News | 28/03/2025
...n-rich soil improvers compost, digestate, manure, and biochar improved both topsoil carbon and microbial indicators.
Is Biomass Availability a Limiting Factor?
How feasible is large-scale...
News | 22/08/2023
...ut important changes in the soil microbiome so that effects of organic additives such as compost or biochar (stable, inert carbon) on the soil microbiome can be masked by the timing of sampling.
News | 17/08/2021
...l scale. In their new substrate compositions, they tested the power of green compost, plant fibers, biochar and chitin, among other things. The sustainable mixtures were examined in terms of their ...
News | 22/06/2021
Biochar
Bart Vandecaesteele tells Belgian TV: “On the one hand, we want to see if we can use the biochar to replace less sustainable materials like peat or coir in potting soil mixtures. On the other hand, we...
News | 29/01/2021
...rom agricultural, agri-food and fishery activities, which are processed into compost, plant fibers, biochar and chitin. The final ambition is to arrive at technically sophisticated and economically...
News | 21/09/2020
...okos en steenwol. In het eerste werkpakket werden organische reststromen verwerkt tot onder andere biochar, chitine, vezels en CO2-meststof. Er werd vertrokken uit 5 lokale reststromen uit de land-...
News | 01/06/2020
...en Botrytis cinerea. Voorbeelden van deze duurzame bouwstenen zijn: compost, plantenvezels, biochar en chitine. Deze bouwstenen worden geproduceerd uit reststromen die lokaal beschikbaar zijn. Daar...
News | 14/11/2019
... produced within the project on the basis of various techniques and materials. ECN-TNO has produced biochars based on spent cultivation substrates and other materials, while Université de Lille and...
News | 18/06/2019
Biochar has a lot of potential as an alternative, sustainable valorization option for existing residual biomass
Biochar from residual biomass is a valuable and sustainable end product that can be used as a soil improver: this is the premise of the BASTA project.
News | 02/07/2018
In July, Horti-BlueC starts up. ILVO plays a coordinating role, and will focus on the potential of biochar, chitin from shrimp and plant fibers in new mixtures for growing substrates.
The focus of the...
News | 01/06/2018
... of green residual flows.
Within Horti-BlueC we want to upgrade chitin from shrimp shells and biochar based on, for example, used cultivation substrates or green residual flows into a soil im...