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Biochar Malaysia 2010

By: Sarah Carter
 
Sarah Carter from University of Edinburgh (UoE) one of the grantees of Bio-Innovations Asia participated in the Biochar workshop on 25.03.10 at the University of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 
It had a varied programme which included the potential of biochars to remediate polluted soils from Dr. Hale and Cornelissen from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, and some novel methods of passive sampling for contaminants.
 
A summary of the networks for biochar research in SE Asia was given by Trevor Richards from the IBI SE Asia group.
 
A TLUD (version by Anderson) was demonstrated by the workshop host Dr Bachmann from the University of Kuala Lumpur who also discussed the production of biochar from household to industrial scale.