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US 2022/0204420 A1Published application
Mineral solubilizing microorganism infused biochars
AssigneeCarbon Technology Holdings, LLC
InventorsRichard W. Belcher, Han Suk Kim, Brian Buege, Ronald A. Sills
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Abstract
A treated biochar comprising a porous carbonaceous particle that has been treated and mixed with a media containing a mineral solubilizing microorganism, whereby the porous carbonaceous particle after mixing has retained the mineral solubilizing microorganism.
Claims3
A method for integrating a microbial community with a biochar particle, the method selected from the group consisting of:
- while under vacuum, pulling the microbial solution through a treated biochar bed that is resting on a membrane filter;
- spraying a microbial solution on top of a treated biochar bed;
- lyophilizing a microbial solution and then blending said freeze dried solution with the treated biochar;
- again infusing, as defined previously, the treated biochar with a microbial solution;
- adding treated biochar to a growth medium, inoculating with the microbe, and incubating to allow the microbe to grow in said biochar containing medium;
- infusing, as defined previously, the biochar with a food source and then introducing the substrate infused biochar to a microbe and incubating to allow the microbes to grow;
- blending commercially available strains in dry form with treated biochar;
- adding the treated biochar to a microbial solution and then centrifuging at a high speed, potentially with a density gradient in order to promote the biochar to spin down with the microbes;
- densely packing a column with treated biochar and then gravity flowing a microbial solution through the column and possibly repeating this multiple times;
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- adding the microbe to a solution based binder that is well known to enter the treated biochar pores and then adding said solution to the treated biochar.
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