Objective The general aim of the proposed project is to set up treatment systems of olive oil mill waste water that allows to obtain both high COD removal and energy recovery in the form of methane and separately of ethanol. Olive oil mill waste water will be processed for energy recovery both directly and after microbiological and/or chemical and physical treatments to reduce the concentration of toxic compounds. The specific objective of the BIOWARE project can be summarized as follows: - to carry out a detailed assessment and a critical review of existing technical and scientific knowledge on purification and energy recovery from olive oil waste water. - to characterize olive oil waste water, with special regard to the extraction technologies and olive variety, in order to establish the factors determining effluent fluctuations; - to plan and carry out a comprehensive set of experimental investigations at laboratory level aimed at selecting particular metabolic capabilities from olive oil waste water and existing depuration plants; - to characterize the selected microbial strains and consortia to use as inocula for pilot plants; - to combine different metabolic capabilities in order to detoxify inhibitory compounds and to produce methane and separately ethanol; - to realize, energetically independent, pilot plants producing methane and eventually ethanol.Olive oil is a typical Mediterranean product and its nutritional and economic importance is well known. The waste water from extraction process is highly pollutant due to the high organic carbon content, most of which is present in aromatic compounds (phenols and polyphenols). These compounds are hardly degraded by microflora; in fact most of the microorganisms are sensitive to the inhibitory activity of these components. Moreover the technologies aimed at olive oil waste water purification are inadequate : anaerobic digestion allows only a 80-90% COD removal, insufficient to permit discharges of effluents into the environment, and physical and chemical technologies are not cost effective because of the seasonal character of production and the small size of extraction plants. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesengineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactorsengineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdesalinationreverse osmosisnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcoholsnatural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds Programme(s) FP3-AIR - Specific research and technological development and demonstration programme (EEC) in the field of agriculture and agro-industry, including fisheries, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 323 - Transformation and conservation-biological processing Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Università degli Studi di Milano Address Via celoria 12 20133 Milano Italy See on map EU contribution No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Chemio Research and Analysis Srl Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via cussignacco 39 33040 Pradamano (udine) See on map Other funding No data INST. NACIONAL DE ENGENHARIA E TECNOLOGIA INDUSTRIAL Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Estrada do paco do lumiar 1699 Lisboa See on map Other funding No data International Centre for Theoretical and Applied Ecology Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Vittorio veneto 34170 Gorizia See on map Other funding No data NAIAS SCIENTIFIC ANALYTICAL LAB. S.A. Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address Neosikon str 18536 Piraeus See on map Other funding No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via delle scienze 208 33100 Udine See on map Other funding No data
