Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

Wastewaters generated from food production and agricultural activities are a source of environmental pollution due to their huge amount of nutrients, organic carbon, nitrogenous organics, inorganics, suspended and dissolved solids, and high biochemical and chemical oxygen demands. Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment: Food Processing Industry provides an update on emerging technologies including oxidative and anaerobic processes (flotation, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, primary settling, secondary activated sludge, anaerobic digestion), ion exchange, membrane-based operations, adsorption/bio-sorption and advanced biological treatment to provide safe and clean water as well as to recover primary resources from food processing wastewaters. In addition, the integration of these technologies will be also considered in the logic of the process intensification strategy. Innovative and affordable solutions are proposed in the field of fruit and vegetable processing industry, fishing industry, meat and poultry industry, dairy production, oil and fat processing.- Includes the latest developments on food wastewaters processing
- Describes emerging technologies for polluting control and recovery of useful products in different areas of agro-food production
- Looks at the integration of conventional and innovative procedures to decrease waste, energy and water use

Section I: Food industry wastewaters: Opportunity, management and high added value compounds recovery1. Wastewaters from agro-food industry: An overview2. Featured technologies in food processing wastewater treatment3. High added-value compounds from agro-food industry wastewaters4. New functional ingredients for industrial applications from food wastewaters5. Advances in food industry wastewaters towards a sustainable bioeconomySection II: Innovative technologies for agro-food industry wastewaters treatment6. High-rate anaerobic processes for agro-food wastewaters treatment: recent trends and advancements or Aerobic/anaerobic processes for agro-food wastewaters treatment7. Membrane-based operations for food processing wastewaters treatment: Biologically active compounds recovery and water reuse8. Food wastewaters treatments by advanced biological processes9. A valorisation approach of food industry wastewaters using microwave-assisted extraction technology (MAE)10. Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) applied to food wastewaters processing11. Advances in ultrasound assisted extraction of biophenols (antioxidant compounds) from agro-food wastewaters12. Enzyme assisted extraction (EAE) of agro-food wastewaters: Processing and applicationSection III: Case studies13. Wastewaters form fruit juices and vegetable processing: valorisation and development of new added value-products14. Integrated advanced technologies for olive mill wastewaters treatment: A biorefinery approach15. Advanced strategies for dairy wastewater treatment: A perspective16. Winery wastewaters treatment for water reuse purpose and bio-molecules recovery