How can so much world‑changing potential be packed into such a tiny pellet?
The team of innovators at CarbonCharge Technologies has developed and refined a unique, patented process that produces a net‑shaped biochar pellet comprised almost entirely of elemental carbon. The pellets produced by our proprietary process maintain their monolithic shape without the use of added binders, which impact performance and add to production costs and complexity. Our biochar is permeated by a distinctive three‑dimensional network of interconnected pores, channels, cross‑channels, and fissures unrivaled by other biochars. Significantly, our biochar is produced from a readily available and renewable feedstock source – grass – utilizing a closed system in which all byproducts are recovered and utilized. There is, simply put, no comparable product on the market.
Look closely and you'll see why nothing else on the market compares.
CarbonCharge's raw feedstock pellets.
CarbonCharge's biochar pellets.
Enlarged view of CarbonCharge's
net-shaped biochar pellets.
Magnified cross-sectional view of the longitudinal pore system
within CarbonCharge's biochar.
Top image: Magnified view of the three-dimensional network of interconnected pores, channels, and cross-channels created by the net-shaping process.
Bottom image: 10,000x magnification highlighting the interconnected macropores.
Remarkable versatility is baked right in.
Another distinctive benefit of our biochar is that it has a remarkable range of applications. It can be customized according to porosity, surface area, or shape depending on the desired end-use. As a result, our biochar’s potential impact encompasses applications in the agricultural, electrochemical, environmental-remediation, and filtration sectors.
Less need for fertilizer plus better crop yields. Sounds like a win‑win not just for farmers, but for the world.
When produced as a high‑porosity pellet, our biochar is an ideal soil amendment that can be applied using standard farm equipment. The pellets have a sponge‑like capacity to hold soil nutrients and water while providing a protective environment that significantly increases soil microbial populations and the microbial activity essential for plant growth. This conditioning of the soil dramatically reduces the need for fertilizer while increasing crop yield. The pellets thus address the worldwide fertilizer shortage while substantially decreasing major sources of water and air pollution associated with climate change. And unlike biochar in powdered, granular, or chip form, these net‑shaped pellets are not susceptible to being windblown from the soil surface or washed away with rainwater or groundwater.
Reshaping the electrochemical space.
Our unique manufacturing process can produce net‑shaped biochar with a surface area that rivals that of graphene, which is used for electrodes in ultra‑capacitors, lithium‑ion batteries, and other energy‑storage systems. But here's the twist: our biochar is not toxic and its production process does not use toxins. Just imagine the environmental impact a change to our biochar could have. And that's not all. Our biochar can perform the electrocatalytic function in fuel cells and the photocatalytic function in solar cells. CarbonCharge's biochar even has the potential to advance modular battery technology.
Environmental cleanup is calling our name.
Another prime example of our biochar's versatility: its absorptive and adsorptive properties and three‑dimensional infrastructure can be exploited to improve technology and equipment used for atmospheric, soil, and water‑surface/aquatic cleanups. The biochar's sorbent qualities draw in contaminants while its three‑dimensional internal structure enables it to retain bacteria that can support biological remediation of the pollutants.
The air and water love our biochar, too.
Thanks to the CarbonCharge production process, our biochar can also be customized for use in both large‑scale and consumer‑grade water‑filtration systems, as well as in high‑efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters. The adsorptive quality of our biochar provides a highly effective means for removing unwanted odors. The biochar has tremendous potential for use in the capture of gaseous emissions from various industrial sources such as incinerators, waste‑to‑energy systems, kilns, biomass‑ and coal‑fired boilers, waste‑water treatment facilities, and agricultural‑production systems. On the consumer side, our biochar is highly effective for scrubbing the air of unwanted household odors from, for example, cat litter.
An ideal way to generate carbon offsets and credits.
CarbonCharge Technologies' biochar pellets are an optimal carbon sink. They are produced from vegetation that otherwise would decay and produce greenhouse gases. Once placed in soil, they provide long‑term carbon sequestration and interment while also enhancing the growth of plants that will, over time, absorb significant additional carbon dioxide. Since the pellets are inert and have no added binders, the amount of carbon being sequestered and interred can be measured and quantified easily for calculation of carbon‑credit and ‑offset values. In addition, the gaseous and semi‑solid byproducts of the biochar-production process can be re‑used, which further enhances the value of the credits and offsets.
There's a happier, healthier world of possibilities ahead.
When you add up all the benefits, the growth potential for the biochar market is immense. Consider the potential in just the agricultural sector. The rapidly growing biochar soil-amendment market currently clocks in at under 2% of the more than $200 billion worldwide fertilizer market. Given the world's urgent need to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers, the potential and need for the increased use of biochar could not be more obvious. Clearly, the surface has just been scratched for biochar uses in the U.S. and around the globe, and the upside is virtually limitless.