EUROCHAR

Biochar for Carbon sequestration and large-scale removal of greenhouse gases (GHG) from the atmosphere

Coordinatore	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE    more  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Antonio Cognome: Raschi Email: send email Telefono: 39055033711 Fax: 39055308910
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Italy [IT]
Totale costo	3˙502˙535 €
EC contributo	2˙498˙900 €
Programma	FP7-ENVIRONMENT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change)
Code Call	FP7-ENV-2010
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-01-01   -   2014-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE  Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 city: ROMA postcode: 185 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Antonio Cognome: Raschi Email: send email Telefono: 39055033711 Fax: 39055308910	IT (ROMA)	coordinator	518˙000.00
2	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON  Organization address address: Highfield city: SOUTHAMPTON postcode: SO17 1BJ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Yan Cognome: Qiao Email: send email Telefono: +44 2380593907 Fax: +44 2380596841	UK (SOUTHAMPTON)	participant	413˙500.00
3	UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6  Organization address address: Place Jussieu 4 city: PARIS postcode: 75252 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Elena Cognome: Billi-Rizza Email: send email Telefono: +33 1 44272371 Fax: +33 1 44277484	FR (PARIS)	participant	413˙000.00
4	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE  Organization address address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Brooke Cognome: Alasya Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7594 1181 Fax: +44 207 594 1418	UK (LONDON)	participant	327˙900.00
5	LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI BOLZANO  Organization address address: PIAZZA UNIVERSITA 1 city: BOLZANO postcode: 39100 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Giustino Cognome: Tonon Email: send email Telefono: 390471000000 Fax: 390471000000	IT (BOLZANO)	participant	251˙500.00
6	MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVERSITAET HALLE-WITTENBERG  Organization address address: UNIVERSITAETSPLATZ 10 city: HALLE (Saale) postcode: 6099 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Sigrid Cognome: Köhne Email: send email Telefono: +49 345 5521303 Fax: +49 345 5527225	DE (HALLE (Saale))	participant	198˙500.00
7	CS Carbon Solutions Deutschland GmbH  Organization address address: Albert-Einstein-Ring 1 city: Kleinmachnow postcode: 14532 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Volker Cognome: Zwing Email: send email Telefono: 4933200000000 Fax: 4933200000000	DE (Kleinmachnow)	participant	192˙300.00
8	Advanced Gasification Technology  Organization address address: Via G. Cesari 1/A city: Cremona postcode: 26100 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Alessandro Cognome: Pozzi Email: send email Telefono: 393458000000 Fax: 390318000000	IT (Cremona)	participant	184˙200.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'In the context of climate change mitigation, technologies for removing the CO2 from the atmosphere are key challenges. The transfer of carbon from the atmosphere into useful carbon deposits is currently one promising option.Transferring biomass to carbon-rich materials with potential mega-scale application is an option to sequester carbon from plant material, taking it out of the short-term carbon cycle and therefore binding CO2 efficiently and even in a useful, productive, way into longer term non-atmospheric carbon pools. EuroChar will investigate carbon sequestration potentials that can be achieved by transforming plant biomass into charcoal (or Biochar) and add that to agricultural soils. Biochar production will be demonstrated using thermochemical (TC) or hydrothermal carbonization processes (HTC) that can produce energy and store 15 to 20% of the Carbon originally contained in the biomass. Detailed ISO-accredited whole Life Cycle Assessment will be carried out according to the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook on LCA, for both TC and HTC production systems to evaluate the net Carbon sequestration capacity associated to Biochar production. Physico-chemical properties of Biochar will be analysed in a series of laboratory studies that will use standardized analytical protocols, and a specific phyto-toxicity test will be made using molecular approaches involving a model plant. Part of the study will also address the short versus long-term stability of Biochar using recently produced and aged charcoal samples coming from archaeological sites. Specific investigations will also be made to assess Biochar decomposition using CO2-efflux measurements from 13C labelled Biochar. Three large-scale field experiments will be made in Italy, France and UK to analyse “realistic scale” application of Biochar. Upscaling will be considered by scenario analyses that will both consider the potential C-sequestration actually achievable at the european scale and the climate warming balance associated to carbon sequestration and potential changes in the mean surface albedo, due to massive use of Biochar as soil amendant. A number of stakeholders will be involved to review project’s activities. For this the EuroChar Stakeholder Committee will be created and met periodically during annual project meetings. Dissemination activities will be implemented to make project’s results available to a wider audience and the media.'