NOVEL MATERIALS AND METHODS TO INCREASE SOIL CARBON

One of the major goals of the project is to enable carbon-negative biomass utilization by developing an economically viable process to capture CO2 emissions from biomass processing via accelerated CO2 mineralization of alkaline materials, eliminating the need for geologic CO2 disposal. A second major goal is to increase soil carbon and improve soil health via the use of the mineralized products from the CO2 capture step as soil amendments.