G'day All, David House's book "The biogas handbook" has a bit about carbon and charcoal and he does not seem to expect any assistance, possibly inhibition. I guess a lot depends on how the carbon is prepared and what the substrate may be.
All the best, HOOROO Mr. Paul Harris, Room 202 Charles Hawker Building, Faculty of Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, PMB 1, Glen Osmond SA 5064 Ph : +61 8 8303 7880 Fax : +61 8 8303 4386 Roseworthy Campus, Ph : +61 8 8303 7929 mailto:paul.har...@adelaide.edu.au http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/paul.harris CRICOS Provider Number 00123M This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. -----Original Message----- From: back40 [mailto:bac...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 7 October 2011 6:03 AM To: paul.har...@adelaide.edu.au; Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification Subject: Re: [Gasification] [Digestion] Karve connecting Biochar and Biogas I wonder if this is relevant: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/10/05/soil-carbon/ "Michael Schmidt, a co-author of the Nature paper from the University of Zurich, has already found that biochar, which is charred material from wildfires or a kiln, is not stable as previously believed. It also readily decomposes. Some scientists had believed that biochar could be used to sequester carbon, but this may not be the case." _______________________________________________ Digestion mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address digest...@bioenergylists.org to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/digestion_lists.bioenergylists.org for more information about digestion, see Beginner's Guide to Biogas http://www.adelaide.edu.au/biogas/ and the Biogas Wiki http://biogas.wikispaces.com/
