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- - Biomass can produce various valuable products, including biochar, which is beneficial for carbon storage, soil health, resource recovery, and water retention.
- - Microwave technology is highlighted for its superior performance in biomass pyrolysis, offering advantages like efficiency, speed, and selective production of biochar and biofuel compared to traditional methods.
- - The paper provides a comparison of microwave-assisted pyrolysis versus conventional techniques, discussing both the economic and environmental impacts of biochar production, and suggests areas for potential innovation in this field.
Article Abstract
In recent years, biomass has been reported to obtain a wide range of value-added products. Biochar can be obtained by heating biomass, which aids in carbon sinks, soil amendments, resource recovery, and water retention. Microwave technology stands out among various biomass heating technologies not only for its effectiveness in biomass pyrolysis for the production of biochar and biofuel but also for its speed, volumetrics, selectivity, and efficiency. The features of microwave-assisted biomass pyrolysis and biochar are briefly reviewed in this paper. An informative comparison has been drawn between microwave-assisted pyrolysis and conventional pyrolysis. It focuses mainly on technological and economic scenario of biochar production and environmental impacts of using biochar. This source of knowledge would aid in the exploration of new possibilities and scope for employing microwave-assisted pyrolysis technology to produce biochar.
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