Interaction of arsenic with biochar in soil and water: A critical review
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Biochar exhibits a great potential to act as a universally applicable material for water and soil remediation due to extensive availability of feedstocks and favorable physio-chemical surface characteristics; nevertheless, studies related to its application on the remediation of toxic metalloids are relatively rare. Hence, this review highlights biochar production technologies, biochar properties, and recent advances in the removal and immobilization of a major metalloid contaminant, As in water and soil. It also covers surface modification of biochars to enhance As removal and microbial properties in biochar amended soil. Experimental studies related to the adsorption behaviors of biochar and the underlying mechanisms proposed to explain them have been comprehensively reviewed. Compared to the number of research publications in SCOPUS database on “Biochar+Water” (≈1290 – Scopus), the attention drawn to examine the behavior of biochar on the remediation of As is limited (≈85 - Scopus). Because of the toxicity of As, the subject urgently needs more consideration. In addition to covering the topics listed above, this review identifies research gaps in the use of biochar as an adsorbent for As, and proposes potential areas for future application of biochars.
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Biochar can also be produced by other thermochemical processes, including hydrothermal carbonization, gasification, torrefaction, and microwave-assisted pyrolysis.
“However, recent studies have shown that biochar can also be produced by other thermochemical processes, e.g., hydrothermal carbonization, gasification, torrefaction, and microwave-assisted pyrolysis (Kambo and Dutta 2015;Vithanage et al. 2017;Yuan et al. 2017).”
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- Authors
- Vithanage, M., Herath, I., Joseph, S., Bundschuh, J., Bolan, N., Ok, Y. S., Kirkham, M. B., & Rinklebe, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern Queensland (AU)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
- Kangwon National University (KR)
- Kansas State University (US)
- University of Wuppertal (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Vithanage, Meththika
- Rinklebe, Jörg
- ORCID
- Venue
- Carbon
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-03
- Volume
- 113
- Pages
- 219-230
- ISSN
- 0008-6223 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2552763945
- Semantic Scholar
- 69338eac7a6b0a0248a34605d92706bab9c60781
- Cited by
- 373
- References
- 118
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 16
- FWCI
- 15.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Licence
- Locations
- Carbon (publishedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Arsenic contamination and mitigation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
- Keywords
- biochar, arsenic, arsenic removal, arsenic immobilization, adsorption mechanism, soil remediation, water remediation, metalloid contamination, biochar-amended soil
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