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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...