Engineered Biochar

Pristine biochar and engineered biochar.- Waste to wealth: types of raw materials for preparation of biochar and their characteristics.- Biochar preparation by different thermo-chemical conversion processes.- Physical treatment for biochar modification.- Chemical treatment for biochar modification.- Biological treatment for biochar modification.- New trends in pyrolysis methods.- Characterization of engineered biochar.- Engineered biochar in electrochemistry: fuel cells and batteries.- Engineered biochar as adsorbent for removal of heavy metals from aqueous and soil medium.- Engineered biochar as adsorbent for removal of emerging contaminants from aqueous and soil medium.- Engineered biochar as soil fertilizer.- Engineered biochar as growing media component.- Engineered biochar as sink for soil carbon sequestration.- Engineered biochar as gas adsorbent.- Engineered biochar as host for soil microbiota.- Engineered biochar as supercapacitors.- Engineered biochar as catalyst.- Engineered biochar as construction material.- Engineered biochar as feed supplement and other husbandry applications.

Dr. Sudipta Ramola is working at College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, in association with Zhejiang Academy of Agriculture Science, China. Prior moving to China, she has completed her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. She has research experience on biochar preparation and its applications for environmental remediation. Currently, she is working on development of modified biochar-clay mineral composite for their applications in wastewater and soil remediation, and has also received a 'Young Scientist' award for her outstanding research work. She has teaching experience of more than 3 years at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has published a number of peer-reviewed scientific research articles in various journals of high rank. Further, she has research interests in engineered biochar and its advanced applications, nanotechnology, process development and optimization, and large-scale applications of biochar.






Dinesh Mohan is a full professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is an Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), London and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS). He is also an adjunct professor at Chemistry Department, Mississippi State University, USA. He is a visiting professor at faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic. He was an adjunct professor at International Centre for Applied Climate Science University of Southern, Queensland, Australia. He has completed his Master and Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR). Prof. Mohan also worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Penn State University (1997) for 2 years and Mississippi State University (2005) for more than two years. For the last more than 26 years, he is involved in various research activities including