Assoc. Prof./ Ph. D supervisor  Tao Zhang

China Agricultural University,

College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China

张涛副教授，中国农业大学资源与环境科学学院

Research Area: Waste disposal and resource utilization

Title: Biomass Stabilization: Phosphorus Fixation and Utilization

题目：生物质稳定化: 磷的固定和利用

Abstarct: One of the reality before us today is the increasingly exhausted of phosphorus (P) resource. Animal manure, produced from livestock and poultry production, contains large amount of P. The treatment of P recovery from animal manure is regarding as a promising technical for food security. Recently, numbers methods to treat waste agricultural biomass have been considered. Amongst, pyrolysis to generate biochar has attracted attention. Biochar, has a rich surface chemistry, interesting nanostructures, abundant oxygen-containing functional groups, and a large porous structure, regarded as a potential sorbent. Due to the limitation of P-solubilization and selectivity recovery processes caused by the existing of organic phosphorus, sparingly soluble P, and many other kinds of substances, we have conducted a series of explorations on phosphorus solubilization and selectivity adsorption. For P solubilization, organic phosphorus and sparingly soluble P can be decomposed, dissolved, and released under thermal conversion (ultrasound, hydrothermal process, microwaves digestion). Coupling degradation and oxidation process, such as microwaves digestion and NaOH (or H2O2-HCl), ultrasound/H2O2, and hydrothermal assisted process have been developed. For P fixation, cation loaded biochar, such as magnesium modified corn biochar, ferric oxide hydrate modified biochar, calcium modified biochar, can be synthesized to enhance P adsorption selectivity. The adsorption isotherm, adsorption kinetics, thermodynamics have been investigated. The P saturated adsorbed modified biochar could continually release P in soil environment and its fertilizer property has been analysis.