Last year Dr Szabolcs Pap attended the 29th European Biosolids & Bioresources Conference and Exhibition (EBBC) as a representative of EBNet’s Biochars for Pollution Prevention WG, to participate in sessions on biochar applications in the water industry: for his report, see HERE.
This year he returned to the 30th EBBC event held in Manchester from 10-12 July, to present his research on ‘Phosphorus recovery from wastewater with biosolids biochar’. Although BBSRC and other funders do not regard biochar applications that involve purely physico-chemical mechanisms as a biotechnology, there are clear synergies with microbially-mediated systems, as noted in the joint workshop organised by the WG and supported by EBNet and our sister-NIBB BBNet. And of course these links are even stronger when the base material is wastewater biosolids: see his recent paper below.
Dr Pap said, “I found the event exceptionally useful for gaining insights, connecting with industrial and academic experts, and advancing discussions around sustainable biosolids management, advanced thermal conversation technologies, biochar and resource recovery”.
Insights into phosphate removal and recovery from wastewater using biosolids biochar: Pyrolysis optimisation, mechanistic and column studies. Pap, S., Karmann, C., Thompson, T., McConnell, R., Kennedy, T. and Taggart, M.A., 2025. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 75, p.107954.
