Hydroxytyrosol Recovery From Olive Mill Wastewater: Process Optimizationn and Development of a Pilot Plant

摘要

The olive oil industry is a sector of high relevance in the economy of the European Union; indeed, three quarters of the world production is concentrated in the South Europe. Unfortunately, the commonly used milling techniques generate huge amounts of highly polluting olive mill wastewater (OMWW) as a side-product. If released in the environment, untreated OMWW have a detrimental impact on land and water because of the large amount of phytotoxic phenolic compounds contained. At the same time, du