UK Biochar 2011: Posters

Dr Saran Sohi

saran.sohi@ed.ac.uk

www.biochar.org.uk

University of EdinburghThe King’s Buildings, 25th May 2011

Poster sessions

• Today 1.30–2.30pm and same time tomorrow…

• Trends

– last year at Rothamsted ~10 posters

– This year >73 abstracts received including 39 submitted for poster presentation

– 48 poster abstracts in printed book (plus a few missing – see Mike Duvall – downloadable PDF coming soon)

• Themes

– Posters in abstract book are numbered and ordered by theme; display ordered by poster number from hallway and through foyer

Poster themes & origin

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1. Deployment 2. Systems 3. Soil function 4. Production

& char

5. Linking 3+4

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Deployment and commercialisation (3)

• This morning’s session

• Scale and technology

– Scaled pyrolysis based on rotary drum[1] Scova et al.; Pyrolysis and heat transfer: A pragmatic engineering approach

– Cook stoves[2] Shackley et al.; Where there’s muck, there’s brass: The economics of biochar

Systems and context (11 posters)

• This afternoon’s session

• Scale and technology

– Gas/liquid fuel systems based on crop waste and potential feedstock[9] Pan et al.; Developing Biochar Engineering Technology for Low Carbon Agriculture in China

– Cook stoves proposition[10] Shackley & Carter; Too many cooks spoil the broth? Biochar and cook stoves

Soil function (20 posters)

• Crop yield in the field (18, 26)

• Nutrient source & pH

– 47 (Angst & Sohi), 29 (Fornasier et al.)

• Interactions with soil nitrogen

– 17 (Prendergast-Miller & Sohi), Dempster et al. (22)

– Maia & Sohi (18), Ulyett et al. (23), Sakrabani et al. (32), Zavalloni et al. (33)

• Partitioning of carbon sources and fate– 19 (Ventura et al.), 35 (Tominaga et al.)

• Non-CO2 greenhouse gases 18 (Liu et al.)

• Soil physical properties– Devereux & Mooney (16), Ventura et al. (28)

• Land Remediation

• Biodiversity – or microbial indicators– Ameloot et al. (24), Ralebitso-Senior (25),

McCormack (49), McCosh et al. (31)

• David Manning’s session (Thu AM)

Characterisation (4 posters)

• Biological stability (39)

• Spectroscopic approaches (36, 37 & 39)

• Physical assessment (41)

• Ondrej Masek’s session (Thu AM)

Linking function & character (4 posters)

• Bio-assays (42, 43, 46)

• Organic contaminants (source & impact) (44)

• Thu PM session

Acknowledgements

Mike DuvallClare Peters

Rebecca RoweAndrew Cross