Treatment of Olive Oil Production Waste Waters

Document Type

Contribution to Books

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Handbook of Environment and Waste Management: Air and Water Pollution Control

Abstract

© 2012 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Olive oil is an important product of olive tree. There is number of health benefits that can be taken into account of olive oil. However, by-products of olive oil mill effluent pose a serious environmental problem. The technological topics covered are: historical importance of olive oil, production of olive oil, production processes of olive oil, wastewater characterization of olive oil mill wastewaters, treatment technologies, costs, pilot-scale studies, effluent limitations, performance standards, pretreatment standards, and terminologies

DOI

10.1142/9789814327701_0022

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