How Biochar Aids in Municipal Wastewater Remediation While well-known as a soil amendment, biochar also benefits the wastewater remediation process. Wastewater treatment involves removing contaminants from wastewater and recycling the water back to the environment for industrial use, irrigation, and even drinking and bathing. In this era of environmental awareness, conventional wastewater remediation is both energy-intensive and costly. Green technologies such as […]
Soil Remediation Soil remediation is the process of making contaminants non-bioavailable or removing contaminants such as pesticides, hydrocarbons, and heavy metals from soil. At Wakefield, we achieve soil remediation with our carbon-based biochars.
Municipal wastewater remediation using biochar An essential part of municipal wastewater plants is eliminating micropollutants in wastewater. This experiment, conducted at Swiss water plants, proved the effectiveness of powder-activated carbon (biochar) in absorbing and eliminating these harmful substances.
Biosolids and phosphate remediation with biochar University of Tennessee’s Center for Renewable Carbon set out to see how biosolids (sewage waste) could absorb excess of Phosphate. This easy-to-read presentation lays out their experiment and conclusions, showing that biosolid-based biochar is both environmentally friendly and cost effective in absorbing excesses of Phosphate.
Soil Remediation With Biochar A closer look at soil remediation with biochar and the two basic choices for managing contaminated soil.