In about 500 B.C., indigenous people in the Amazon began using pyrogenic carbon to increase soil fertility in nutrient-poor jungle soils. Pyrogenic carbon is the material produced by burning biomass — ...

Pyrogenic carbon, a carbon rich material produced when biomass burns or is converted into biochar, is widely found in soils, sediments, and aquatic environments around the world. Scientists have long ...

1 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 2 Environmental Engineering Program, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 3 ...

Areas of the Amazon forest with higher concentration of soil pyrogenic carbon, a material produced by the burning of vegetation centuries or millennia ago, show an enhanced resistance to droughts, a ...

Wacker has started up a $150 million pyrogenic silica plant at its site in Charleston, Tennessee. The 13,000-metric-ton-per-year plant uses by-product tetrachlorosilane from Wacker’s 3-year-old ...

Wacker Chemie plans to spend $150 million to build a pyrogenic silica plant at its facility in Charleston, Tenn. Set to open in the first half of 2019, the plant will have annual capacity of about ...