Processi di biorefinery: recupero di secondary chemicals building blocks da scarti agroindustriali liquidi (acque di vegetazione delle olive)

The debate on environmental problems is leading toward a new consciousness about the need of a sustainable waste management and an Integrated Product Policy. Agro-food wastes could be an abundant and viable sources for obtaining green chemicals with high economical value as well as a renewable raw materials throughout bio-refining processes. Olive-oil milling waste water (OMW) is considered one of the most polluting agro-food residue due to both seasonal production and high organic load (about 15%), which may be valorised by an integrated process in which natural chemicals, as biophenols for the nutraceutical market, can be recovered trough an adsorption/desorption process based on polymeric resins