[Stoves] Activated carbon for mercury clean-up

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Thanks Josh for the update and link. It looks like an expanding field of
discovery.

 

Regards

Crispin

 

 

FYI - at Univ. of Colorado-Boulder (USA) we have a consortium of scientists
and engineers studying "activated-carbon-type" applications of biochar (e.g.
generated from cookstoves, gasifiers, kilns, etc.). 

We focus primarily on water quality and water treatment applications - e.g.
decentralized household and community water treatment systems, in-situ
permeable barriers for groundwater remediation, storm water runoff, etc. We
look mainly at sorption of synthetic organic compounds (e.g. pesticides,
pharmaceuticals, fuel compounds, etc.), and to a lesser extent metals and
inorganics (e.g. Hg is well sorbed as you indicate below....). 

See a recent write-up by the IBI for more info and links:

http://www.biochar-international.org/profile/water_filtration

and feel free to contact me any time!

Josh

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