two or more objectives will be obtained.
Biochar carbonization:
Carbonization is the process of converting a feedstock into biochar through reductive thermal processing. This process involves a combination of time, heat and pressure exposure factors that can vary between processors, equipment, and feedstocks. There are two main processes: pyrolysis or gasification. Energy products in the form of gas or oil are produced along with the biochar. These energy products may be recoverable for another use, or may simply be burned and released as heat. In addition, biochar can be made from a wide variety of biomass feedstocks. As a result, different biochar systems emerge on different scales. These systems may use production technologies that do or do not produce recoverable energy as well as biochar, and range from small household units to large bioenergy power plants.
Carbon farming:
If and when the planet heats enough, rain will cease soils and ecosystems will degrade and the carbon that is in the soil the biomass will be given off to the atmosphere and the global warming will occur. If just 3 degrees of temperature change happens the possibility of 40% or more of the worlds ecosystems will start to off-gas.
Off-gas:
A gas that is given off, especiallly one emitted as the byproduct of a chemical process.
Cations:
A positively charged ion, attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.
Bio-energy:
Renewable energy produced by living organisms.
Electrolysis:
Chemical decomposition produced by passing an electric current through a liquid or solution containing ions.
Terra preta cultures: (Inca culture vs some of today's cities)
Similar to cities of today the ancient Inca culture incinerated their garbage. What made their process unique and environmentally positive was char or charcoal was created by the natives instead of ash. Using relatively low heat and a oxygen deficient method created terra preta, or the most fertile soil known to mankind.This was then apparently used as a way of preventing infectious diseases. This was done by regularly adding char to feces and composted waste in the large jungle settlements. This was a sterilizing method for them. It helps to understand that the indigenous settlements were concentrated along the river banks on high bluffs safe from flooding. That is where the people lived, in densely populated villages similar to Machu Picchu and where most of the Terra Preta is found today.
Once the organic waste had been stabilized through composting or fermenting, it was added to the char. People discovered that it was an excellent substrate for growing food and other plants. These methods led to the char being loaded with nutrients and its surfaces achieving greater binding capability through oxidization, with the consequence that, once worked into the soil, the char was able to fully unfold its function as a nutrient storage and humus stabilizer.
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