“…Several attempts have been made to increase the value of sugarcane bagasse through conversion to biochar by pyrolysis (Hugo, 2010;Jeong et al, 2016). Sugarcane bagasse biochar (SCBB) was produced under various pyrolysis conditions (Ding et al, 2014;Cha et al, 2016;Huang et al, 2015;Li et al, 2016) including temperature (ranged from 250 to <900 C) which affects its porosity and specific surface area (SSA), heating facilities (traditional kilns, muffle furnace, or microwave oven), reaction time (ranged from 20 min to 8 h) and atmosphere (oxygen-limited, vacuum or N 2 -saturated atmosphere). Sugarcane bagasse was used either in its raw state (Hugo, 2010;Ding et al, 2014;Jeong et al, 2016), anaerobically digested (Inyang et al, 2010), or subjected to different physical or chemical treatments to enhance its sorption capacity and/or selectivity (Hafshejani et al, 2016;Noraini et al, 2016;Schwantes et al, 2015).…”