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This chapter deals with the life cycle of trees where the process of using manufactured wood waste in ecotechnologies takes place, thereby recovering valuable components of a wood product (e.g., biochar) and converting some waste into raw materials (e.g., using ash for reclaiming soil). Two products of the thermal treatment of wood, including a solid product of wood pyrolysis (biochar) and its full oxidation product (ash), as well as their use in environmental protection engineering and agriculture, are examined. Recent years have seen a major increased interest in biochar owing to the greater stability of carbon compounds and characteristics improving the properties of soil and forming the advantages of biochar in light of the problems related to climate change and soil fertility. The assessment of the composition of the different types of wood ash is a separate topic. In the case of fire, ash determines changes in the chemical composition of soil. Along with an increase in the use of biofuel in energetics (in Lithuania in particular), the utilization of combustion products raises environmental concerns. The chapter describes the concentrations of metals in the ash of different trees and environmental risk.
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Baltrėnaitė, E., Baltrėnas, P., Lietuvninkas, A. (2016). Use of Wood Products for Water and Soil Quality Improvement. In: The Sustainable Role of the Tree in Environmental Protection Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25477-7_6
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