B21A:
Biochar: A Biomass Product Sinking Greenhouse Gases and Remediating Water and Soil Posters

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Session ID#: 13934

Session Description:
  • There are many challenges for humanity like the dependency on fossil oil and the emission of greenhouse gases and the steadily increasing pollution of water and soil. Biomass can be used for the production of renewable energy sources and other valuable by-products. Biochar is currently applied as a soil amendment while it can be an effective tool for carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems and thus reducing the unavoidable greenhouse gases emissions. Biochar has special properties that make it as a good material for producing cost effective bio-filters for air, and remediation of soil and water. Characterization of biochar using the x-ray computed tomography and three-dimensional elemental imaging is necessary. This session seeks to bring together researcher in AGU Fall meeting to discuss recent update on the characteristics of biochar-derived biofiltration media and performance and economics of applying developed biochar filtration system for the remediation of air, water and soil. 
Primary Convener:  Abdelmoula Haboub, Lincoln University, Life and Physical Sciences, Lincoln, New Zealand
Conveners:  Hamed El-Mashad, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Omar Al-Qudah, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, College of Engineering, Kingsville, TX, United States
Chair:  Hamed El-Mashad, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Omar Al-Qudah, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, College of Engineering, Kingsville, TX, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1865 Soils [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Sorption of atrazine, acetochlor, and 2,4-D by hardwood-derived biochar (150999)
Javier M Gonzalez, USDA, ARS, National Soil Erosion Research Lab, West Lafayette, United States and Martin J Shipitalo, USDA, ARS, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, IA, United States
Evaluation of the performance of biochars as an adsorbent for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (154646)
Jihyeun Jung1, Seju Kang1, Yongsik Ok2 and Yongju Choi1, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
BIODEGRADATION OF PHENANTHRENE SORBED TO BIOCHARS (154672)
Seju Kang1, Yongju Choi1, Jihyeun Jung1 and Yongsik Ok2, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
The Impact of Biochar on Bioretention Nitrogen Removal and Hydrologic Performance (197357)
Jing Tian1, Jing Jin1, Pei Chiu1, Mingxin Guo2 and Paul Thomas Imhoff3, (1)University of Delaware, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States, (2)Delaware State University, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dover, DE, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States
Reducing Stormwater Runoff through Biochar Addition to Roadway Soils (198083)
Paul Thomas Imhoff1, Joseph Allan Brown2, Seyyed Ali Akbar Nakhli2, Sriya Panta2, Susan Yi3, Charles Hegberg4, Larry Trout5 and Jing Tian6, (1)University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States, (3)US Environmental Protection Agency Region 3, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (4)reGENESIS Consulting Services, LLC, Spring Grove, PA, United States, (5)Rummel Klepper & Kahl, Wilmington, DE, United States, (6)University of Delaware, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Newark, DE, United States
Application of Logistic Modeling to the Biochar Heterogeneity Conundrum (199145)
Li-Jung Kuo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Omar Richard Harvey, Texas Christian University, Geological Sciences, Fort Worth, TX, United States

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