Multi-methodological characterisation of Costa Rican biochars from small-scale retort and top-lit updraft stoves and inter-methodological comparison

Multi-methodological characterisation of Costa Rican biochars from small-scale retort and top-lit updraft stoves and inter-methodological comparison

We applied common (pH, elemental analysis, thermogravimetry) and less-common (infrared spectroscopy, GACS adsorption test, pyrolysis-GC-MS, hydrogen pyrolysis) analytical procedures to a set of biochars from Costa Rica (bamboo stalk, cacao chaff, sawmill scrap, coconut husk and orchard prunings feed...

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Main Authors: Joeri Kaal, Roberto Calvelo, Art Donnelly, Anna McBeath, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Hugh McLaughlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kassel University Press 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics
Subjects:
biochar
characterisation
Costa Rica
rural communities 1 Introduction Biochar is thermally modified biomass
such as charcoal obtained from urban
industrial
agricultural or forestry residues
rural communities
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