Register now for the 2022 North American Biochar & Bioenergy Conference to be held August 8-11 at the Morgantown Marriott in West Virginia.

The Conference will focus on bridging scientific, industrial, practitioner, and policy gaps in biomass utilization for biochar and bioenergy production.

The meeting will draw attention to biochar and bioenergy science, technology, and sustainability issues at local-to-global scales.

The plenary speaker for the Conference is Benjamin “Benji” Baker, founder and president of the American Conservation Coalition, the largest market-based youth environmental organization.

The US Biochar Initiative promotes the sustainable production and use of biochar and has hosted the pre-eminent North American biochar conference since 2009.

Biochar is a solid, carbon-rich material produced via the high-temperature, low-oxygen processing of wood scraps, manures, poultry litter, and other low-value biomass feedstocks.

While closely related to charcoal and activated carbon, the term ‘biochar’ is reserved for material intentionally produced for use as a soil amendment for agriculture or environmental remediation.

It has demonstrated value for increasing soil carbon content; modulating soil hydraulic properties, pH, and cation exchange capacity; reducing nutrient losses through runoff and nitrous oxide emissions, and absorbing a wide variety of environmental contaminants.

Biochar chemical and physical properties vary widely depending upon its source material and processing, however, and thus there are large R&D efforts within academia and industry to engineer better-performing and more sustainable chars.

To register and for more information, visit the North American Biochar & Bioenergy Conference website.

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[Posted: June 9, 2022]

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