Proxies for use in biochar decay models: Hydropyrolysis, electric conductivity, and H/C_org molar ratio

• Nikolas Hagemann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hagemann@ithaka-institut.org, nikolas.hagemann@agroscope.admin.ch

  Affiliations Environmental Analytics, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland, Ithaka Institute, Arbaz, Switzerland, Ithaka Institute, Goldbach, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8005-9392

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• Hans-Peter Schmidt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ithaka Institute, Arbaz, Switzerland

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• Thomas D. Bucheli,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Analytics, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9971-3104

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• Jannis Grafmüller,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ithaka Institute, Goldbach, Germany, Institute for Sustainable Energy Systems, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Offenburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-9537

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• Silvio Vosswinkel,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Institute of Thermal-, Environmental- and Resources’ Process Engineering, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany, Eurofins Umwelt-Ost GmbH, Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, Germany

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• Volker Herdegen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Thermal-, Environmental- and Resources’ Process Engineering, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0031-8484

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• William Meredith,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2978-1608

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• Clement N. Uguna,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Colin E. Snape

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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