Soil-Treatment

Create Terra Preta

Over centuries some farmland delivers rich harvest without any exhaustion. The crucial factor of those first-class soils is Terra Preta (means “black soil”). Terra Preta emerges from the oxidation of charcoal. Due to the wet and warm climate in those regions, such as the Amazonas, biomass is quickly transformed into charcoal which oxidizes and combines with surrounded clay and silt.

Hence, the difference between conventional soil and the so called Terra Preta is CO2, stored in charcoal which is all over in that soil. The charcoal acts like fertilizer in depleted soil. It has a carbon content of 80% - 90%.

Amongst others, BERAHN®-Carbon has the same characteristics as that charcoal in higher quality: it is created in a flameless oxidation process, the so called pyrolysis, and has a carbon content of clearly over 80%.


Reduce tire landfills and improve farmland

By adding BERAHN®-Carbon to exhausted farmland, not only the soil will be improved but also the water household will be regulated. The high absorption and adsorption properties support the stabilization of the treated land.

A comprehensive application of BERAHN®-Carbon for soil-treatment will help to make farmland fertile and productive, reduce fire clearance within the rain forest, and will help to reduce starvation in the world.


Reduce CO2 emissions

Another aspect which has to be manifestly highlighted is the exceeding reduction of CO2 emissions. Among other things, CO2 results from burning of used car tires, rubber, and biomass. However, once the CO2 is stored in carbon it cannot pollute the environment and change the world climate, since it takes centuries to free the gas. The extraordinary reduction of CO2 emissions becomes particularly clear if one takes into consideration that 1 metric ton of carbon stores about 3 metric tons of CO2.