Treatment of Olive Oil Production Waste Waters

Taner Yonar, Berna Kiril Mert, Kadir Kestioglu, Yung Tse Hung

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    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

    Original languageAmerican English
    Title of host publicationHandbook of Environment and Waste Management: Air and Water Pollution Control
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 1 2012

    Keywords

    • Effluent limitations
    • Glossary
    • Olive oil
    • Olive oil production processes
    • Performance standards
    • Pretreatment standards
    • Waste treatment
    • Wastewater characterization

    Disciplines

    • Civil and Environmental Engineering

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