by Cecilia Sundberg | Apr 5, 2022 | Projects
The aim of Residues to Best Use (Swedish: Rest till Bäst) is to develop solutions for managing society’s organic residues (park and garden waste, agro-biopellets, sludge, algae and seaweed) and create a beneficial product (biochar), while at the same time minimising...
by Giulia Ravenni | Dec 23, 2021 | Projects, Research
FlowChar (Flow electrodes from biomass-derived char) is the research project currently realised at the Silesian University of Technology with funding from the Norway Grants 2014-2021. The idea behind FlowChar is to combine two processes: Renewable heat and power...
by Cecilia Sundberg | Feb 23, 2021 | Projects, Publications, Research
Higher crop yields, less fuel use, less pollution from cooking and reduced climate impacts – can smallholder farmers in Kenya achieve all these benefits at the same time? By producing biochar in gasifier cookstoves and using it in agriculture, this is theoretically...
by Tobias Pape Thomsen | Jun 21, 2020 | Projects, Research
This project is carried out by Danish partners and sees the collaboration between two of the main universities in the country, Aarhus University (AU) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), as well as the participation of two private companies. Background The...
by Tobias Pape Thomsen | Jun 20, 2020 | Projects, Research
The Greater Bio project is co-funded by Interreg and the aim is development of new knowledge and methods to increase the value and utility from biobased products and services in Southern Sweden and Eastern Denmark through cooperation in the metropolitan region Greater...
by Tian Li | Jun 19, 2020 | Projects, Research
This project, BioCarbUp – Optimising the biocarbon value chain for sustainable mettalurgical industry, is a large Norwegian project focussing on biochar as a replacement for fossil carbon carriers in the metallurgical industry. The project is a continuation of...
by Kathrin Weber | Jun 16, 2020 | Projects, Research
This is one of the projects that have actively supported the initiation of the Nordic Biochar Network. It is still ongoing and as an international project with a focus on the use of biochar as soil amendment, fits well to the objectives of the network. Background In...
by Elias Azzi | Jun 11, 2020 | Publications, Research
At KTH/SEED, we are running a 4-year biochar research project funded by Vinnova (https://www.biochar.abe.kth.se/). The first case study of this project was set in Stockholm and investigated whether or not it was worth investing in large scale biochar production from a...
by Elias Azzi | Jun 11, 2020 | Projects, Research
At KTH/SEED, we are running a 4-year biochar research project funded by Vinnova (https://www.biochar.abe.kth.se/). The third case study of this project is about biochar applications in urban environments. Our aim is to estimate the potential demand for biochar in...
by Elias Azzi | Jun 11, 2020 | Events, Network
In October 2019, we organised the 1st Nordic Biochar Conference at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. We are glad there were so many interactions between researchers and practitioners. We realised that, indeed, there is a large and rapidly growing...
