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Biochar Application for Mitigation of Coastal and Marine Pollution
Summary
Researchers investigated biochar as a technology for reducing microplastic contamination in coastal and marine environments, conducting experimental and computational modeling studies to assess the adsorption performance of biochar -- particularly algal waste-derived biochar -- in removing microplastics from wastewater discharge before it reaches marine ecosystems.
Biochar has gained significant attention in recent years due to its several environmentally friendly advantages. This study has presented an experimental and computational modeling related to biochar application in order to reduce coastal and marine pollution caused by microplastic (MP) contamination. The biochar adsorption process could be a possible, innovative, and cheaper technology for reducing pollution loads in marine ecosystems. From this perspective, this study has investigated the mitigation potential of MP pollution resulting from wastewater discharge using biochar application in the marine environment. This study has mainly recommended that biomass wastes originating from marine ecosystems such as algal wastes would be used as biochar feedstock. This study mainly concentrated on pollution reduction using this novel biochar type. Also, a new estimation tool has been developed for MP reduction in marine and coastal areas due to wastewater discharge. The validation of the recommended model has been performed using the Monte Carlo simulation. According to the simulation results, the model is meaningful in the range of 0.97–0.98 of R 2 .