Advances, trends and challenges in the use of biochar as an improvement strategy in the anaerobic digestion of organic waste

A recently strategy applied to anaerobic digestion (AD) is the use of biochar (BC) obtained from the pyrolysis of different organic waste. The PRISMA protocol-based review of the most recent literature data from 2011-2022 was used in this study. The review focuses on research papers from Scopus® and...

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Autores: Parra, Brayan|||0000-0001-9256-6797, Soto, Jonathan|||0000-0002-9211-6435, Oviedo-Ocaña, Edgar Ricardo|||0000-0002-8970-7322, Vali, Seyed Alireza|||0000-0002-0124-9321, Sánchez, Antoni|||0000-0003-4254-8528
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:309150
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/309150
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/21655979.2023.2252191
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Biochar
Bibliometrix
Anaerobic digestion
Methane
Organic waste
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Resumo:A recently strategy applied to anaerobic digestion (AD) is the use of biochar (BC) obtained from the pyrolysis of different organic waste. The PRISMA protocol-based review of the most recent literature data from 2011-2022 was used in this study. The review focuses on research papers from Scopus® and Web of Knowledge®. The review protocol used permits to identify 169 articles. The review indicated a need for further research in the following challenges on the application of BC in AD: i) to increase the use of BC in developing countries, which produce large and diverse amounts of waste that are the source of production of this additive; ii) to determine the effect of BC on the AD of organic waste under psychrophilic conditions; iii) to apply tools of machine learning or robust models that allow the process optimization; iv) to perform studies that include life cycle and technical-economic analysis that allow identifying the potential of applying BC in AD in large-scale systems; v) to study the effects of BC on the agronomic characteristics of the digestate once it is applied to the soil and vi) finally, it is necessary to deepen in the effect of BC on the dynamics of nitrogen and microbial consortia that affect AD, considering the type of BC used. In the future, it is necessary to search for new solutions in terms of the transport phenomena that occurs in AD with the use of BC using robust and precise mathematical models at full-scale conditions.