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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 145, Issue -, Pages 518-527Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.11.052
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Waste; Phosphate and ammonium adsorption; Biochar; Hydrochar
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- Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) Nigeria
- FERTIPLUS Consortium [289853]
- European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation, within the 7th Framework Programme of RTD, Theme 2 - Biotechnologies, Agriculture Food
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K503526/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The potential for biochar and hydrochar to adsorb phosphate and ammonium is important for understanding the influence of these materials when added to soils, compost or other high nutrient containing environments. The influence of physicochemical properties such as mineral content, surface functionality, pH and cation exchange capacity has been investigated for a range of biochars and hydrochars produced from waste-derived biomass feedstocks. Hydrochars produced from hydrothermal carbonisation at 250 degrees C have been compared to low and high temperature pyrolysis chars produced at 400 450 degrees C and 600-650 degrees C respectively for oak wood, presscake from anaerobic digestate (AD), treated municipal waste and greenhouse waste. In spite of differences in char physicochemical properties and processing conditions, PO4-P and NH4-N sorption capacities ranged from about 0 to 30 mg g(-1) and 105.8-146.4 mg g(-1) respectively. Chars with high surface areas did not possess better ammonium adsorption capacities than low surface area chars, which suggests that surface area is not the most important factor influencing char ammonium adsorption capacity, while char calcium and magnesium contents may influence phosphate adsorption. Desorption experiments only released a small fraction of adsorbed ammonium or phosphate (<5 mg g(-1) and a maximum of 8.5 mg g(-1) respectively). (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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