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Record W4407241091 · doi:10.1016/j.clwas.2025.100227

Paving the way for biochar production, supply chain, and applications toward a sustainable future

2025· article· en· W4407241091 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueCleaner Waste Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicRecycling and Waste Management Techniques
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of NewfoundlandConcordia University
FundersConcordia University
KeywordsBiocharProduction (economics)Supply chainBusinessSustainable productionEnvironmental scienceNatural resource economicsEnvironmental economicsWaste managementEconomicsEngineeringMicroeconomicsPyrolysisMarketing

Abstract

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Biochar, which results from biomass pyrolysis in the absence of oxygen, has been considered a beneficial substance that can enhance environmental benefits. This paper discusses its manufacturing, issues, and uses while focusing on the circular economy aspect. In the past, biochar was used to enhance soil fertility and water treatment; nowadays, it is used for the supply of energy, cleaning up pollutants, and construction materials. The use of new feedstocks like algae and invasive plant species enhances its production and applications. In addition, with the help of digital technology, the biochar supply chain has been improved, thus making it productive and efficient. Biochar emerges as a key factor and beneficiary of green technology advancements that have catalyzed applications in batteries and supercapacitors within energy storage systems. Furthermore, biochar can play a role in the sequestration and reuse of greenhouse gases as well as the reduction of pollution to the environment. Lastly, this research provides an overview of how biochar production and usage, in the face of global environmental challenges and dilemmas, should be enhanced and developed to support sustainable industrialization. • Biochar’s applications are expanding into new areas toward a sustainable future. • Innovative feedstocks enhance biochar’s efficiency in capturing pollutants. • Digital technologies optimize the biochar supply chain, reducing costs and emissions. • Biochar has potential as a sustainable material for energy storage. • Biochar contributes to pollution control within the circular economy framework.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.425
Threshold uncertainty score0.355

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it